APP Promises Conservation: Don’t Hold Your Breath
Sinar Mas Group’s Asia Pulp and Paper (APP), Indonesia’s largest and most controversial logger, made another promise this week. APP announced that one of the rainforest logging and conversion permits…
Litquake Events Take on the Changing Publishing Industry and Sustainability
The publishing world is rapidly changing as technology influences where, when, and how an author goes about getting published. San Francisco’s very own Litquake extravaganza delves into this further and…
Hello, World! Love, Tiki
Hello? Can you hear me?? Well, I hope you can hear me. Hi Everybody! My name is Tiki. My friends call me Tiki the Tiny Tiger because I’m the smallest…
Tiger Eats Boy: APP Asks You To Follow Their Tracks
On August 10th two seemingly contradictory things happened. The Jakarta Globe reported that a teenage boy was mauled by Sumatran tiger in the Senepis area of Indonesia, an area where…
As Indonesia’s Forest Disappears, Tiger Eats Boy
This week the Jakarta Globe reported that a teenager named Ahmad Rafi was killed by a Sumatran tiger. He was mauled while he and his parents were tapping rubber trees…
APRIL and Indonesian Government Pose Major Threat to Sumatra’s Forest Communities
There is a beautiful place in the world called Tebing Tinggi. It is located on the island of Sumatra in Indonesia. I had the honor of visiting Tebing Tinggi this…
Cargill customers cancel with Sinar Mas while Cargill continues to support rainforest destruction
Nestle, the world’s largest food and beverage company, has become the latest major multinational to cancel their palm oil contract with Sinar Mas, one of Indonesia’s largest conglomerates and a…