Salters Shareem and Wai Leng hopped over to Kota Kinabalu this week to attend the launch of a book that Salt put together for the Sabah Forestry Department entitled Forever Green: A Sustainable Future with Deramakot. The book, which documents the Department’s work in successfully implementing sustainable forestry management practices in the Deramakot forest reserve [...]
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How much CO2?
We’re inundated by warnings about how we’re burdening the Earth with our awful, polluting ways, but it can be difficult to quantify the damage that we do. One website – knowledgeisbeautiful.net – attempts to do just that with an application that visualises the level of carbon emissions for things that we do, eat, buy or [...]
The Little Black Dress goes green
It’s getting easier to be green these days. More people are aware of how wasteful our consumer culture is and are taking steps to reduce, reuse, and recycle in order to put the planet back on track. Then there are others out there who have put a creative spin on being ecologically friendly, looking fashionable, [...]
Bees in peril
In recent years, bee populations have been diminishing across Europe and the US; some bee species have dwindled to only four per cent of their original population size, while others have become extinct in the US. This is distressing information for us all – or should be – as bees are not only responsible for [...]
Bringing handwriting back to life
Using an online application to use your own handwriting on the computer
