Ethics in a Coffee Cup – by Ibu Kat
The kopi luwak story began back in 1991 when former coffee trader Tony Wild brought a single kilogram of it into the UK and introduced it …
Posts in category Nature
In Celebration of the Bali Dog – by Ibu Kat
Many foreigners living in Bali are passionate about the environment here. We wax indignant about genetically modified food and compromised genomes. We respond emotionally to …
Where Has All the Rubbish Gone? The Backstage of Ubud
by Graeme MacRae, an anthropologist from Massey University, New Zealand, who first visited in Ubud in 1977. He lived here with his family for 18 …
Olivier Pouillon: In Nature There Is No Such Thing As Waste"
Back in 1994, Rio Helmi and the other founding fathers of the now defunct original environmental foundation Yayasan Wisnu invited a young American to come …
Nigel Mason: Sampai Sekarang Tetap Saja “Gila”
Nigel Mason adalah seorang tokoh pengusaha ekspatriat yg kondang di Bali, bahkan di luar Bali pula. Telah hidup di Bali kurang lebih 34 tahun lamanya, …
Nigel Mason: Still Crazy After All These Years
Nigel Mason is something of an expat business legend in Bali (and beyond). He has lived in Bali for 34 years, building an ‘empire’ from …
Heritage Rice: Indonesia’s Living Legacy – with Slow Food Bali
by Catriona Mitchell For those who weren’t sweating over the downward dog at Bali Spirit Festival yesterday morning, an altogether less exertive event was on …
Trashing Bali
The lure of ‘paradise’ has brought millions of tourists to Bali over the last decades. Last year alone the figures suggest that more than 2.6 million tourists visited the island. Together with a local population of some 3.9 million inhabitants, the island has to cope with nearly two times the burden…