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Borneo’s magnificent rain forest is being decimated to make way for oil palm plantations. Consumers of the countless products made with palm oil, from toothpaste to chocolate bars, hold the key to protecting the most ancient forest on earth . Have you wondered about the forest that still has a potential to be lungs world? Then I discovered  Alex Shoumatoff  article about  Saving One of the World's Last Great Place . By this article we know that there is still a potential forest but its existence has been threatened . Rain forests in Borneo that become the lungs world begin to be degraded by palm oil plantations and susceptible to burning. Oil palm plantation activities often have particular impacts on environmental sustainability. As we know that Borneo rain forest is decimated to make way for palm oil because it is the second-most important oil of the modern consumer in society, Indonesia and Malaysia choose palm oil as their economic source. Indonesia, fo...

Currently there is a lot of oblique news about the existence of wild animals that enter the settlement. In this reflection article, we don’t need to discuss, what's happen, how it could happen. Because we should already know why, and the answer must be because their homes have been tripped up by people who only prioritize their personal wealth without thinking about the impact that will occur on their surroundings and because the nature of the wild animals has begun to change. On 2018, YSEALI Fellows and I visited the Yosemite National Park , in that National Park we found a lot of slogans that contained prohibition on feeding animals in national parks. Don’t feed the animals!! Keep them wild!! This case is always underlined when we were in this national park, they strongly criticize the provision of food to animals in this national park, they do not hesitate to fine anyone who violates their rules. During our camp, we stayed at Half Dome, we were not allowed to bring...

Protecting Nature & Facilitating Community Officially launched in 2019 by Satia Raj and Zalida as tge YSEALI Alumnae. Earthgenics Ilab has the main goal to help forest conservation efforts and promote non-timber forest products to empower the local community. Currently, Earthgenics has 2 working areas in Indonesia which are North Sumatera and Central Kalimantan. In 2019, Earthgenics successfully got an opportunity to join the Impact XL Innovation Lab Exchange Program in Inle Lake, Myanmar that was hosted by the East West Center. We hope this initiative may inspire the youth in Indonesia to better understand who needs nature the most and take some real action. As we know that mangrove ecosystems are threatened to disappear because of the deforestation and the conversion of mangrove forests into fishponds. Mangroves are the most productive marine ecosystems on Earth, providing a unique habitat opportunity for many species and key goods and services for human beings. Mangrove forests...

I n recent years, the growth of interest in responsible travel has outperformed tourism. Ecotourism is one of term which ultimately affects every kind of traveler. When people think of Eco-tourism they think of visiting an exotic natural landscape where everything is organic and the motto  “Take only pictures, leave only footprints” . Many people make mistake in assuming that ecotourism is all about conserving nature and wildlife by any means necessary, but if a destination or business’ tourism development strategy does not actively provide concrete financial people, it’s not truly ecotourism. In simple words, the meaning of ecotourism is  travel that makes a positive impact on both the ecology and economy of a given destination. Ecotourism goes beyond nature and wildlife, it also includes local people. The ecological impact include human beings as the part of environmental sustainability. Although widely consider being a sustainable way to see the world and learn to ap...

Semakin hari, kondisi lingkungan hidup menunjukkan tanda-tanda kerusakan parah. Bumi semakin rusak, lapisan ozon berlubang dimana-mana, es-es di kutub mencair, flora fauna kehilangan habitatnya, bahkan hutan kehilangan fungsinya sebagai paru-paru dunia. Tentunya hal-hal tersebut menganggu stabilitas kehidupan di muka bumi. Sudah kita ketahui bahwa masalah lingkungan yang timbul sebagai akibat dari ulah manusia yang tak mau tau akan perbuatannya. Kini, bumi seakan tidak memiliki masa depan   jika tidak ada yang peduli dan bergerak menuju perubahan. Seringkali muncul pemikiran tentang solusi apa yang dapat digunakan dalam penyelesaian masalah lingkungan, apalagi dengan mengaitkan dengan pemerintah, bahkan banyak yang tak segan untuk mencaci maki pemerintah karena belum berhasil mengelola lingkungan hidup dengan baik dan tidak menyeluruh. Sebenarnya semua solusi ada dalam diri masing-masing, namun untuk memulainya membutuhkan keberanian. Jika hanya menunggu pemerintah bertindak...

How Today’s Entrepreneurs Use Continuous Innovation to Create Radically Successful Business The only way to win is to learn faster than anyone else. –  Eric Ries Starting up a new company or a business always involves a lot of risk. A number of startups fail even before they can reach a certain level. The Lean Startup: How Today's Entrepreneurs Use Continuous Innovation To Create Radically Successful Businesses is about using a new and innovative approach called ‘Lean Startup’ to revolutionize the world of business. When an individual or a group of individuals starts a new business, there is always an air of uncertainty prevailing over their minds. What they want to do is to create something meaningful that will sustain, proving all the uncertainties futile. The Lean Startup approach concentrates on increasing the capital efficiency of the companies as well as using the human creativity to its highest level. The book explains difficult concepts like validated ...

Membuang sampah sembarangan merupakan salah satu pelanggaran etika yang yang sering kita jumpai dan telah menjadi hal yang umum di masyarakat Indonesia. Sampah adalah urusan setiap orang (Wilson, 2015).  Tanpa disadari masyarakat telah menganggap bahwa membuang sampah sembarangan adalah hal yang biasa. Permasalahan sampah tak hanya menyoal kebijakan pemerintah tentang sampah dan teknologi pengelolaannya, karena jika kita berbicara pada ranah tersebut maka akan kalah dengan negara maju yang teknologinya sudah berkembang pesat, namun yang jauh lebih penting adalah perilaku manusia yang membuang sampah itu sendiri yang perlu mendapat perhatian dan edukasi dari berbagai sisi. Seringkali kita melihat banyak orang yang membuang sampah seenaknya, tanpa memikirkan dampak yang akan terjadi kedepannya. Kebanyakan kita menggunakan plastik sekali pakai kemudian di buang seenaknya, padahal masih bisa di manfaatkan lagi. Tanpa disadari bahwa sampah yang di buang bukanlah benar-bena...