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    Looking towards a greener future

    Life, Published on 01/10/2021

    » Forbes reported earlier this year that consumers across the world have exhibited a strong shift in preferences for more sustainable products, especially over the past five years. While buyers want companies and brands to use more recycled materials, consumers also are moving away from fossil fuels while at the same time reconsidering their roles as stewards of the resources they use.

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    Coldplay across the universe

    Life, Kong Rithdee, Published on 07/02/2024

    » The latest Coldplay concert in Bangkok was a feat of photogenic spectacles designed to bedazzle, complete with light-blinking wristbands, sci-fi-warped animation on spherical screens, balloons in the shape of planets and exploding fireworks above the roof of Rajamangala National Stadium ("The football field not often used to play football on," as a Thai national squad member noted.)

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    A celebration of a better future

    Life, Published on 15/11/2023

    » Imagine what it would be like to live in perennial darkness devoid of sunlight?

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    A deal to save the planet

    Life, Sawarin Suwichakornpong, Published on 04/09/2020

    » The rising temperature of Earth's climate is wreaking havoc on our ecosystems by generating extreme changes in the weather, unresolved seasonal changes, and ecological damage. While there is ample evidence to suggest climate change took place even in prehistoric times, scientists have observed that the rate and degree of change since the mid-20th century has been accelerating, concluding that human activity has been the major driving force underlying this drastic transformation.

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    Hope springs eternal

    Life, Noko, Published on 18/06/2021

    » For more than a half-century, ocean exploration pioneer Sylvia Earle has seen the beauty under the sea as well as alarming changes that call for marine conservation.

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    Can a righteous resistance ever cross the line?

    Life, Sawarin Suwichakornpong, Published on 22/01/2021

    » Sabotage, in French and in English, indicates the act of deliberately destroying or damaging property. It's an apparatus that aims at weakening an enemy or oppressor through means such as subversion and obstruction. It is a tool that, we are told, has been adopted by French workers as a substitute for strikes, but sabotage doesn't limit itself only to workplaces. Its literature survey connotes that it occurs within a variety of contexts -- in wars, political and social campaigns, or socio-economic programmes that effect someone's livelihood. In all cases, however, the intent of sabotage is analogous -- to use extreme civil disobedience to inflict damage upon goods or properties in order to serve a particular purpose or higher goal. The end justifies the means, according to the saboteurs.

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    End of fossil fuel?

    Life, Bernard Trink, Published on 20/12/2019

    » I'm not a linguist. I'm not proud of it. English is my first and only language, which is not to say that it's the only language worth knowing. I studied other languages in school, but couldn't get the hang of them. Neither am I well-versed in English. I'm not being modest. I look at Webster and Oxford with a groan.

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    Looking towards a greener future

    Life, Published on 30/09/2021

    » Forbes reported earlier this year that consumers across the world have exhibited a strong shift in preferences for more sustainable products, especially over the past five years. While buyers want companies and brands to use more recycled materials, consumers also are moving away from fossil fuels while at the same time reconsidering their roles as stewards of the resources they use.

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    Embrace the light

    Life, Pattarawadee Saengmanee, Published on 16/11/2020

    » With human activities causing global warming and climate change, the Solar Land exhibition has turned the Gallery Room and Rooftop Garden of Thailand Creative and Design Center into a fun scientific playground, where visitors can learn how to generate electricity at home or in daily life to reduce the consumption of fossil fuels.

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    Climate activists throw soup over Van Gogh's 'Sunflowers' in London

    AFP, Published on 15/10/2022

    » LONDON: Environmental protesters threw tomato soup over one of Vincent van Gogh's "Sunflowers" paintings at London's National Gallery on Friday, in the latest "direct-action" stunt targeting works of art.

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