A new addition to Kuala Lumpur’s host of luxury residential developments is being planned. Like others, it comes complete with amenities like a 50-yard lap pool, 100 retail shops, a garden lounge, penthouse and other recreational facilities. Unlike the rest, the project has been designed from the very beginning with…
Reflective panels that capture the sun’s light, a roof that gets watered, and a central tower shaded by swathes of creeping ivy characterize a recent extension to the JST Malaysia factory in Johor. The project aims to use the power of rainwater, sunlight, wind, geothermal heat and vegetation to minimize…
In the small tin-mining town of Tanjung Tualang, a farm from the future has been introduced. Using late-breaking sustainable agriculture technology, solar power, recycled rainwater, greenhouses and automated harvesting systems, the facility has been entrusted to the locals and runs as a flagship project for forward-thinking agriculture. This unheard-of gift…
One of the world’s biggest solar panel producers is about to open up shop in Penang, Malaysia. Excitement has been rallied over the over JA Solar’s brand new RM300 million (US$70 million) facility and it’s been hailed as a furtherment of Malaysia’s goal to become a regional hub for green…
For some years now, Malaysia has had its eyes set on the goal of becoming a regional hub for green technology. By driving socio-economic growth with green industries like renewable energy, environmental technology and sustainable construction, Malaysia hopes to expand in a way that profits its people and environment as…
Spirits were lifted and hopes raised for sustainability last year when plans for Malaysia’s first geothermal power plant were publicized in Sabah, Eastern Malaysia. After the discovery of geothermal surface manifestations in a 50 square-kilometer area near the town of Tawau, it was determined that the area had the potential to…
Kuala Lumpur loses an estimated RM5.5billion ($1.3billion) in productivity every year due to traffic. In fact, every one of Malaysia’s major cities has a nasty traffic problem, and together they create a big, ugly obstacle to sustainable development. With bus lines backed up, public transportation expansions years away from completion and…
Malaysia was singled out for its innovative achievements upon the release of this year’s Global Innovation Index rankings earlier this month. The honorable mention speaks to Malaysia’s social and economic growth, but leaves something to be explained considering the country’s troubled state. A worldwide rating system for innovation, the Global…
Malaysia’s landfills are spilling over, its recycling rates are low and the country is making more trash than its infrastructure can handle, but an environmental waste management company has an idea that could solve all these problems at once. SP Multitech is a company providing environmental waste management in Malaysia. …
A research team at University Malaysia Pahang (UMP) has just developed the world’s first stable perovskite solar module. This might not mean much to the casual reader, but perovskite cells could be the future of solar power, and Malaysia has just found the key to unlocking their power. The reason…
As Malaysia’s flagship green technology conference and exhibition rolls onward, the disposition of all things green business are looking sunnier and sunnier for the country playing host. Aggressive green tech goals are being set, groundbreaking deals are being made and IGEM 2015’s theme of ‘Powering the Green Economy’ is being…
IGEM 2015 is in full swing, and the massive international convention of green businesses has seen Kuala Lumpur become a temporary mecca of all things high-tech and/or sustainable. This year’s event is the sixth of its kind. Together, the previous have generated RM6 billion ($1.4 billion) in green business leads,…
A grassroots, volunteer-based effort bent on saving electricity in Malaysia is shedding light on the country’s need to think about responsible energy consumption. Called The Negawatt Revolution, it is a movement to instill sustainable habits in the minds of Malaysian citizens. For a long time, ten-year Malaysian resident and Negawatt…
Malaysia has been one of the world’s largest producers and exporters of palm oil for the last forty years. Resulting in great environmental controversy, the palm oil industry has also built economies, seen explosive demand increases, found its way into a staggering range of products around the world and lately,…
At Universiti Malaya in Kuala Lumpur, students and professors are hard at work finding out how to turn red algae into biofuel. Cheap to produce and utilizing none of Asia’s short supply of farmland, red algae could be a breakthrough in energy production. Farming it doesn’t contribute to any of…
A one-stop online reference for assessing the potential for renewable energy in Malaysia is pointing sustainable prospectors in the direction of a bright green future. Malaysian innovation and technology firm SIRIM came up a few years ago with a fully interactive online map that keeps track of untapped renewable energy…