by Ricky Ward | Feb 27, 2016 | General / ทั่วไป, Pollution / มลภาวะ
“Why is the air pollution so severe early in the Smoky Season?” many people are asking. “Last year, the number of days when haze was above safety levels between Jan 1 – Feb 24 totalled only seven, compared with 25 in the same period this...
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...
by Ricky Ward | Sep 25, 2015 | General / ทั่วไป
กิจกรรมปั่นเพื่อแม่ข่า 23rd September 2015 This event involving around 60 police and soldiers students and bike club members rode from the Three Kings to Pa Daet and then to Tessaban Mae Kha. I rode as far as Pa Daet without my camera but these pics from Google Earth...
by Ricky Ward | Sep 11, 2015 | Education / การศึกษา, General / ทั่วไป, Vegetation / พืซ
August 28th 2015 a.d. Ten years on from initial tree planting at Huai Teng Tao by Gum Hak Doi Suthep and students and staff from Payap International College English Program join the effort to restore the floral biodiversity to Chiang Mai’s premier recreation...
by Ricky Ward | Sep 10, 2015 | General / ทั่วไป, Sustainable Travel / การท่องเที่ยวอย่างยั่งยืน, Vegetation / พืซ
Or is it 24 more? Four more YangNa are to be axed for road widening is what I was told today at the Roads Department head office on the Super Hwy near the Chiangmai Promenada shopping center. Mahodol Rd at Nong Hoi is two lane ( each way) roads officer Mr Somchai...
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