For your information – the following event is taking place in a few days time in Chiang Mai:
Earth Day Tuesday 22nd April – We Care & Share – Kad Suan Kaew – 9am to 10pm
Sponsored by Toyota Foundation & Min Nat Resources.
Stop Global Warming – Its Everybody’s Responsibility. – Music & Fun for youth.
I think the event is a show. More people will come to listen to the concert and careless about the earth and global warming.
Guess what? You are dead right to say “the event is a show”
I went there at 10 am.
First Two stands inside the door were Japanese Consulate – No photos of Whaling of course.
Then USA Consulate – the No 1 enemy of the World and as if to prove as much they had 3 displays.
House design showing Summer shading from the Sun – Here in the tropics we need shade to a completely different specification.
Biofuels ( President Evo Morales of Bolivia’s comments in NY yesterday were not on show q.v. – Link to article
Transportatoin – pics of airplanes. No high speed TGV of Shin Kan Sen trains – because the USA has NONE.
Then a hideously noisy band started up – how many watts of fossil fuel generated electricity it used I do not know.
I tried to avoid the noise only to find a display – all in Thai – about using local knowledge for forest management – complete with pics of Forest Fire Breaks – Totally useless stuff.
It was time to leave.
Next time we should go prepared and wreck the show.
Meanwhile on Channel News Asia was a nice little story about a lady in Malaya who seperates her househol waste – returning food scraps to Mother Earth and Recyclables to Father Factory.
Ricky missed one exhibition. It was from my project “From Waste to Value”. We encourage people to decompose their waste and revalue things that they discard. I think we should prepare for better event on the Environment Day in June.
I will have a chance to display about global warming in late June at the Airport Plaza. If you want to have a boot there displaying information about global warming and climate change for 3-7 days please let me know quick.