Posted on June 13, 2010 by Rizky
Today we continued our journey to Buntu Batu, but unfortunately, today will be the last day of our upcountry sustainability tour. But it’s ok. Everything that we experienced together is so awesome! Well, I guess it’s fair enough. So here, we visited another cocoa clinic and got an explanation of the development process created by the cocoa...
Posted on June 09, 2010 by Rizky
Today we spent time visiting the islands of Barrang Lompo and Pulau Badi. On these islands we aim to check the results of the continuation of marine aquaculture cooperation between Indonesia, PT Mars Symbioscience and the science faculty of Maritime Affairs and Fisheries at Hasanuddin University. Here too we could see development efforts,...
Posted on June 09, 2010 by Jesse
Spent the day visiting the islands of Barang Lompo and Badi (just 12km off the Makassar coast) to check up on the progress of Mars-sponsored mariculture efforts, which include projects to rehabilitate coral reefs to restore fish habitats, and activities to grow various sea creatures for sale to restaurants and for fish tanks (located at two Comments (0) | Continue Reading
Posted on June 07, 2010 by Joe
Indonesia has been great so far. It’s a little of what I expected and I a lot of what I hadn’t. We spent the last two days overcoming jetlag and enjoying Denpasar, and between the cultural introductions, surf lessons (I even managed to ride a wave of two) and a paper making tour the experience has been amazing. Tomorrow we depart for
Posted on June 06, 2010 by Jesse
We started bright and early on this beautiful Sunday morning for a tour of the facility where cocoa paper is made for Mars’ MyCocoaPaper products. From bulk bags of cacao tree bark to the finished sheets of paper lying out to dry in the hot sun, the process that turns cocoa tree prunings into the pulp that is spread out to make sheets of paper...
