Green Network Asia

Social media trends continue to influence how people dress, decorate, and express themselves. One example is whimsymaxxing, which embraces colorful and playful accessories. Yet, its reliance on some plastic-based products raises questions about the rapid rise and fall of viral trends that highlights broader challenges surrounding

There is an old anecdote about a city worker who chides a fisherman on a tropical island for spending his day lounging on the beach. He tells the fisherman to work harder so that one day he can retire and spend his days fishing. The fisherman replies without a moment’s hesitation, “Isn’t that exactly what I’m doing right now?”

Kohei Saito opens his new book, Ca...

This year, the COP31 or the UN Climate Change Conference will be in Türkiye. The Conference of the Parties is a diplomatic forum in which the strength of each country’s climate diplomacy is on display. Yet, ahead of COP31, Indonesia sent a bad signal that screamed greenwashing diplomacy instead.

The fashion industry is one of the world’s largest industries and a driver of the global economy. However, it is also infamous for the amount of waste it generates across the value chain. The most obvious one is the mountains of “waste” made of unworn garments, like in

While the traditional messages of climate change – global warming and rising sea level – continue to be critical, they have to be reframed for them to continue to be relevant. With the trilogy of geopolitical divide, energy crisis, and AI, we should recast ESG as “EESG”, where the first “E” is economics.

With serious backpedaling on sustainability, particularly by t...