Sustainability

Sustainability • STORY OF THE DAY • Feb 08, 2019 • 4 min read

Environment Behind the growing demand for ‘unbreakable’ bamboo bikes

By Claire Baker-Munton • Feb 08, 2019
Known for its strength and durability, bamboo has been used to make items across Asia for centuries, from chopping boards in Japan to firecrackers in Malaysia to the scaffolding of today, so why not bicycles? Southeast Asia Globe looks into how these rigid weeds become a viable means of transportation

Sustainability • STORY OF THE DAY • Jan 14, 2019 • 15 min read

Universal basic income The cost of living

By Paul Millar • Jan 14, 2019
Fuelled by rampant poverty and fears that rising automation will strip millions of low-skilled workers of their livelihoods, more and more countries are exploring the idea of a universal basic income that guarantees a livelihood for all their citizens

Sustainability • STORY OF THE DAY • Nov 29, 2018 • 7 min read

Timor-Leste ‘Why don’t we like eating the food we grow?’

By Southeast Asia Globe Editorial • Nov 29, 2018
Family and restaurant tables feature imported and packaged foods, but innovators are working to put the focus back on local, healthier ingredients

Sustainability • STORY OF THE DAY • Oct 11, 2018 • 12 min read

Sustainable development Vietnam’s good life

By Michael Tatarski • Oct 11, 2018
Vietnam performed the best of 151 countries in a study that assessed quality of life versus environmental sustainability

Sustainability • Sep 10, 2018 • 18 min read
Cambodia's building blocks

How sand dredging bled a fishing community dry

After a decade of heavy sand dredging in the waterways of Cambodia's Koh Kong province, a fishing community once recognised for its rich ecosystem is struggling to fill its nets.
By Janelle Retka and Leng Len

Sustainability • Sep 05, 2018 • 15 min read
Renewable energy

The price of power

The deadly dam collapse in Laos in 2018 brings Cambodia’s own grand plans for hydropower into question – and thrusts solar power to the forefront of the Kingdom’s quest for energy independence
By Amanda Kaufmann

Sustainability • Aug 03, 2018 • 9 min read
dam collapse

Laos gambles on becoming ‘battery of Southeast Asia’

The collapse of a hydroelectric dam in Laos last week has reinvigorated a debate on the potential consequences of the country’s fervent building of dams, leaving many to question if the rewards outweigh the risks
By Thomas Brent

Sustainability • Mar 29, 2018 • 3 min read
Affordable housing

A Cambodian housing revolution built on ‘Lego bricks’

Hav Kongngy hopes his affordable, interlocking bricks can help tackle a housing crisis that has left many Cambodians unable to afford a home
By Southeast Asia Globe Editorial

Sustainability • Mar 01, 2018 • 10 min read
Sustainable urban development

Southeast Asia's megacities have a choice: Shangri-La or slum

With Southeast Asia's population expected to grow by more than 100 million people in the next 30 years, the region's crowded megacities are in danger of becoming dystopian nightmares - unless governments and city planners act now
By Paul Millar

Sustainability • Nov 06, 2017 • 11 min read
Cambodia's construction boom

A future without home?

The construction industry in Cambodia has been enjoying great growth in recent years. Yet there are concerns over the quality of some of these projects and an over-reliance on Chinese investment
By Nathan Paul Southern

Sustainability • Mar 31, 2017 • 11 min read
Urban Migration

Cambodia’s affordable housing crisis

Several privately funded affordable housing developments have broken ground in Cambodia but, as urban migration intensifies, can the country meet the urgent demand for social housing?
By Claire Knox