by Ricky Ward | Dec 12, 2022 | General / ทั่วไป
The Thai constitution Section 58 In regard to any undertaking by the State or which the State will permit any person to carry out, if such undertaking may severely affect the natural resources, environmental quality, health, sanitation, quality of life or any other...
by Ricky Ward | Apr 25, 2022 | General / ทั่วไป, Town Planning / การวางผังเมือง, Vegetation / พืซ
We need more trees in Chiang Mai to make it more comfortable for cyclists throughout the day and to help encourage others to get out of their cars and use their bicycles instead. Along the main Irrigation Canal from Mae Daeng, Chiang Mai has paths for cycling and...
by Ricky Ward | Feb 8, 2021 | Climate Change / การเปลี่ยนแปลงสภาพภูมิอากาศ, General / ทั่วไป, Pollution / มลภาวะ
Forest fires in February are in the news again. To put the issue in a wider perspective Dr Johann Goldammer, Director of the Global Fire Monitoring Center (GFMC), Fire Ecology Research Group, Max Planck Institute for Chemistry in Freiburg, Germany has kindly sent this...
by Ricky Ward | Jul 8, 2020 | General / ทั่วไป
Last century, in times when the wealthy travelled by train the Royal Siam Railway built hotels in Hua Hin and one in Chiang Mai just across the road to the North of station.The Chiang Mai Railway Hotel is long gone but the land where it once stood and to its West and...
by Ricky Ward | May 9, 2019 | Climate Change / การเปลี่ยนแปลงสภาพภูมิอากาศ
Smog , Smog , Smog for three months. February to April and then into March, the same pattern we have been writing about for years. This year folk were saying ‘Why not declare a “Smoke Emergency” ?’ The trouble is that it is much, much worse...
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