May 30, 2008
World Environment Day 4th June – Global Warming Crisis Alert
What you would like said and done on that day? Please consider writing your ideas and emailing them so they can be shared. Below are some thoughts of mine – Ricky As you may know ICCM member Jere Locke has taken leave of Chiang Mai to campaign to Save the Earth and is presently working against Global Warming in Texas. Jere’s latest report indicates the dire state we have reached and says unless... read more
May 30, 2008
The Inauguration of “Forests in Chiang Mai City”
This is an invitation to The Inauguration of “Forests in Chiang Mai City”. Discussion and Tree Planting. To be opened by Princess Chao Duangdeum na Chiang Mai at 1.30 pm Monday 2nd June 2008. Venue – Christian Church in the Soi behind Rincome Hotel Heay Kaew – Irrigation Rd Intersection opposite the Christian cemetery beside Huey Keow bridge – later a walk downstream to the planting... read more
May 30, 2008
Global Warming Deadlines
First the good news. If you read HEAT by Monbiot you will see that we presently have all the technology that we need to solve the problem. Other good news is that moving from a carbon-based to renewable economy will create a lot of jobs thus solving another problem– our economic downturn. Finally imagine how wonderful it would be to see people all over the world working together to solve a problem of... read more
May 28, 2008
Next ICCM Meeting (Wednesday 4th June 2008)
Just to let you all know that the next ICCM meeting will take place on Wednesday 4th June at Y.M.C.A Santitum (off Tanon Huey Keow opposite Shell petrol station – Follow your nose and then the signs to YMCA) commencing at 5:00 pm R.S.V.P. Ricky Ward read more
May 17, 2008
Queensland Tree Planting Synergy
(Ricky Ward visited TREAT in February and spoke on Friday morning) At the age of 22 in 1968, as a member of a student group, led by the late Jim Cairns MHR, I travelled to Cambodia, the one country in South East Asia not then embroiled in war or military dictatorship. There we went to see the fabulous temples of Angkor in a great forest dominated by tall straight Yang – Dipterocarpus alatus trees. In... read more
