This article first appeared in the Earth Island Journal. In Vietnam’s Red River, navigating the space between environmental conservation and cultural preservation can be trickier than it first appears. On a chilly, gray January morning in Hanoi, Vietnam, a local development worker named Anh Ngoc Thi Nguyen volunteered at a river clean-up at the Red … Read more
This article was first published in Tricycle Magazine Thich Tinh Giac wants to educate his Vietnamese neighbors about the ecological impact of religious rites. Not far from Hanoi, Vietnam, off a long road that winds through plush green rice fields and banana plantations, sits Chua Phuc Son, a small pagoda in a quaint district called Gia … Read more
Moonee Ponds Creek from Flemington Bridge Station down to Docklands, in Melbourne, is filled with litter. It runs along side a train line, underneath City Link, and is a receptacle for much of the inner city storm water. This piece addresses the issue of litter in Melbourne’s waterways. It includes interviews with Kaye Oddie of … Read more