Arkitrekker on September 1st, 2010

You will recall that we have been building a biogas digester at Camp Tinangol with Camps International. Reasons for the failure at Tinangol are due perhaps not surprisingly to poor workmanship. The body of the digester was not watertight and the fixed dome was not air tight.

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Arkitrekker on August 16th, 2010

The following is written by me friend and colleague, Cynthia. I endorse her views and recommend you read them because by chosing to mobilise around the issue of clean energy, Cynthia has shown how our shared values of environmental conservation, sustainable development and just government are being swept under the carpet in Malaysia.

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Arkitrekker on July 2nd, 2010

I was up before dawn to watch the sun rise from the view point at Borneo Rainforest Lodge. I could see nothing on account of cloud and so I lay down on the bench and went to sleep for a while. I was woken up by an orang-utan rustling the branches above me. I ignored [...]

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Arkitrekker on May 25th, 2010

Some plastics marked as ‘degradable’ might not be as environmentally-friendly as consumers think. The implications go beyond greenwashing. In our rush to damn plastic bags and bottles, environmentalists may have shot themselves in the foot because degradable plastic can compromise plastic recycling.

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Arkitrekker on May 8th, 2010

Nuclear Power has been in the Malaysian news recently after their government gave the go ahead for a nuclear power plant to begin operating from 2021 Environmentalists and NIMBY’s are usually vocal in their opposition to such announcements and indeed the Malaysia Nature Society has been debating the issue for some time before the government [...]

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