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Sustainable Asia
Stories about Asia and the environment...that you probably haven’t heard yet. A new perspective on how different countries in Asia are tackling a changing planet.
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S16E4: Lab Grown Fish - A Climate Change Solution?
Lab grown fish could be a game changer here in Asia because our waters are becoming more and more overfished. And it turns out marine life in the ocea...
S17E4: INC-4 and Plastic Chemicals
We're back partnering again with the Break Free From Plastic movement to feature NGO advocates in Asia. In this episode. we are going to hone in on on...
S17E3: INC-3 Is Over…What Now?
We have a great new episode discussing the United Nations Global Plastics Treaty from the view of Break Free from Plastic advocates here in Asia. Our...
S17E2: Plastisphere Podcast's How (Not) to Make a Plastics Treaty - Part I: Ambition in a Bracket
Hey Sustainable Asia Listeners! We have some upcoming episodes discussing the United Nations Global Plastics Treaty negotiations that I think you ar...
S17E2: What happened at INC-2?
The second meeting of the International Negotiations Committee (INC-2) had lofty ambitions. But the first three days of these Plastics Treaty negotia...
S17E1: Bonus Episode: Plastisphere Podcast's Demands for the Plastic Treaty - Science over Profit
A bonus episode about the Global Plastics Treaty from one of my favorite podcasts called Plastisphere. It’s run by Anja Krieger in Berlin, and like Su...
S17E1: Why It's No Longer About Recycling
We need other solutions to the plastic waste crisis. Solutions that involve reduce, reuse, refill and repair here in Asia. And those types of solution...
S17E1: New Season | Global Plastics Treaty Negotiations
The Global Plastics Treaty negotiations kicked off! This is a historic moment for Asia, because after decades of plastic waste washing up on their sho...
S16E3: Cows | A Climate Stomach Ache
Our focus in this episode is livestock…specifically dairy products made from cows. It turns out enteric fermentation, the cow's digestive process of t...
S16E2: Rice｜A Sticky Climate Challenge
Over half of the world’s population eats rice as its staple food. But did you know that rice production also contributes to about 10% of the world's m...
S16E1: Soil｜The Silent Climate Fighter
Are you aware of the critical role soil plays in the battle against climate change? But 75% of soil is already degraded from unsustainable farming pra...
S15E5: Seoul | Too Many Coal Plants
It turns out Seoul, Korea has the worst air pollution amongst all of the top 10 economies in the world. Why is air pollution still such a huge challen...
S15E4: Delhi and Kathmandu | Signs of Progress
Chermaine and Khoa move southeast and talk to a leading advocate in New Delhi who has successfully engaged the government there. Delhi’s air pollution...
S15E3: Lahore | Fighting for Clean Air
The next stop on the Chermaine and Khoa’s tour of Asia’s megacities is Lahore. This episode goes in depth to explore the political and social causes o...
S15E2: Jakarta | A Choking Hazard
Chermaine and Khoa’s journey continues onto Jakarta, Indonesia where they meet with environmentalists who shed light on the health concerns surroundin...
S15E1: Bangkok | Toxic Air
In their first stop across Asia’s megacities, environmental journalists Chermaine Lee and Khoa Tran head to Bangkok, Thailand. The government’s blind...
S15E1: New Season: Clearing the Air
Why haven’t the governments in Asia’s larger cities done something about the decades old problem of air pollution? Our two young environmental journal...
S14E3: Finally...New Initiatives for Asia
Of the various challenges Asian countries face when tackling plastic waste…lack of funding is perhaps the one common thread. So how can more money ge...
S14E2: Can Plastic Laws get a Boost in Asia?
Rose-Liza Eisma-Osorio, Legal and Policy Director at the NGO Oceana, is taking on the Philippine government. A decades-old solid waste management law...
S14E1: View from Asia
Could it be true that countries from the UN Environment Assembly committed to negotiate a global plastic treaty over the next two years? And even if t...
S14E1: New Season!
Put on your headphones and get ready for two new seasons from the Sustainable Asia Podcast about the Global Plastic Treaty and Asia’s Air Pollution wo...
S13E2: Surviving the Cacophony in China’s waters
The Indo-Pacific humpback dolphin is protected at the highest level in China, but its numbers are dwindling fast. In Hong Kong, where the species is a...
S13E1: Sounds from a Healthy Coral Reef
In this episode, we visit the Great Barrier Reef to discover the clamorous underwater world of marine life sounds. What can we learn from listening cl...
S13E1: Introducing Asia's Noisy Oceans
It turns out, sound is the dominant sense for animals underwater. For anything further than 10 meters away, marine life uses sound rather than sight t...
S12E5: The Plastic Carbon Footprint
As ocean temperatures rise with global warming, tropical cyclones are hitting Asian nations like Japan and the Philippines like never before. So to en...
S12E4: Lessons From a Pandemic
In this episode… we’ll traverse from Hong Kong to South Korea and onto Pune, India. We start with Hong Kong, where Sustainable Asia is based, because...
S12E3: Community Trash Talk
Sparked by the zero waste movement, Asian countries are focusing on reducing..rather than recycling... plastic waste. We start our story on the wealth...
S12E2: Shouldn't They Know Better?
We first travel to a waste bank on the island of Lembeh, Indonesia to see how recycling works (or doesn’t work) in small villages. Then we take a look...
S12E1: Once Upon a Plastic Covered Beach...
We start with Melati Wijsen’s story….a young Indonesian civic advocate who went on a hunger strike in an effort to ban plastic bags on Bali. With was...
S12E1: Introducing Mapping Asia's Plastic Crisis
The plastic waste crisis in Asia is real...and it doesn’t seem to be getting better.... It’s clear that we need a new approach to reducing disposable...
S11E10: Fukushima’s Ongoing Nuclear Bite
With Fukushima’s horrific earthquake-induced nuclear disaster still haunting Japan nowadays, the East Asian nation is finding it increasingly difficul...
S11E9: China’s Carbon Neutral Bite
China is set to launch its most green-focused plan during two important annual meetings, giving more details on how it plans to eliminate carbon emiss...
S11E8: Hong Kong’s Green Bond Bites
As Asia’s financial hub just announced its new budget, Hong Kong is set to launch the largest amount of green bonds ever in Asia, aiming to raise bill...
S11E7: K-Pop’s Powerful Bite
As K-pop bands like BTS and Blackpink have become global sensation, our young hosts talk about how their fans groups from all over the world are a str...
S11E6: Nature's Bite at Lunar New Year
While the Year of the Ox kicked off, our young hosts’ celebration was cut short. Nature’s Bite dampened Asia’s festive atmosphere - from an earthquak...
S11E5: Asia's Climate Activism’s Strong Bite
Is climate activism working? Our young hosts talk about how Japan, South Korea and Vietnam’s student activists rallied against building coal-fired pla...
S11E4: A Bite of East Asia’s Reality
Reminiscing about good times in Japan, our tourism-hungry hosts talk about the creative but alarming graphics depicting the country at the end of this...
S11E3: Behind the Masks of Covid-19
Masked up for over a year, our young hosts wonder and report on what is happening to all the disposable masks in Asia. We talk about the notorious pla...
S11E2: January’s FrostBite - The New Normal?
In beanies and thick jackets, our young hosts are surviving the coldest winter in East Asia while bringing you the latest updates on the region’s gree...
S11E1: Was 2020 a green year in Asia?
As we are all turning over a new leaf in 2021 we cherry-pick the most important updates of the environmental sector in Asia. In this brand new weekly...