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Melissa Tan’s Zero-Waste Journey
After a glamorous fashion career that saw her in many magazine spreads and billboards, these days Melissa lends her face and voice to advocate for environmental and social causes.
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Why coastal clean-ups are not enough
After you clean today, new trash awaits tomorrow. It’s futile work and highlights how plastic pollution is more than a waste management problem.
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West Papuan Indigenous Win As Jakarta Court Rules Against Palm Oil Company
Awyu Indigenous landowners and environmentalists have welcomed the Jakarta Administrative Court decision that has the potential to save 65,415 hectares of pristine rainforest, six times the area of the city of Paris
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ASEAN urged to provide implementing guidelines to protect Southeast Asian migrant fishers and ratify C-188
The ASEAN Declaration on the Placement and Protection of Migrant Fishers is an important first step towards eradicating forced labour and human rights abuses in the fishing industry, but the declaration needs to be actualised in order to make a difference. Together with Team 9, we want ASEAN to move the discussion forward and provide…
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The Versatile and Indispensable Nibung Tree: Courtroom Testimony of Indigenous Auyu Fighting to Save Their Forest from Palm Oil
Gergorius Yame and Hendrikus Woro packed their bags to travel from West Papua to take the stand in a Jakarta courtroom, they brought items of evidence in the form of customary forest products – loincloths, motu bark bags, Nibung tree fronds and sago.
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Using Art to tackle the plastic pollution crisis
Art, in its essence, is a translator. It deciphers the complex, making it accessible and evocative. This machine, for instance, transforms the intricate narrative of plastic production and pollution into a stark, visceral display, inciting an emotional response and a call to arms.
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Meet WISHULADA, the artist who turns plastic wastes into probing works of art
I have been told many times that If there is no plastic waste then I don’t have any materials to do my work, but I think that’s a great problem to have. The reason that I’m still working on this is because I want to highlight plastic's environmental impacts.
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Greenpeace action highlights the need for strong climate stance among incoming Malaysian leaders
The climate crisis that continues to ravage the most vulnerable sectors of the region and its people through typhoons, floods and extreme heat waves, has taken away our choice of thriving and thrown us all into the beginnings of survival mode. However, as voters, we have the power to change this by making an informed…
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Half-Measures Won’t Protect the Rights of Indigenous Peoples in the Grime Nawa Valley
A flurry of forestry permit revocations by President Joko Widodo in early 2022 now seems to have been little more than a charade, with no subsequent law enforcement efforts by the national government.
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5 Reuse and Refill projects that are making a difference and leading the way to a plastic-free future
Developing countries are leading the way towards a reuse revolution with both their traditional reuse and refill systems, and their modern equivalents. Meet some of the people behind the movement!
