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03 Nov 09
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Road to Copenhagen: Waiting for America photo: adopt a negotiator via flickr
As the last round of "intersessional" climate talks before Copenhagen opened yesterday in Barcelona, all eyes were looking in the same direction they were when we left Bangkok three weeks earlier: at the United... |
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12 Oct 09
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Q&A: Antonio Hill, Oxfam's Climate Envoy, Sees Progress, But We Need a "Major Turnaround" Civil societies protested in front of the UN conference center in Bangkok, demanding rich nations to step up efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
By the time climate talks in Bangkok wrapped up last week, developing nations hadn't only accused the... |
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09 Oct 09
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EU Sides with Corrupt African Governments to Block Stronger REDD Forest Protection Scheme photo: World Resources Institute via flickr.
With the latest (and second-to-last) round of negotiations before COP15 just finished in Bangkok, the gap between rich and poor nations on each other's responsibilities, by many accounts, has not narrowed.... |
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09 Oct 09
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Did Rich Countries Leave Bangkok Climate Talks in Stalemate? Now, the Final Stretch to Copenhagen
Time to loosen those collars. After a tough mock trial and tougher words, the world's richest and poorest nations have left 11 days of climate talks in Bangkok with little to show for it, a month and a half before the... |
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08 Oct 09
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Bangkok Showdown: China, Rich Countries Spar Over Climate Obligations Cutting Remarks
Yesterday, at a mock trial that found the U.S. and other wealthy nations responsible for climate change, China was all but absent.
But in the real world of climate negotiations, China was critical of developed countries' insistence that... |
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05 Oct 09
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China Says US & Rich Nations Sabotaging Climate Treaty photo: UNFCCC
At UN climate talks in Bangkok -- the second to last talks before the COP15 summit in Copenhagen -- the Guardian reports that China's special representative on climate change has accused the United States other industrialized nations of... |
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20 Aug 09
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Readers, Send Us Your Eco-Vacation Photos! Luxury eco-friendly resort Chumphon Cabana Resort & Diving Center in Chumphon, Thailand. Credit Chumphon Cabana |
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17 Aug 09
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Neat Little Shipping Container Prefab Built in Bangkok Thai designer Chutayaves Sinthuphan of Site-Specific first made a splash in these pages with a demonstration project at a home show; now they show us a neat little one-bedroom house built from two 20 foot containers designed for hot, humid... |
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12 Aug 09
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Bangladesh Gets $19 Million from US & Germany for Reforestation Project In addition to increasing the carbon sequestration potential of the region, migratory routes for Asian elephants (pictured here in Thailand) will be repaired. Photo: OxOx via flickr.
A couple weeks ago Bangladesh's environment minister outlined how the... |
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01 Aug 09
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Rice Biodiversity Techniques Remain Intact in Rural Thailand photo: Food Mapping
As with other high yield crops like rice, meant to feed large groups of people on the cheap, domesticated crops are chosen to be grown in mass often leaving the crop’s biodiversity in jeopardy. But thanks to the time honored ri... |
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29 Jul 09
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5 Super Cheap, Green Beach Resorts Photo via Chumphon Cabana Resort & Diving Center
Although going green doesn't have to mean spending a bundle, it's much easier to find a luxury eco-friendly resort than it is to find a cheap one. But we found five beach-centered resorts in areas all... |
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22 May 09
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Slash-and-Burn Agriculture Isn't Great For Southeast Asia's Forest, But Monoculture Plantations are Even Worse Rubber plantation in Thailand, photo: Gaetan Lee (CC) via flickr
Slash-and-burn agriculture has often been cited as not exactly being the most eco-friendly thing for forests. But, as a new report in Science magazine and summed up over at Mongabay shows,... |
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18 Feb 09
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Green Container Housing Demo in Thailand Designers Site-Specific and Buatalah Studio were asked to design an exhibition around the theme of ‘Green Home Effects’ for a Bangkok home show. According to Site-Specific's website, "to build an earth-friendly house is not as simple as placing some s... |
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13 Feb 09
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Tropical Nations’ Artistic Legacy Endangered by Climate Change, UN Urges Protection Lack of funds for preservation + climate change = many cultural objects could be lost. Musical instruments in Thailand, photo: Sandor Weisz via flickr
While it may have the same sort of immediate, human interest magnitude as say entire islands becoming... |
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23 Jan 09
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Train Charter Trips Boom (Despite Swedes' Fondness for Planes to Thailand) Photo of a Swedish train by hgaronfolo1984 @ flickr.
Leisure travel is a Swedish pastime almost as integrated into the culture as filmjölk (sour cultured milk), Swedish meatballs, and moose hunting. Swedes know their international travel habits generat... |
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27 Oct 08
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Buddhist Temple Built from Beer Bottles Fifty years ago the Heineken Beer company looked at reshaping its beer bottle to be useful as a building block. It never happened, so Buddhist monks from Thailand's Sisaket province took matters into their own hands and collected a million bottles to... |
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18 Jul 08
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Upcycled Art, Thailand's Organic Princess and Summer-ey Tom's Shoes An eco-conscientious artist creates mosaics using discarded take-out menus, business cards, junk mail and other paper trash.
Thailand's princess, Maha Chakri Sirindhorn, calls on residents of Nan to plant organic gardens.
Tom's shoes make a... |
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02 Apr 08
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Quote Of The Day: From David Doniger This quote comes from coverage of the ongoing meeting of the Kyoto Convention parties, being held in Bankok Thailand.
""To use short-term economics as an excuse not to tackle global warming is opportunism," said David Doniger, climate policy chief at the... |
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04 Mar 08
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Thai Hotel Rooms Power Up Only When You're There Gina Trapani, editor of Lifehacker, wrote about a trip she just took with some friends to Thailand. This in particular caught our eye:
At two of the three moderate to high-priced hotels I stayed at (between $26 and $80/night), the power was only on in... |
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15 Jan 08
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Ango Lighting by Angus Hutcheson Angus Hutcheson is an AA grad now based in Thailand, developing product and architectural designs. He uses natural, highly renewable materials including timber, raw silk, tree bark and silk cocoons that require minimal energy to process.
When a silk... |
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14 Oct 07
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Five Asian Nations To Study How To Cope With Floods The United Nations University of Thailand will conduct a three-month course for experts from five Asian countries that will explore risks and model strategies to deal with Asia’s worsening floods and rising sea levels, both of which have been associat... |
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