by envirolab | May 9, 2016 | Clinic, Dam, Development, Indigenous Communities, Singapore, Southeast Asia, Yale-NUS
Science and Management major Jahnavi Kocha (CMC ’19) discusses the ways she has been inspired by the people she met on the Clinic Trip. In January 2016, students and faculty from the Claremont Colleges and Yale-NUS went to Malaysian Borneo and Singapore to learn...
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 25, 2016 | Clinic, Dam, Development, Indigenous Communities, Southeast Asia
Pomona College student Ki’Amber Thompson (’18), an English and Environmental Analysis major, talks about the impact of the Clinic Trip on her ideas about conservation, future interests, and the importance of listening while conducting research. The Clinic...
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 | 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...
