climate… The Smoke of Centuries: Indonesia’s Fires 9 Nov 2015 The fires in Indonesia burn rainforest trees that have grown and fed and housed orangutans for decades or centuries, and peat that has stored carbon for centuries or millennia. George Monbiot…
education… Saving What Matters: Taking Sustainability Personally 20 Sep 201520 Sep 2015 I was asked to deliver a talk to the School of Arts, Design and Media at Nanyang Technological University last week. As I was preparing, I recorded a rehearsal version…
disasters… Leuser Under Threat Again 14 Sep 2015 And yet another sad but important recent article related to my upcoming talk, this time on the Leuser Ecosystem (where I studied orangutans at Suaq Balimbing and Ketambe research sites in…
justice… The Curse of Coltan 13 Sep 201513 Sep 2015 Planning another of those difficult talks about primate conservation, and came across this summary of the link to coltan mining in the DRC.
disasters… Latest article on the Palm Oil threat to the Leuser Ecosystem 23 Jul 2015 A recent summary of the current challenges facing Leuser, where I went 16 years ago to study orangutans, then watched their home being desecrated by the relentless chainsaws. "Right now, huge swaths…
climate… Vernal Thoughts 24 Mar 2015 Four quick thoughts on events that come around this time of year... 1. Solar zenith in Singapore and what the Equinox is all about At 1:11 PM Singapore time, the…
disasters… Evidence of illegal logging activity detected by conservation drones in Gunung Leuser National Park 3 Oct 20143 Oct 2014 More logging in Leuser - ouch! At least the Gunung Leuser National Park officials seem to have given an appropriate response. Here's hoping those conservation drones can catch more illegal…
education… Conservation Drones? 4 Sep 20148 Sep 2014 When I was slogging through the swamps and slipping down the mud-slicked trails of Sumatra, following orangutans, I often daydreamed about how the right tech would make the job so…
climate… Palm Oil Updates from UCS 25 Aug 2014 Union of Concerned Scientists is starting a new campaign to get McDonald's to "make a firm commitment to use only deforestation-free palm oil." "Tell McDonald's to go deforestation-free!" Act Now »…
Living Systems… The geometry of the human handprint 22 Aug 201422 Aug 2014 Take a moment to observe a scene somewhere not crafted by human hands: a forest, a creek bed, a meadow, a hillside, a leaf. How often do you see right…
Ponderings of a Perplexed Primate 