http://greenindonesia.net Wed, 31 Jan 2007 03:50:09 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en 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 Indonesia By Andre Vltchek Another day, another unnecessary loss of lives: 24 people killed and 10 still missing in ... http://greenindonesia.net/archives/58 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 = Carbon Reductions from 5 Kyotos! At Nairobi, governments are debating the future of the Kyoto Protocol and action to prevent the most serious ... http://greenindonesia.net/archives/57 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 Environmental Investigation Agency (EIA), and Telapak on your Rain Forest Action page. ... http://greenindonesia.net/archives/55 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 flavour or, indeed, why as the mother of Son No.1 and I were avid wine makers, ... http://greenindonesia.net/archives/54 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 quantities of greenhouse gases and destroying the livelihoods of local communities and rainforest habitats of countless species. Those annual fires release as ... http://greenindonesia.net/archives/52 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 mind, believe me. The haze appears at its most intense at a very bad time for the annual ... http://greenindonesia.net/archives/49 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 for two reasons. 1. It sets everything out succinctly. 2. It nails Aburizal Bakrie who's only kept ... http://greenindonesia.net/archives/48 ..... 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 sciences) is called the Tree of Knowledge and the Tree of Life. Under the protective umbrage of this ... http://greenindonesia.net/archives/44 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 again, actions are being taken for short-term gain, mere Bandaid solutions for serious lesions. I guess it ... http://greenindonesia.net/archives/42 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 has decreed it. Displaced residents must be resettled, retrained and compensated at the expense of Lapindo Brantas . The mud continues to ... http://greenindonesia.net/archives/40