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Revival of Jakarta's Green Map Movement

Revival of Jakarta’s Green Map Movement

After three years in the wilderness, a movement to map out green spaces in Jakarta is back in style, riding the global trend towards an environmentally conscious lifestyle.
“The campaigning stage is over, people are aware of the ‘green’ lifestyle now. Let’s focus on green maps’ effectiveness, power to change, availability and design,” Marco Kusumawijaya, a [...]

Adding a fruity touch to styrofoam waste treatment

Adding a fruity touch to styrofoam waste treatment

Remember the article where a 16 year old Canadian teenager found out a way to disintegrate plastic bags in 3 months? Well this time round, two students from Indonesia, Vici Riyani and Adrienne Trinovia Sulistyo, have found a waste treatment solution for styrofoam.

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100 Ways to Save the Environment

100 Ways to Save the Environment

How many ways can we save the environment? 1 way? Maybe 10?
Well you can have as many as 100 ways to save the environment. The list above shows you how you can go about doing it. Now you can do your part for the environment by practising some of the things that are listed like [...]

Going Green with the Green Hulk

Going Green with the Green Hulk

Here’s what happens if you do not recycle. Beware..

Face the wrath of the Hulk. Who says going green can’t be fun.
Via - The Straits Times

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Quiz: How Green Are You?

Quiz: How Green Are You?

I find this simple green quiz from CNA very interesting. It actually shows how much you know about going green, not in the wider aspect but in your everyday life. The questions are as below.
1) Which type of washing machine is more environmental-friendly when doing laundry?
a. Front-loader
b. Top-loader
2) What’s best when it comes to keeping [...]

Saving Gaia - Effective or Distasteful

Do take a look at the advertisement video below.

What was the first idea that came to your mind?
Well for me, I though that this advertisement was trying to portray the idea of child abuse - With the creepy background music and the use of a mannequin who turned into a boy. Well I couldn’t help [...]

Is it too bright for you?

Is it too bright for you?

Light pollution is proving to be a prevailing problem in modern cities today. One such city is HongKong.
Hong Kong is also known as the “City of Lights”. However, the bright lights in the city are proving too much for some Hong Kong residents. Environmental activist Hahn Chu Hon-Keung has found some extreme examples [...]

Earth Till 2100 According To Climate Scientists

Earth Till 2100 According To Climate Scientists

The U.K. government’s Met Office has created a Google Earth Skin, and it’ll show you the predicted temperature of Earth in the next 100 years. Sounds interesting until you see the data shown in the file. The Arctic Ocean will get an increase in temperature of 18 degrees celsius while most countries get an increase [...]