Tag: Indonesia - Page 6
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Four Worst Places to be an Endangered Species
The hard truth is there are no international rules set in stone telling a country how it should treat its wildlife. There are 194 recognized countries in the world (not including
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Ramsar Wetland Convention Meeting in Korea: Peat, Bogs And Poetry
Photo from Indonesia: Greenpeace activists working with locals to halt drainage by constructing dams on peatlands. This will prevent the peatland from drying out and releasing carbon dioxide into the atmosphere.
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Nature Inspires Art in San Diego
Watching the world around us and the changes big and small that occur all the time, sometimes you just have to do something to reflect what you are experiencing. It is this need to create that brings
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Never Feed Them After Midnight! Gremlins look-alikes Pygmy Tarsiers Found after Being Hidden from View for 80 Years!
In our own species, trends from the 1980's have come back into fashion recently—witness the reemergence of leg warmers—and now the animal kingdom is getting in on the '80's thing too, as Pygmy Tarsiers, animals closely resembling
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Greenpeace Activists Detain Palm Oil Tanker: Where Do Readers Stand on Direct Action?
I’m not entirely sure that this is the type of civil disobedience Al Gore was talking about at the Clinton Global Initiative meeting back in
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Seaweed Biodiesel Cooperation Between S. Korea, Indonesia Announced
Italian biodiesel producers are interested in it; the UK’s Crown Estate has expressed support as well. Now Indonesia is looking to capitalize on its abundant supplies of seaweed and turn it into
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Greenpeace's "Forests for Climate" Tour reaches Indonesia
The Greenpeace ship, Esperanza, arrived in Jakarta on Halloween calling for urgent action to protect forests in order to save the global climate and bearing new evidence of the mounting threat to Papua’s forests. Greenpeace is calling on the central
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Sumatra's Remaining Forests Get Government Pledge of Protection
We may be squandering our children's natural inheritance, losing up to $5 trillion a year in natural capital, by chopping down the world's forests, but the Indonesian government has finally done something to stop the
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5 Ways Geothermal Power is Heating Up Around the World
Last week when the US Geothermal Energy Association released it's biannual report which stated that geothermal power had grown by 20% so far this year , it cemented what TreeHugger said over a year ago: Geothermal power is the poor
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Indonesian Tofu Makers Turn Waste into Biogas: Video Clip
This is a short clip, but I love it. It combines so many of the things dear to my heart: Community-based solutions, renewable energy, and (of course) tofu. Yes, I’m a self-confessed tofu lover. Many may call me crazy but there it is.
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Endangered Elephants and Tigers Get to Keep More of Their Sumatran Habitat Thanks to Government National Park Decision
Most of the time when the subject of Indonesia and wildlife comes across my desk it tends to be about the dire plight of the Orangutan. Today brings better news: The Southeast Asian
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Malaysia and Indonesia To Expand Domestic Palm Oil Biodiesel as Commodity Price Drops
I know I finger-wag at Indonesia and Malaysia quite frequently over the way in which palm oil is cultivated. Not only are the plantations such a severe threat to Orangutan habitat that the animals could be the first great ape (in
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Orangutans' Fingers Mutilated by Oil Palm Plantation Workers: More on the Ape-Palm Oil Connection
We've written about the connections between deforestation, the possible extinction of the orangutan, and the expansion of plantation-based palm oil production a number of times. So often in fact that I apologize if some readers
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Indonesia Needs Jatropha Subsidies To Boost Market, Say Researchers
Land cleared for an oil palm plantation in Indonesia. While ultimately this land will be planted again, the carbon sequestration potential of the resultant agricultural land is radically reduced in comparison to the forest that was once there. Photo by
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Biofuel Cooperation Discussed Between Indonesia, Brazil
Indonesia, the world's largest producer of palm oil, and Brazil , one of the most successful places where ethanol has been produced from sugarcane, have agreed to
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Orangutan Could be First Great Ape to Become Extinct
According to new research published in the conservation journal Oryx, due to rapid declines in population because of habitat loss the orangutan could be the first of the great apes to become extinct.
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Exploring Southeast Asia's Geothermal Potential
Indonesia and the Philippines need help. And not because they lack the geothermal energy capacity: No, quite simply, it's because they're having trouble accessing it. The two Asian countries, both of which are located in the
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Metropolis on Singgih Kartono
We loved the idea of Singgih Kartono's wooden radios, made by hand in Indonesia to "redefine the relationship of the user between the product" and revitalize craft industries and local skills, while using local sustainable materials. (We even put it in
