When it comes to the topic of environmental degradation in Borneo, conservationists have become the new colonialists. From the conservationist standpoint, forests are seen as pristine sources of wilderness and wildlife, untouched by the human hand and unseen by the human eye. The goal of conservation in Borneo is to preserve important areas of biodiversity [...]

Headlines in late August 2011 were quick to announce the results of a UN Report declaring a 20% decrease in the prevalence of HIV/AIDS in the Asia and Pacific Region. While the decrease is no doubt a wonderful feat, it is difficult to diagnose it as a direct result of international medical programs (rather than [...]

The so-called “choices” that people make about movement– how they get to where they’re going, and whether they bike, walk, ride, or drive there– are never merely individual decisions. Rather, these decisions are often the result of how the cities we live in have been mapped and planned over time. Los Angeles, for example, is [...]

A joint publication by Saba Michael and Erin Brodwin  It might not be a four-letter-word, but the term Famine, now used to describe the state of mass starvation in Somalia, is not thrown around casually.  Since its last bought with widespread hunger nearly 20 years ago, Somalia has been capable of doing little to prevent this [...]