Posted in Green shoots - The developing world and climate change on Apr 25th, 2010
By invitation, Sendsomeflowers.co.uk, a company with a similar ethos to ours, have kindly agreed to write a post on climate change:
The issue of climate change seems to have shot up the political agenda in recent years and nowadays everyone seems to be talking about the environment. With so many news stories flying around it can […]
Posted in Green shoots - The developing world and climate change on Jun 16th, 2009
A study commissioned by the premier online eco retailer www.e-photoframes.co.uk, written here in Both Thai and English, has found that the high market price of a particular type of wild mushroom, Hed Thob, and its lucrative allure of potentially doubling a farmer’s yearly income, is one of the main factors underpinning the deliberate setting of forest fires. […]
Posted in Green shoots - The developing world and climate change on Mar 15th, 2009
The following blog is an account of a recent trek into the forest reserves of Mae-On district, an area of Northern Thailand where I’m carrying out a study into the ‘Causes and Effects of Deliberate Fire Burning’ – a phenomenon that occurs every year during the dry season (Nov-April). The clearing of land for agricultural […]
Posted in Green shoots - The developing world and climate change on Feb 25th, 2009
The last blog that I posted explained how fires in the Northern region of Thailand are depleting soil fertility and stunting the growth of forests. However, since then I have witnessed a separate phenomenon, which has me somewhat stunted too-Fire Induced Growth.
Having witnessed first hand, fires burning and the scorched black earth left in its […]
Posted in Green shoots - The developing world and climate change, Site Development on Feb 12th, 2009
The recent forest fires in Victoria state, Australia have shown the world just how severe forest fires can be, in the S.E state temperatures have soared to nearly 50 degrees causing the tinder box forests surrounding Melbourne to ignite into ferocious fireballs destroying everything in their path, including the lives of nearly 200 people. Such […]
Posted in Green shoots - The developing world and climate change on Jan 25th, 2009
Each year, during the Dry Season Jan-April, the hills of Northern Thailand are ablaze with fires. Hunting, Land Management and Mushroom collecting are believed to be some of the main reasons behind the fires, such a scenario leads to towns and cities becoming clogged with smoke pollution causing all manner of problems, effecting local economies, […]
Posted in Green shoots - The developing world and climate change on Oct 22nd, 2007
Today there have been two quite extraordinary headlines in Thailand: 1. Bangkok could be under water in 15 years time 2. 65% of Thai voters would be willing to take bribes in a general election.
Bangkok is losing the battle against the rising sea at a rate of a staggering 13cm a year (see Guardian). At […]
Posted in Green shoots - The developing world and climate change on Oct 17th, 2007
The internet is a wonderful thing. Particularly if your first language is English. Estimates vary, but up to 80% of the worlds websites are thought to be in English. Now you may well think that’s okay since large chunks of the world’s population speak English as a second language. Of course this is true, but […]
Posted in Green shoots - The developing world and climate change on Oct 10th, 2007
The second time I met Valmik Thapar was at the Waterloo Imex cinema, where he was hosting a film on Tigers. I don’t really recall too much about the film, but I do remember a question I didn’t ask him. It was a Friday night and one of our group had had a tipple too […]
Posted in Green shoots - The developing world and climate change on Oct 3rd, 2007
Green shoots - a view from the ground of climate change and the developing world
“Ang Gep Naam”. The Thai word for reservoir. It literally translates as “The sink that keeps water”. In northern Thailand right now these sinks are at best half full. In some cases almost empty. Used for watering paddy fields rather than […]
