Green Living

Solving waste issue and at the same time producing high quality items is what I Want to Smell The Perfume does. Photos courtesy of I Want to Smell The Perfume/NOWJAKARTA Jakarta. A buzzing city with its frenzied morning rush hours and bustling nightlife. A place where everything is going and growing rapidly including municipal and

Debuting with the exhibit by Mulyakarya, the rebranded ARTOTEL Earth invites communities to participate in the ecology movement and environmental preservation. Photo courtesy of ARTOTEL Group/NOW!JAKARTA Progressive Indonesian hospitality brand, ARTOTEL has rebranded its social responsibility programme with the introduction of ARTOTEL Earth. Started in 2016 under the name ARTOTEL for Hope, the new programme is carried

MVB Indonesia closed this year's programmes with an annual conference themed Sustainability for Key Economic Sectors. Photos by Raditya Fadilla/NOWJAKARTA MVB Indonesia took its annual conference to new heights in a packed one-day session which covered much of Indonesia’s major economic sectors with expert speakers attacking the problems and proposing solutions. MVB Chairman Alistair Speirs

Waste4Change's Responsible Waste Management (RWM) programme provides segregated waste collect and responsible recycling process for their clients' waste. Photos by Waste4Change/NOWJAKARTA Who doesn’t love travelling? We get to enjoy new places, new food, new culture and learn about something new! How the destination country manages its waste is one of the things we can learn while

NOW! Jakarta invited stakeholders in food industry to together start raising our awareness of food waste problems via Say Yes to Less campaign. Photos by Raditya Fadilla/NOWJAKARTA NOW! Jakarta made another push towards sustainability by encouraging partners and BRBCA 2019 participants to manage waste responsibly. On 11 July, F&B directors, restaurant owners and managers, DOSMs,

Danone-AQUA is determined to support the Indonesian government to reduce 70% of plastic waste in the ocean by 2025. Photo courtesy of Danone-AQUA/NOWJAKARTA During the Our Ocean Conference (OOC) 2018 in Bali, 29 – 30 October 2018, Danone-AQUA invited all stakeholders to collaborate and create innovation to find solution for the ocean waste problem in

As one of the world’s largest economic sectors, travel & tourism creates jobs and generates prosperity across the world. The sector, comprised of a wide range of industries, serves and supports both domestic and international and business and leisure visitors. Companies, large and small, in industries ranging from accommodation and transportation, to food & beverage,

Aqua takes serious steps in promoting circular economy by launching a fully recyclable bottled water AQUA Life in Jakarta and continuing its campaign #BijakBerplastik. Danone-AQUA has collaborated with Indonesian artists, such a Rebellionik, Ika vantiani, Alfiah Rahdini and Tam Illi to establish artworks and installation from plastic waste. The installation was displayed on the launch of AQUA Life at Gandaria City,

Grand Hyatt Jakarta recently installed 45 photovoltaic panels on its helipad area in order to produce a more sustainable energy at its properties in Central Jakarta. Through a partnership with Plaza Indonesia Tbk and Xurya, Grand Hyatt responded to the Indonesian government’s solar rooftop initiative by using solar panels to reduce their carbon footprint. Grand

Jakarta citizens are often spoiled by clean protocol street, spotless malls and nice and tidy upper-class neighbourhood. But are we really ‘free’ from the waste that we generate? Is Jakarta and Indonesia really clean and free from waste? Packaging and cosmetic container waste from one of Waste4Change's clients, Kiehl's, that will be processed and recycled

Most Indonesians don’t realize that the gold available on the market comes not only from major mining companies, but also from Artisanal and Small-Scale Gold Mining (ASGM) that often use hazardous mercury to process gold.  Fieni Aprilia/UNDP Indonesia, Elisabetta Zavoli Along with seven other countries, Indonesia is carrying out a project called Global Opportunities for

The initiative invites culinary businesses to collaborate in solving Jakarta’s never-ending waste problem and pursuing a circular economy. Say Yes to Less is a program dedicated to restaurants willing to reduce their impact on the environment by segregating waste, reducing food waste and use eco-friendly appliances. Photo by Raditya Fadilla/NOWJAKARTA Experts and stakeholders from the