by Ricky Ward | Dec 16, 2012 | General / ทั่วไป, Pollution / มลภาวะ
When I began this report I was lost for words, and the words I had were not the answers to the questions I asked. Perhaps we can begin to find these by looking back and here is a clue to where we are and perhaps why we see what we see. The photo was...
by Ricky Ward | Dec 3, 2012 | General / ทั่วไป, Pollution / มลภาวะ, Vegetation / พืซ
December 4th each year is celebrated as Thai Environment Day and this year 2012 marks the third anniversary of a program to improve the environment of Chiang Mai’s polluted Mae Kha Canal. The Beginning The site of the inauguration ceremony, opposite the large...
by Ricky Ward | Dec 2, 2012 | General / ทั่วไป, Vegetation / พืซ
If Father is wise he will want to see the forests destroyed in his time replanted to give hope to his descendants. This means of course planting trees, an activity for the early part of the rainy season which in Chiang Mai can be from June onwards. By the time the...
by Ricky Ward | Nov 29, 2012 | General / ทั่วไป, Vegetation / พืซ
In September 2012, shortly before his promotion to Bangkok, MR Panadda Diskul, Governor of Chiang Mai received a delegation of tree lovers. The delegation spoke of the importance of planting indigenous, rather than exotic trees and asked that the protection and care...
by Ricky Ward | Nov 24, 2012 | General / ทั่วไป
At the beginning of November 2012, I took a short trip to Phrae and Nan. So nice to escape the gridlock of Chiang Mai and in Phrae to take a long swim in their 50 metre public pool where entry remains at 20 baht for an adult. It is now one year since the Chiang Mai...
by Ricky Ward | Nov 7, 2012 | General / ทั่วไป, Town Planning / การวางผังเมือง, Vegetation / พืซ
Readers of Chiang Mai City Life October 2012 issue may have read, or yawned past, an article there on the new “Town Planning Scheme” soon to be imposed on Chiang Mai by the authorities in Bangkok. To make sense of the photos and discussion below, it is...
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