Jennifer Toole has been a transportation engineer and designer for over 30 years. She is a big fan of multimodal transportation systems – but most of all loves to promote cycling.
Sonam Wangchuk: Excellence before Accomplishment
In India, only a handful of students get to attend their dream universities, and unsuccessful applicants are often branded as failures. Worse, many so-called failures can often find no place at all in the conventional education system. But high up in the Himalayas there is an educational institute where failure is the sole criteria for admission. Sonam Wangchuk is its creator
Albert Teo: How to Sustain Community Building in Ecotourism
Rod Hillman: Pushing Hard for Sustainable Tourism
Jeff Goodell on Climate Change: The Water Will Come
Jane Goodall: Act to Conserve, Prevent Climate Change
Dr Jane Goodall speaks of conservation, climate change issues and solutions, involving youths through Roots & Shoots. Gaia Discovery meets the legendary activist. Mallika Naguran reports.
Hitesh Mehta: On Ecotourism Trends in Asia from 2017
Hitesh S. Mehta, the president of HM Design, is a pioneer in the field of authentic ecotourism and a well sought-after ecotourism landscape architect, environmental planner and architect. Here, Mehta speaks to Mallika Naguran, the founder of Gaia Discovery, of his views on how ecotourism is likely to shape Asia in the years to come and about his next book - the second volume of Authentic Ecolodges.
Prof Lye Lin-Heng: Why Attend the Sustainable Development Goals Conference 2016 in Singapore?
In an exclusive interview with Gaia Discovery, Assoc. Prof Lye Lin-Heng, Director of the Asia-Pacific Centre for Environmental Law (APCEL) and chairperson of the organising committee and highlights the significance of the first-of-its-kind conference on "Attaining the UN Sustainable Development Goals - Environmental Law, Policy and Management" in Singapore.
Robi Navicula: GINKalimantan Helps Kids Become Change Makers
Sustainability : or just Sustainababble?
What exactly is sustainability? Author and scientist Haydn Washington asks if it has become such and overused word as to become meaningless, rather than a key concept of the age.