November 2020

Penang Institute Holds TechCamp 2020 to Raise Media Literacy in the Digital Age

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IN 1998, The Rand Corporation, an American global policy think tank, published a paper on the parallels between the Printing Revolution and the Information Age...

Sprucing Up Penang’s Agriculture Sector

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IS MALAYSIA’S FOOD security guaranteed for the long term? The World Food Programme predicts that the global undernourishment and hunger will reach 840 mil...

Zunita Zubir

The Climate Agenda in Seberang Perai

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THE TRIFECTA OF greenhouse gases, carbon dioxide (CO2), methane (CH4), and nitrous oxide (N2O) are notorious for their contribution to climate change. Urgent ca...

the Seberang Perai City Council

Balancing Heritage Conservation and Sustainable Urban Development

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WITH THE POPULATION of cities expected to increase by 2.5 billion between now and 2050, cities face a multitude of challenges. Urban sprawl and transportation c...

the Malaysia Green Building Council

Net Zero Energy is Feasible in Malaysian Households

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BY COMBINING RENEWABLE energy (RE) on the one hand and practicing energy efficiency (EE) on the other, owners of landed properties can easily achieve net zero e...

C.K. Tang

Renewable and Efficient Energy Paves the Way towards a Green and Resilient Recovery

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IF THERE IS a lesson to be learned from Covid-19, it is this: local governments must make mainstream, through local development plans, consciousness about renew...

Renuka Radakrishnan