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		<title>5-6 August &#8211; Fire &amp; Resources Budget Seminar</title>
		<link>http://www.ourchiangmai.com/2010/07/28/5-6-august-fire-resources-budget-seminar/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Jul 2010 06:44:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ricky Ward</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Climate Change]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Pollution]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[พืซ / Vegetation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[air quality]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[On Thursday, Friday 5-6 August 2010
A Fire &#38; Resource Protection 2011  Budget Seminar
sponsored by Khun Sunya  of the Ministry of Natural Resources &#38; Environment will be held at
Pucome Hotel, Corner Huey Keow &#38; Irrigation Canal Rds
Persons invited include the Mayor of Chiang Mai, and heads of nearby Tessabans and Sub-District Organisations.
The public is welcome and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The bottle story &#8211; &amp; Thai Text</title>
		<link>http://www.ourchiangmai.com/2010/07/26/the-bottle-story-thai-text/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ourchiangmai.com/2010/07/26/the-bottle-story-thai-text/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Jul 2010 12:16:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ricky Ward</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Climate Change]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Pollution]]></category>

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The Story of Bottled Water (2010)







The bottle story
this is a story about a world obsessed with stuff
นี่เป็นเรื่องของโลกที่ถูกกดดันโดยข้าวของ
0:10
it&#8217;s a story about a system in crisis.
มันเป็นเรื่องวิกฤตของระบบ
0:13
we&#8217;re trashing the planet
เรากำลัง ทำลายโลกของเรา
0:14
we&#8217;re trashing each other
เรากำลังทำลาย เพื่อนมนุษย์
0:16
and we&#8217;re not even having fun
นี่ไม่ใช่เรื่อล้อเล่น
0:19
the good thing, is that when we start to understand the system
มองในแง่ดี เพราะเรากำลังจะเข้าใจระบบ
0:22
we can see lots of places to step in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Railway Park &#8211; Community Forest Planting, Stage 2</title>
		<link>http://www.ourchiangmai.com/2010/07/14/railway-park-community-forest-planting-stage-2/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ourchiangmai.com/2010/07/14/railway-park-community-forest-planting-stage-2/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Jul 2010 17:30:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ricky Ward</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Town Planning]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[พืซ / Vegetation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[community]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[From 4 pm- 7 pm Sunday 18th July 2010 please join us planting trees in Chiang Mai&#8217;s new Community Forest, beside the creek at the NW corner of the Railway Park opposite Chiang Mai Station.
The planting will have the theme &#8220;Plant a Tree for Democracy&#8221; and we invite all Friends of Burma to come and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>NCCN Climate Change, Crisis or Catastrophe?</title>
		<link>http://www.ourchiangmai.com/2010/07/12/nccn-climate-change-crisis-or-catastrophe/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ourchiangmai.com/2010/07/12/nccn-climate-change-crisis-or-catastrophe/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Jul 2010 14:14:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ricky Ward</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[General]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Chiang Mai&#8217;s Northern Climate Change Network met  recently and the meeting notes circulated are presented below. At the end comes a question about a suggested change in the group&#8217;s name first mooted in 2009 a.d. Comments on this and other matters are welcome.
NCCN meeting: 5pm-7pm, Wed, June 7, 2010, 
Creative Urban Solutions Center
Present: 
K Duognchan (Urban Development [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Athenian Democracy comes to Chiang Mai &#8211; 4:30 pm 8th July 2010</title>
		<link>http://www.ourchiangmai.com/2010/06/30/athenian-democracy-comes-to-chiang-mai-430-pm-8th-july-2010/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ourchiangmai.com/2010/06/30/athenian-democracy-comes-to-chiang-mai-430-pm-8th-july-2010/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Jun 2010 08:58:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ricky Ward</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[General]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Perhaps the title is an exaggeration, but before this year&#8217;s Songkran Festival a delegation from Gum Hak Doi Suthep visited Chiang Mai Mayor Tessanai and discussed the idea of having a monthly public meeting for Chiang Mai folk where Municipal activities could be discussed and where both the public and Council could share news and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Burma &#8211; Best Friend Library, Wanting to help or considering a visit to Burma?</title>
		<link>http://www.ourchiangmai.com/2010/06/30/burma-best-friend-library-wanting-to-help-or-considering-a-visit-to-burma/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ourchiangmai.com/2010/06/30/burma-best-friend-library-wanting-to-help-or-considering-a-visit-to-burma/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Jun 2010 08:41:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ricky Ward</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[General]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Chiang Mai residents and visitors wishing to know more about Burma are invited to
visit the Best Friend Library at:
Nong Bee’s Burmese Restaurant
28 Nimmanhaemin Road,
Chiang Mai, Thailand
http://www.thebestfriend.org/chiangmai/  for details
The following is a list of Garrett&#8217;s 10 Essential Books about Modern Burma which are available for loan at the library.
Christina Fink     Living Silence in Burma: Surviving Under [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Chiang Mai Railway Station Park planting 5th June 2010 &#8211; 35 spp.</title>
		<link>http://www.ourchiangmai.com/2010/06/18/chiang-mai-railway-station-park-planting-5th-june-2010-35-spp/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ourchiangmai.com/2010/06/18/chiang-mai-railway-station-park-planting-5th-june-2010-35-spp/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Jun 2010 13:47:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ricky Ward</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Town Planning]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[พืซ / Vegetation]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Chiang Ma City&#8217;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 acuminata


ยมหอม
Meliaceae
Toona ciliata


ชมพูู่หว้ย
Myrtaceae
Eugenia formosa


มะองนก
Euphorbiaceae
Drypetes roxburghii


มะตุ้ม
Meliaceae
Aphanamixis [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Negotiations on track for 4 degrees</title>
		<link>http://www.ourchiangmai.com/2010/06/08/negotiations-on-track-for-4-degrees/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ourchiangmai.com/2010/06/08/negotiations-on-track-for-4-degrees/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Jun 2010 07:01:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ricky Ward</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[General]]></category>

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June 7, 2010
Civil Society Analysis of Climate Negotiations Warns
(Jubilee South) BONN, Germany – Today, civil society organizations from across the globe have released a statement analyzing the state of UN climate negotiations after one week of talks in Bonn – with the current state of the negotiations suggesting the world is on track for a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ancient Forest Under Threat &#8211; Mae Taeng, Chiang Mai</title>
		<link>http://www.ourchiangmai.com/2010/06/05/ancient-forest-under-threat-mae-taeng-chiang-mai/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ourchiangmai.com/2010/06/05/ancient-forest-under-threat-mae-taeng-chiang-mai/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 05 Jun 2010 16:07:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ricky Ward</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[พืซ / Vegetation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[trees]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[These pictures are of the most beautiful stand of Lagerstroemia calyculata in Chiang Mai province. The locals , however view it as a place to throw trash, including beer bottles which they then burn. How do we change this? Location is one km south of the main road to Pai on a picturesque back road where the traveller can avoid much of the everyday ugliness of Thailand.]]></description>
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		<title>Tree Planting Event at the Elephant Nature Park &#8211; 3rd July 2010</title>
		<link>http://www.ourchiangmai.com/2010/06/03/tree-planting-event-at-the-elephant-nature-park-3rd-july-2010/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ourchiangmai.com/2010/06/03/tree-planting-event-at-the-elephant-nature-park-3rd-july-2010/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Jun 2010 08:27:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alan Bull</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[General]]></category>

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Bring the Elephant Home is organizing a tree planting event to support the Elephant Nature Park and to create a future elephant jungle.
Last year the Elephant Nature Park was able to buy a new piece of land. The property is about 100 acres, surrounded by protected forests, and has some beautiful streams running through it. [...]]]></description>
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