by Ricky Ward | Feb 24, 2016 | General / ทั่วไป, Pollution / มลภาวะ
The annual northern Thai smoke haze problem is with us again and a nationwide system of automated air quality monitoring stations provides information on up to 12 pollution parameters reported at two hourly intervals and available for public access. Reports can be...
by Ricky Ward | Feb 1, 2016 | General / ทั่วไป, Sustainable Travel / การท่องเที่ยวอย่างยั่งยืน, Vegetation / พืซ
McKean Center Destruction 1st February 2016 This week many of Chiang Mai’s biggest Heritage trees are being cut down. At the McKean Rehabilitation Center a great swathe is being cut through trees along the western road which links the two cottage villages....
by Ricky Ward | Jan 14, 2016 | General / ทั่วไป, Pollution / มลภาวะ
Note: Click on a photo above, and then again to zoom in and in comparing the two the lack of clarity is due to a high load of smoke from the government prescribed burning. PM10 pollution levels as of yesterday were in the mid 70’s . The EU standard above which...
by Ricky Ward | Jan 14, 2016 | General / ทั่วไป, Pollution / มลภาวะ
From Chiang Mai film maker Marisa Marchitelli Dear all, In one of my interviews with a mother from Prem, she mentioned that she was able to find a PM2.5 reading for Chiang Mai which is something I hadn’t heard from anyone else. Indeed it’s true! Go to the link below...
by Ricky Ward | Jan 14, 2016 | Climate Change / การเปลี่ยนแปลงสภาพภูมิอากาศ, General / ทั่วไป
Reversing Global Warming by Changing Agricultural Methods by Richard Frans… email: rfrans[at]gmail.com The Paris Climate Change Conference has ended and the leaders of the world have made their pledges to reduce the heating of the climate to under 2 degrees...
by Ricky Ward | Nov 2, 2015 | General / ทั่วไป, Town Planning / การวางผังเมือง, Vegetation / พืซ
Two old men sat on the park bench. Although they came from opposite quarters of the world they shared a common mother tongue as they met in a third quarter, a place where foreign tongues were ill understood, even unwelcome. Two eccentrics; two bicyclists; two...
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