News Round Up 4
Two weeks ago, we posted a bumper batch of green news from around the archipelaego. Sadly, there’s little new to report. Sidoarjo Mudflow This is now officially a disaster zone because the government...
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Enter the mudslingers with no solutions
We’ve taken the liberty of lifting this post from Unspun, the blog of Ong Hock Chuan. The questions he asked are highly relevant in the ongoing saga of the Sidoarjo ooze. As we wrote yesterday, once...
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Under the Banyan Tree
….. or Limb From Limb The Arasa-Maram, the banyan tree, (so sacred with the Hindus, since Vishnu, during one of his incarnations, reposed under its mighty shade and there taught humanity philosophy and...
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New Indonesia Calamity: A Man-Made Mud Bath
We’ve lifted the following in toto from Friday’s New York Times because you have to register to read it. With Green Indonesia, you get it as it comes. We like this presentation of the Sidoarjo story...
View ArticleFaunacator Calling
The Faunacator has seen within the past few days at first hand the appalling forest fire-induced haze over Batam and Singapore. Whoever coined the phrase ‘Ignorance is Bliss’ cannot have had this in...
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Southeast Asia’s Peat Fires and Global Warming
Press Release By Ecological Internet and Biofuelwatch October 18, 2006 (Madison, WI, USA) – Hundreds of peat and forest fires are once again burning across Indonesian Borneo and Sumatra, releasing vast...
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Plonkers
It’s now thirty years since I went into the health food store in West Cumbria, some thirty miles from the Windscale nuclear reprocessing plant. I wanted to buy some herbal teas. I’m not sure what...
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Environmental Investigation Agency (EIA), and Telapak
Hello Jakartass I read with interest your new blog site Green Indonesia. It seems like a great initiative, and I hope you continue with it. When did it start? I wonder if you could put a link to the...
View ArticleSoutheast Asia’s Annual Rainforest Fire Emissions
Joint Press Release by Ecological Internet, Biofuelwatch, Watch Indonesia and Save the Rainforest (Germany) For immediate release – November 10th, 2006 Southeast Asia’s Annual Rainforest Fire Emissions...
View ArticleNature not solely to blame
This article deserves to be read by every politician, businessman, community worker and, indeed, every citizen of Indonesian who has a voice and a vote. Nature Not Solely to Blame for Disasters in...
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