David on Formosa

I sent a letter about climate change to the Taipei Times on 7 January, but as of today it hasn’t been published (Update: published on 17 January). The Taipei Times published this letter on climate change today (which contains some ridiculous claims) and also Johnny Neihu took an amusing look at the qualities of Shezi [...]

When I got off the train in Fulong (福隆) yesterday afternoon there was a bit of cloud cover and a sea breeze making the temperature a little more bearable than in Taipei. While many people come to Fulong to cool off at the beach I headed to the area in front of the Dongxing Temple [...]

The TITV report* in the video embedded above is about a protest against nuclear waste in Taidong held at Ximending in Taipei on 28 June. The government of Taiwan is seeking to relocate the nuclear waste currently stored on Orchid Island to a new location. A report in the Taipei Times provides a good summary [...]

The National Energy Conference currently being held in Taipei has pushed energy issues into the spotlight. This comes on the back of news earlier this week that German wind power company InfraVest threatened to withdraw from Taiwan if the government did not implement policies to support renewable energy.
At the conference President Ma called on the [...]

A few days ago the Taiwan News reported  global warming is causing Taiwan’s sea level to rise:
Sea levels around the world are gradually on the rise due to global warming, said the report. In his research several years ago, Fan discovered that Taiwan’s sea level was rising at an annual average of 0.32 cm, higher [...]

Green Party candidate for the Taipei City No. 6 District by-election, Calvin Wen (溫炳原), spent 26 hours in a camphor tree on the site of the Old Songshan Tobacco Factory (松山菸廠) in Taipei to protest and prevent its removal.

The protest began on Friday afternoon as Green Party Taiwan members discovered the last tree was about [...]

There are a few recent articles on transport issues that I would like to comment on.

I snapped this photo of a green electric bus in Taipei on 1 January. The bus is currently being shown at an international conference on vehicle greenhouse gas reduction technologies in Taipei. It runs on a Li-ion battery that gives [...]

I came across this article in the Taipei Times today which noted that parts of central and southern Taiwan are yet to record any rainfall this year! The article mentions concerns about an imminent drought and then goes on to say,
The Ministry of Economic Affairs’ Water Resources Agency issued a warning on Tuesday about a [...]