In the follow report by Channel NewsAsia, some households are currently placed on trial with a new device to monitor their power consumption. The aim is to raise the awareness and to drive across the point to reduce their power consumption. And perhaps, the most important persuasive point of all is to save on their [...]

Japanese women dressed in yukata or summer casual kimono, sprinkle recycled water on the hot road as a part of nationwide campaign to ease the urban heat along a street in Tokyo`s Ginza shopping district on Sunday. Temperatures had soared to 34 deg C in the Japanese capital.
Source: The Statesman & The Straits Times
Image: The [...]

The annual Kemang Festival will kick off Saturday with various attractions and stalls to charm Jakartans.
The festival’s project leader, Deasy Sugiharti, said this year’s event would feature campaigns from Jakarta’s green communities, such as Bike to Work, Caring Community and Gerombolan Peduli Sampah (Trash Care Community).
“This year’s theme is Hijau Kemangku (My Green Kemang). For [...]

Beijing is still troubled over air quality and pollution. Despite implementing various policies to improve the air quality of the city, haze has prevailed. Some have attributed the haze to the weather. Perhaps all the measures taken to counter air pollution have not really removed the root of the problem.  Below is a report from [...]

With animal feed and fertilizer prices at record highs, Japan’s food recycling industry is seeing greater demand than ever before for pellets for pigs and poultry made from recycled leftovers.
Japan disposes of some 20 millions tonnes of food waste a year, five times as much as world food aid to the poor in 2007. The [...]

The steadily ascending inflation and the resultant rise in prices of items of daily use in this hill station has become a source of serious concern not only to the people belonging to various strata of the society but also to the conservationists and green campaigners.
Decreasing supply
Pointing out that unlike in the plains the need [...]

The world’s wetlands, threatened by development, dehydration and climate change, could release a planet-warming “carbon bomb” if they are destroyed, ecological scientists said on Sunday.
Wetlands contain 771 billion tons of greenhouse gases, one-fifth of all the carbon on Earth and about the same amount of carbon as is now in the atmosphere, the scientists said [...]

In a report by Jessica Marshall of Discovery News, researchers are looking into the attributes that grant whales and dolphins the speed and agility in the waters.  They are working to translate these attributes to benefit manmade technologies. Marshall mentioned how Frank Fish of West Chester University in Pennsylvania began his study on the humpback [...]