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Environment
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Asia Briefing— Global
Preface
We report on an urban farming project at Osaka train station, the first verticle farm in Singapore and the sad fate of Cambodia's colonial and "new Khmer" buildings.
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01Taking charge
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02Farm favourite
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Urban manifesto
Issue 5
What do you really want out of a city? And what can you do without? With the environment top of the agenda in mayors’ offices around the world, *Monocle* looks beyond the recycling bins and congestion charges to see what…
Business / Environment
Power to the pedal
Issue 48
Whether it’s economic or ecological forces driving the gears of change,two-wheeled transport is on the up. At Europe’s largest trade show, one particular trend is putting traditionalists’ spokes out of joint – the buzz…
Business / Environment
Business briefing
Issue 14
Making malls in Brazil, keeping faith with coal in Australia and how Japan has its finger on the pulse of the latest biometric technology.
Affairs / Environment
Asia Briefing
Issue 45
We report on an urban farming project at Osaka train station, the first verticle farm in Singapore and the sad fate of Cambodia's colonial and "new Khmer" buildings.
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Affairs / Environment
Environment Forecast
Issue 39
Chinese eco-cities, what the Pharoahs can teach us about climate change, and the battle between business and environmentalists over vast oil reserves in Canada.
Business / Environment
From red to green
Issue 29
It builds one new coal power plant every week, and is the largest emitter of carbon emissions in the world. But as world leaders gather for Copenhagen’s climate change conference, China is also the nation that could save…
Design / Environment
Natural by design
Issue 9
Those wishing to follow the growing global trend for simple, ecologically sound living could have no better example than Professor Yoshifumi Nakamura and his weekend haven, tucked away in the hills of Japan’s Nagano region…
Affairs / Environment
Tasmanian angel
Issue 23
Hobart, capital of Tasmania, is the nearest inhabited landmass to Antarctica and that’s why scientists flock to the city that is at the frontline of environmental research. Add to this adventurous tourists and food pioneers…
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Affairs / Environment
2012 forecast: environment
Issue 49
Capturing Egypt's sunshine, growing bamboo in the US and bringing wind power to Turkey.
Affairs / Environment
Hard-task masters
Issue 45
This is Monocle’s homage to the city workers charged with some of the toughest tasks in the world, from the nitty gritty of slum clearance in India, to dealing with Cairo’s rubbish problem and working in Taipei’s animal…
Business / Environment
The buzz driver
Issue 35
Kajima, one of Japan’s largest engineering firms, built the country’s first concrete dam and nuclear reactor. Now it’s at the forefront again, this time in the field of urban biodiversity. We meet the man who sees the…