Pulitzer Center Reporting Inspires Rainforest Art Exhibition in Bangkok. BANGKOK, Thailand The Pulitzer Center will host the Our Roots, Our Forest art exhibition at the Bangkok Art and Culture Centre (BACC) November 29-December 12, 2022. The exhibition will spotlight underreported stories about the rainforests through the work of regional artists responding to the change they are witnessing around them. Southeast Asia is home to nearly 15 percent of the world’s tropical forests and 20 percent of global plant, animal, and marine species. But the region also has one of the world’s highest rates of deforestation, losing 1.2 percent of rainforest annually from 2013. In the Mekong Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar, Thailand, and Vietnam the people are up against major challenges: big business, huge infrastructural plans, and weak governance as money is extracted from shared forest resources, and natural defenses from dangerous carbon dioxide levels are hacked back and sold. Inspired by t
Through Precious Plastic, environmentalist Dominic Puwasawat Chakrabongse hopes to foster a nation-wide circular economy
After earning a bachelor’s degree in environmental policy from the London School of Economics, Dominic Puwasawat Chakrabongse pursued his passion for environment conservation with several NGOs around the globe. On returning to Thailand he was shocked by Bangkok’s overwhelming abundance of trash and decided take action. “I wanted to do something that was community driven and emphasised the circular economy,” he says. “That’s how Precious Plastic Thailand came about. It was born out of this effort to inspire and empower ordinary people across the country to change their perception of plastic and understand that it can be turned into something new and valuable.”