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Jul 14, 2010
Railway Park – Community Forest Planting, Stage 2
From 4 pm- 7 pm Sunday 18th July 2010 please join us planting trees in Chiang Mai’s new Community Forest, beside the creek at the NW corner of the Railway Park opposite Chiang Mai Station. Railway Park Entrance The planting will have the theme “Plant a Tree for Democracy” and we invite all Friends of Burma to come and celebrate the 65th Birthday of Democracy Activist Aung San Suu Chi.... read more
Jun 18, 2010
Chiang Mai Railway Station Park planting 5th June 2010 – 35 spp.
Chiang Ma City’s new Community Forest saw its beginning recently with planting at the new Railway Station Park on 5th June 2010 of 200 trees from 35 species. Plant selection and layout was organised by Gum Hak Doi Suthep in conjunction with the Chiang Mai Keow Suay Hom Network : ขะจาว Ulmaceae Holoptelea integrifolia เหว Combretaceae Anogeissus... read more
Feb 14, 2010
Hang Zhou opts for bikes. Why not Chiang Mai?
Chiang Mai is once again talking about how to make our city livable. In the first week of February 2010 a one day meeting was held under the auspices of Tessaban Nakhorn Chiang Mai and the German consulting agency GTZ. To the annoyance of some of the long time Chiang Mai activists GTZ organised speakers in the morning to tell us some facts we already knew and then insisted on spending the whole afternoon... read more
Dec 3, 2009
Shade vs Aircon
Compare these two Chiang Mai buildings: Left a Government School, facing the hot West Sun, Cooled by shady eaves and trees at ground level. Right a Private Hotel, facing hot West Sun, No shade Cooled by air-con, electricity from Mae Moh dirty coal The hotel pollutes the air, kills people in Lampang and pours CO2 into the atmosphere making the World Hotter. Once Chiang Mai had no air-con. Now we... read more
Dec 1, 2009
กำหนดการกิจกรรมรณรงค์วันสิ่งแวดล้อมไทย ปี 2552 วันที่ 4 ธันวาคม – Thai Environment Day 4 Dec 2009
กำหนดการกิจกรรมรณรงค์วันสิ่งแวดล้อมไทย ปี 2552 วันที่ 4 ธันวาคม 2552 ณ ลานอนุสาวรีย์สามกษัตริย์ 3 Kings Monument เวลา 08.00 น. –... read more
