Tag: Thailand - Page 3
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Thai Elephant Gets New Prosthetic Leg, Joyfully Throws Dirt
(Images: AP)We knew the day of Robo Dumbo would come, we just didn't know it would come so soon. Actually, we couldn't be happier for Motola. After losing her foot to a landmine a decade ago while working in a Thai logging camp, the 48-year-old elephant
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Neat Little Shipping Container Prefab Built in Bangkok
Thai designer Chutayaves Sinthuphan of Site-Specific first made a splash in these pages with a demonstration project at a home show; now they show us a neat little one-bedroom house built from two 20 foot containers designed for hot, humid
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China's Hydroelectric Plans to Damn the Mekong Threaten Millions
A few short weeks ago it came out the China had plans in the works to place 20 hydroelectric dams on the upper
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Cement Makers, Worldwide, Volunteer 25% Cutback in CO2 Emissions
In the back and forth of setting emission cut-back 'best practices,' it's a common response for industry, sensing stingent regulations are just around the corner, to 'volunteer'
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World Population Growth Good News: Asia-Pacific Fertility Rates Starting to Decline
Undeniably human population growth is at the root of pretty much every single environmental problem we currently face. At the
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Green Container Housing Demo in Thailand
Designers Site-Specific and Buatalah Studio were asked to design an exhibition around the theme of ‘Green Home Effects’ for a Bangkok home show. According to Site-Specific's website, "to build an earth-friendly house is not as simple as placing some
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Buddhist Temple Built from Beer Bottles
Fifty years ago the Heineken Beer company looked at reshaping its beer bottle to be useful as a building block. It never happened, so Buddhist monks from Thailand's Sisaket province took matters into their own hands and collected a million bottles to
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Abundant Hydro-Electric Potential Lures Corporations to the Mekong River
Using rivers to do work is one of the oldest forms of power—whether directly powering grain mills or in creating electricity on either a small or gigantic scale—so I suppose it doesn't really
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Upcycled Art, Thailand's Organic Princess and Summer-ey Tom's Shoes
An eco-conscientious artist creates mosaics using discarded take-out menus, business cards, junk mail and other paper trash.
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Quote Of The Day: From David Doniger
""To use short-term economics as an excuse not to tackle global warming is opportunism," said David Doniger, climate policy chief at
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Young Asians Come Clean About Not Feeling Green
While children in some parts of the world count the environment as being among their top concerns, one study claims that Asia’s all-important next generation of global citizens are not nearly as concerned with the need for environmental protection as
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Thailand Gets the Green Light
Watch out, Japan: there's a new player in town gunning for your green title. Dubbed the "Detroit of Asia" in recent years for its efforts to promote itself as a regional automotive powerhouse, Thailand is moving forward with an ambitious plan to
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Dy-rection Line: A Small, Movable Kitchen
Taking the "less is more" ethos to a bit of an extreme, Thai designer Wiwat Pitakpongsanit's "Dy-rection Line" kitchen is a place to cook, serve, meet, party, eat, and work. The range, oven, sink, table, three stools and extendo-countertop are all
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Thailand Seed Clouds to Alleviate Drought
Scientists are meeting in Bangkok this week to discuss global warming and possible methods to cut greenhouse gas emissions. Thailand has every reason to be proactive about cutting emissions; it's the world's largest exporter of rice and natural rubber.
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China's Panda Poo To Make Paper
Last week, as the US raised a stink about China's paper imports, placing high tariffs on certain glossy papers, researchers in Sichuan province announced they were looking to manufacture a new breed of the stuff--made out of panda poop. According to
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Still Troubled about Teak
We have written before about the evils of virgin teak here, and expressed reservations about reclaimed teak before as well, but damned if I can find it. I think that the reservations were confirmed in the New York
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The Fair Labor Association Want You
Well, they do, if you reckon you'd make a decent Sustainable Compliance Program Manager, all set to implement their new "sustainable compliance methodology for improving factory conditions around the world." Sounds like you'll be catching up
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Osisu Design's Beautiful Reclaimed Teak Furniture
The Thai architect and product designer Singh Intrachooto has created a beautiful series of furniture using scraps of teak wood. The wood is sourced from reclaimed trees uprooted to build roads and from off cuts of wood left over from Intrachooto's
