by envirolab | May 17, 2016 | Clinic, Dam, Development, Indigenous Communities, Palm Oil, Singapore, Southeast Asia
Pomona College Director of the Bernard Field Station and Assistant Profess of Biology Wallace “Marty” Meyer (standing in the back row with a hat and sunglasses) writes about bearing witness to environmental changes in Southeast Asia, meeting indigenous...
by envirolab | May 12, 2016 | Clinic, Dam, Development, Indigenous Communities, Palm Oil, Singapore, Southeast Asia
Pomona College student Madison Vorva stands with Grace Stewart to her left and Ki’Amber Thompson to her right. Here she answers questions about her experience on the Clinic Trip. Madi has been on the forefront of raising awareness about the links between palm...
by envirolab | Apr 28, 2016 | Clinic, Dam, Indigenous Communities, Palm Oil, Southeast Asia
Grace Stewart (CMC ’17), an Environmental Analysis major, discusses the complexities of environmental issues she was exposed to during the Clinic Trip to Malaysian Borneo and Singapore in January 2016. Q: How did the trip contribute to your understanding...
by envirolab | Apr 19, 2016 | Clinic, Indigenous Communities, Palm Oil, Singapore, Southeast Asia, Yale-NUS
Claremont McKenna College student Johann Lim (’18), a History & Government major from Singapore, reflects upon his experience on the EnviroLab Asia Clinic Trip. In the photo above, he is taking a picture with Madison Vorva (PO’17), Stephanie Steinbrecher...
by envirolab | Apr 5, 2016 | Clinic, Dam, Development, Indigenous Communities, Palm Oil, Singapore, Southeast Asia, Yale-NUS
Scripps College student Stephanie Steinbrecher (’16), an English major & Environmental Analysis minor, writes about her web of experiences from the EnviroLab Asia Clinic Trip. From January 3 to January 13, 2016, students and faculty from the Claremont...
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...
