'Smart Energy Challenge' Seed Funding Launched for New Energy Solutions in...
Singapore, 16 November 2009. The Energy Market Authority (EMA) has launched the Smart Energy Challenge (SEC) to provide seed funding of up to S$5 million per project for innovative energy ideas that...
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Hitachi Innovates Towards Carbon Emission Reduction and Biodiversity...
by Mallika Naguran Singapore, 13 September 2010. Companies can and should play a significant role in reducing carbon emissions and arresting the steep decline in biodiversity loss. Hitachi is certainly...
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Environmentally Friendly Ovens Use Solar Power to Help Haiti Earthquake Victims
Haiti, January 2011. Environmentally friendly solar powered ovens are bringing hot food relief to hundreds of families in Haiti’s earthquake refugee camps. But even better, they are also helping to cut...
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Organic Solar Panels For Safer Environments, Less Pollution
Photovoltaic cells may be good for energy consumption, but the materials they are built from are not good for the environment. Unless they are built using castor beans, by Californian company BioSolar,...
View ArticleMacau International Environmental Protection Exhibition.
For the fourth consecutive year, Macau will host the Macao International Environmental Protection Exhibition and Forum (MIECF) from 31st March to 2nd April 2011. The expo will promote Macao´s role as...
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Macau International Environmental Protection Exhibition 2011
Last year (2010) saw attendees from 48 countries at MIECF For the fourth consecutive year, Macau will host the Macao International Environmental Protection Exhibition and Forum (MIECF) from 31st March...
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Liberia Fights Illegal Logging with Barcodes
After 14 years of civil war, child armies, and natural resource exploitation, Liberia is rebuilding. In part by using barcodes to keep track of its timber exports.Liberia. 17 June 2011. Liberia hosts...
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Singapore's Cleantech R&D in Energy & Water Gets More Funding
Text and photo by Mallika Naguran 12 July 2011, Singapore. Singapore's research and development (R&D) in clean technology has received two major funding boosts by the government recently. Chairman...
View ArticleGreen Disc 2012: Sustainable Development Solutions for All
Green Disc: Innovative Technologies for Sustainable Development – newer version released in June 2012 15 June 2012, Singapore. A bigger Green Disc will be released at the UN Conference on Sustainable...
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Next-generation solar cells: Graphene is the answer
Singapore 17 June 2013. Longer-lasting and better - next-generation solar cells and optoelectronic devices will tout these properties and more when created from a combination of graphene and other...
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Smart Highways : Smarter than Smart Cars?
Car makers are competing to build the ultimate self-driving car that makes it OK to fall asleep at the wheel. But one Dutch designer thinks it makes more sense to build a smart highway instead. By...
View ArticleIndustrial Emissions: Algae that Eat Pollution
Any system that cuts down industrial pollution is a bonus – but if the method can use natural organisms rather than chemicals or energy-intensive industrial processes, then that’s even better. By...
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Industrial Emissions: Algae that Eat Pollution
Any system that cuts down industrial pollution is a bonus – but if the method can use natural organisms rather than chemicals or energy-intensive industrial processes, then that’s even better. By...
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Managing Tilapia Farms Sustainably to Feed the Poor
Text and Photos by Henrylito D. Tacio Davao City, 1 July 2014. After bangus (milkfish), tilapia is now the second most important fish in the Philippines. These days, tilapia fish cages are a common...
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Brightwater: 21st Century Wastewater
Imagine a sewage treatment facility where people get married, surrounded by acres of restored habitat with ponds and fish-friendly wetlands. It sounds far-fetched but it’s reality in Snohomish County,...
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Working the Web: Sustainable Tourism Online
Treading the line between minimal footprint and a sensible online presence is not easy. Marcus Cotton of Tiger Mountain Pokhara Lodge in Nepal explains to Jeremy Torr how his low profile approach has...
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Paperless TravelEase Mobile App Connects Tourists to Asian Attractions
New mobile app TravelEase allows users to make advance booking for tours, attractions and shows in Singapore, soon Hong Kong, Bangkok, Tokyo and Taipei. Plus, it's free. Mallika Naguran reports....
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