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Wend Magazine: Paperless People-Powered Adventure
Our apologies to Ian Marshall of Wend magazine. Aeons ago Ian wrote to us telling us about the sustainable attributes of his mag. Unfortunately his correspondence went missing in the torrent of email we get. Better late than never.
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"Killer Starfish" Eating Up Great Barrier Reef
Recent marine surveys by scientists in the Great Barrier Reef have found that an explosion in the population of the crown-of-thorns starfish has decimated parts of the region’s reefs and are now threatening part of the so-called Coral Triangle – one of
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UNICEF Highlights Concerns Over Children and Climate Change in Bali
According to a report issued just this Wednesday in Bali by UNICEF entitled "Climate Change and Children", deaths from asthma among children could increase nearly 20 per cent by 2016 unless something is done quickly to reduce emissions from vehicles
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Bali Blog #3:- "Atten-Shun!"
I've never been saluted before in my life. Why should I have been? After all, I have never been in the armed forces, nor am I a member of the royal family! So when I was
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The Importance Of Climate Change Adaptation
Last month we wrote about the importance of shifting the agricultural paradigm in developing nations: that "green revolution " of the 1950's and 60's is history - count it gone with the Beats.
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Bali Blogging:- "Excuse Me Mister, Where Are You Going?"
"Hello, where are you going? Where do you come from?" Everyone in Bali greets you in this way: the taxi driver, the shop assistant, and the little children on the
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Bio-Rock: Shock Treatment for Coral Reefs
Given the level of systematic abuse coral reefs have sustained over the last few decades, helping to rehabilitate them by administering - in essence - a form of shock treatment hardly seems like a good idea. Yet that is the technique Thomas Goreau, a
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How Better Conservation Measures Can Help Reduce Poverty
A landmark report released by The Nature Conservancy has demonstrated that effective conservation measures - far from simply benefiting the local biota - can also help alleviate poverty. The study, co-authored by Nature Conservancy policy advisor
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Southeast Asia Paying High Environmental Cost For Palm Oil
Image: Small part of the bigger picture - deforestation in Borneo, Indonesia (World Resources Institute)In its annual Human Development Report released yesterday, the United Nations Development Program (UNDP) highlighted the untenable environmental
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Yamamoto Neoprene: From the Sea, for the Sea
Know how when you buy something new suddenly you begin to see the same thing everywhere, when before you'd never noticed? It's a bit the same here. We post a story on something that seems freshly green and maybe even a bit unique. But lo and behold
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Influencing The Post-Kyoto Framework
Governments, NGOs and even CEOs will soon convene in Bali for the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) Conference of the Parties (COP) for talks on a post-Kyoto framework. Debate in this area seems to be at a tipping point, with carbon
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A Veritable "Mind-Blowing Species Factory" Found Off Indonesian Coast
A barely-explored underwater coral reef has revealed what scientists are calling a "species factory," due to dozens of new exotic species of fish and corals being discovered there in two recent expeditions. Though it lies in an area one tenth the
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Woolies' Eco Claims for Toilet Paper Have a Bad Smell
The brown stuff has hit the spinning thing. Australia's largest supermarket chain has been caught with its pants down over labelling claims that its own branded loo paper is environmentally beneficial. Turns out that Woolworths Select toilet paper is
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Human Planetary Impact in Pictures
As the old clichéd saying goes — a picture is worth a thousand words — so it goes with a set of stunning satellite images, dubbed "Earth from Space," collected by the Guardian and A&C; Black. Displaying man's destructive impact on the planet, the set
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Just Cashews: They're Nuts to Fight For Justice
We apologize for the bad pun in the title, sometimes it's just hard to resist. Fair trade is a familiar concept to our readers. Aside from writing about well-known fair trade commodities like chocolate and coffee, we've also seen posts on everything
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Wooden Radio by By Singgih Kartono
It's so retro looking, two tones of wood, and made by hand by carpenters in an Indonesian village with high unemployment. The designer Singgih Kartono wants to "redefine the relationship of the user between the product" and revitalize craft industries
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Up the Citarum, Without a Paddle
This shocking image is of the Citarum River in Indonesia. Five million people live in the rivers basin, but it carries the waste and pollution from nine million, and a plethora of factories that are far more concerned with profit than the environment.
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Indonesia Fastest Forest Destroyer
The only upside about writing about the destruction of Indonesian and Malaysian rainforests for palm oil plantations is that I get wonderful comments calling me an idiot from the Palm Oil Truth Foundation, a cheesy website run by
