Category Archives: Environment

Ever Green in Bangkok

April 3, 2008 – 8:15 pm

This week the world’s climate experts are meeting in Bangkok to formalize a plan to deal with climate change, despite FOX NEWS and drivers of SUVs claims that global warming is a hoax perpetrated by the liberal media. The secretary general of the United Nations, Ban Ki Moon, is calling on the representatives to save […]

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Dry Season Pattaya 2008

March 2, 2008 – 11:56 pm

The water is running from my tap and the reservoir seems in good shape, so I have no complaints, however the outer limits of Pattaya was suffering shortages as the hot season finally hits the Eastern Seaboard. Funky old water trucks are sucking the Jomtien lagoons dry. City officials are telling the populace not to […]

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Koh Tao to Ban Plastic bags

February 23, 2008 – 9:57 pm

I visited Koh Tao off the coast of Southern Thailand in 1992. It was a quiet koh famous for its three beach island. The water was crystal clear, although the coral around the island was dead from fishing with poison and dynamite. I haven’t been back to Koh Tao since and I imagine that the tourist strain […]

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Beijing Colder than a Witch’s Tit 2008

February 2, 2008 – 6:47 am

The flight time between Bangkok and the Chinese capitol is about 6 hours. My friend Jocko Weyland lives in Beijing. I phoned him five minutes ago. He was skating on a frozen lake with a Frenchwoman. It almost sounded romatic. The only ice in Pattaya are the cubes in my Chang beer. The early evening […]

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Burning Season Thailand 2008

January 19, 2008 – 4:25 am

This afternoon I set off from my house and thought, “Damn what a beautiful sky.” No smoke in the air. A miracle, until returning to my house I spotted thick grey plume billowing from the northern end of the street. It was not a cloud. It was fire. A brushfire. Call the Fire Dept. Quick. […]

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