by envirolab | Mar 22, 2016 | Clinic, Dam, Indigenous Communities, Research Cluster, Southeast Asia
On March 21, 2016, it was announced that the proposed Mega Dam, which would have flooded indigenous villages and altered the ecosystem of the Baram River, had been halted due to the activism of indigenous communities. Elizabeth Weinlein, an Environmental Policy and...
by envirolab | Mar 16, 2016 | Clinic, Dam, Development, Indigenous Communities, Southeast Asia
Fernando Salud (second from the right), an Engineering major from The Philippines at Harvey Mudd College writes about how EnviroLab Asia’s Clinic Trip to Singapore and Malaysia shaped his views on dam-building, development, and sustainability. From January 3 to...
by envirolab | Mar 10, 2016 | Clinic, Indigenous Communities, Southeast Asia
Professor James Taylor (bottom right), Professor of Theatre at Pomona College, writes about his experience in EnviroLab Asia’s Clinic Trip. From January 3 to January 13, 2016, ten students and eight faculty from the Claremont Colleges embarked on a 10-day...
by envirolab | Feb 22, 2016 | Course Development, Japan
On October 24, 2015, Kyoko Kurita, Professor of Japanese in the Dept. of Asian Languages and Literatures at Pomona College and Co-Principal Investigator of EnviroLab Asia, brought her students to visit the Storrier Stearns Japanese Garden in Pasadena, CA. Here she...
by envirolab | Jan 29, 2016 | Course Development, Japan
Kyoko Kurita, Co-Principal Investigator of EnviroLab Asia and Professor of Japanese in the Department of Asian Languages and Literatures at Pomona College, integrated examining environmental issues in two of her courses last fall: “Advanced Japanese” and “Time &...
by envirolab | Nov 23, 2015 | Palm Oil, Research Cluster, Southeast Asia
In November 2015, award-winning composer and environmental activist Yii Kah Hoe led three events at the Claremont Colleges: • the Nov. 1 “Awakening to the Environment” Concert where Kah Hoe’s piece “Forest Threnody” was performed by the Claremont Concert Choir and...
by envirolab | Oct 29, 2015 | Singapore, Southeast Asia, Yale-NUS
Char Miller, the W.M. Keck Professor of Environmental Analysis at Pomona College and one of the Co-PIs of the EnviroLab Asia, reflects upon his exploratory trip to Singapore in May 2015. He is pictured above in black. In the background is the ExxonMobil Refinery....
by envirolab | Oct 27, 2015 | Research Cluster
“Through EnviroLab Asia, I hope to shape the national and regional conversations of Singapore and Southeast Asia respectively by elevating the environmental aspect while nurturing an environmental consciousness in the minds of the people through the arts and...
by envirolab | Aug 28, 2015 | Southeast Asia
CMC Music and Environmental Analysis double major Grace Stewart shares her experience over the summer as EnviroLab Asia’s first intern. “I enjoyed the opportunity to explore a new place with a group of professors and to learn how to build a project...
