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Category: Environment EN

Reviving the bicycle for transport

Malaysia is getting more urbanised and motorised today. Our towns and cities are now planned with the needs of cars in mind instead of people’s needs — easily half of the space in our cities is now used for cars. This leads to urban sprawl, which causes even more noise and air pollution that lowers our quality of life. Such senseless mobility that involves not only high costs, but also speed...
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How government can promote cycling

To promote cycling and encourage more people to commute by bicycle, the Government can implement policies that benefit cyclists. The following are some steps that have already been taken in other countries to promote bicycle-friendliness and cyclist safety, which the Malaysian government can also adopt: Officially Promote Bicycle Use -- CHANGE the current mindset that makes the car the priority....
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Why should we eat from toxic containers?

Consumers Association of Penang (CAP) calls the attention of the Selangor and Penang state governments and especially the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment, to the widespread use of polystyrene food and drink containers during the Thaipusam festival in their respective states earlier this year. CAP conducted a study comprising random data collection at both locations where large...
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Scrap Lynas plant

We refer to a statement by International Trade and Industry Minister Datuk Seri Mustapa Mohamed that an independent panel will be established soon to conduct a study on the health and safety aspects of Lynas Malaysia Sdn Bhd's rare earth oxides plant in Gebeng. Following this, Lynas issued a statement that the company is confident that the one month review of its plant in Gebeng will reconfirm...
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View Oscar-nominated documentary

"The Warriors of Qiugang" was nominated for the Oscars 2011 for the Best Documentary (short subject). The film was co-produced by Yale Environment 360 with filmmakers Ruby Yang and Thomas Lennon. An inspirational story of how a farmer led villagers to fight pollution in their village. In the process they transformed the village and themselves. See how the protestors in Qiugang in Anhui Province,...
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Memorandum on Malaysia’s nuclear power proposal

CAP and Sahabat Alam Malaysia (SAM) oppose the development of nuclear power plants in Malaysia and are very disturbed to read that the government has already decided on the proposed nuclear energy programme without genuine public consultation. Nuclear power has been generating energy for the world for more than half a century, but it is not without problems. It is an expensive, uneconomic,...
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Leaving oil in the ground to fight climate change

An innovative new initiative to tackle climate change and conserve forests has taken off in Ecuador. The Yasuni initiative has received support from many famous individuals, international organisations and NGOs. By Martin Khor What would a country’s leaders do if oil reserves were discovered beneath the tropical rain forests of that nation’s premier national park? The government would...
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Nuclear plants move offshore

By Karl Grossman Russia has embarked on a scheme to build floating nuclear power plants to be moored off its coasts — especially off northern and eastern Russia — and sold to nations around the world. “Absolutely safe,” Sergei Kiriyenko, director-general of Rosatom, the Russian state nuclear energy corporation, told Reuters as the barge that is to serve as the base for the first floating...
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The truth about Chernobyl: More reason to rethink nuclear energy – seriously

  4,000, 60,000, 244,000 or 500,000 deaths? By Professor Peter Saunders Is Nuclear “one of the safest ways of producing energy”? There are many reasons for rejecting the nuclear option in the “low carbon economy” as thoroughly reviewed in an ISIS report, Green Energies - 100% Renewable by 2050. One of the biggest question marks hanging over the industry is the potential of another...
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“Zero waste for zero warming”

As the international community faces up to the looming climate change, We in the Consumers Association of Penang and Sahabat Alam Malaysia, who are members of GAIA (Global Alliance for Incinerator Alternatives /Global Anti-Incinerator Alliance (GAIA), support the promotion of Zero Waste as a core strategy in preventing and reducing greenhouse gas emissions. For this to happen, waste policies,...
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