186 Index
environmental 4–5; green economy
108; as green modernizer 10–11; green
public sphere 99–100, 107; greenspeak
discourse 99, 107; health risks and
environmental issues 106–7; impact of
non-official monitoring 123–5; lifestyle
television programmes 104–7; Low
Carbon Everyday TV programme 109–
10; politization of environmental issues
101; responses to green messages 108;
stability maintenance 101; state media
101–7, 108–9; television programmes
104–7, 108–10; Travel TV 108–9. See
also air quality monitoring in China
Chua Beng Huat 8
cities. See urban farming
City in a Garden, Singapore as 68–9
civil society in South East Asia 4, 5
clothing practices 30
comfort practices. See thermal comfort
commodification: of ‘green’ in China
107–10; of nature and eco-tourism in
the Philippines 92–3
communities: of actors 12; revitalization of
148, 150
community farming in Hong Kong: bread
making workshop 174–5; campaign of
172–4; civic engagement of consum-
ers 174–6; extended campaign 179–80;
farm tours 173–4; farming as political
concern 181–2; founding of Ma Shi Po
172; growth of movement 181; impact
of 178–9; increasing Chinese influence
in area 180–1; indigenous inhabitants
of Hong Kong 170; and local identity
180–1; media coverage 174; New Ter-
ritories of Hong Kong 170; permacul-
ture workshop 176–9; political and
social concerns of 177–9; real estate
dominance 170–1, 176; as redefining
local activism 169–70; resistance to
corporate power 176; vanishing farm-
lands 170–1. See also natural farming
in Taiwan; urban farming
consumption: Asian middle classes 7–8;
China, practices in 107–10; consumer-
oriented television in China 105; ethical
consumption, temporal/spatial ramifica-
tions of 38; green and ethical consumer
markets 5; hybrid 77, 78
cooperative living associations in Korea:
alternative food supply chain 142; alter-
native media, use of 146–8; civil/state
power 146; dure (cooperative labor)
143, 148–9; Dure living co-op 148;
encouragement of 142; equality and
sustainability 144, 151; food produc-
tion communities 149–50; Hansalim
149–50; Hope Institute 142; key issues
146; lack of research into 143; local
food production 149–50; ma-eul 148,
150; ‘moving back to the village’
phenomenon 142–3, 150–1; neoliber-
alism in Korea 145; podcasts 147–8;
revitalization of communities 150;
Seongmisan ma-eul 148; social enter-
prise 144–5; socio-political climate
142–3; sustainability and economic
development 143
cosmopolitian perspective 11
culinary experiences in Singapore 74–7
culture as capitalist strategy in Singapore
66Disneyization 73
domestic eco-tourism. See Philippines,
eco-tourism in
dure (cooperative labor) 143, 148–9
Dussel, E.D. 8–9eating. See food and eating
eco-culture, Singapore as 68–9; air-con-
ditioning usage 21, 22 ; Changi Airport
71, 71–3, 72, 73 ; as City in a Garden
68–9; culture/nature/affect combination
68–9; as eco-culture 68–9; experience
economy 70–3, 71, 72, 73 ; food and
eating 74–7, 77–8; Gardens by the Bay
project 69; as Global City of Buzz 67;
greening of 67–8; hybrid consumption
78; memory and food 77–8; senses,
exploitation of 69–73, 71, 72, 73, 77–8;
synaesthesia 77; themed environments
73, 77; urban wilds 68–9; wildlife en-
counters 75–6; zoos and bird sanctuar-
ies 75–6, 78
eco-tourism. See eco-culture, Singapore as;
Philippines, eco-tourism in
economic development: real estate devel-
opment in Hong Kong 170–1, 176; and
sustainability 143
Edo 165
education and moblogs 131
engineering, thermal comfort as domain of
24–6, 25
environmental movement in South East
Asia 4–6