Category Archives: Environment

China Bans Plastic Bags

January 13, 2008 – 11:55 pm

Whenever I wave off a plastic bag at 7/11, the clerks regard my refusal with a bemused wonderment. “Farang bah.”  I get a cloned response from witness to my pathetic attempts to clear the beach of plastic bags.” “Farang bah. Phunee talay ja hai hai thongs plastic eck” They are right.

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Doomsday Compromise in Bali

December 15, 2007 – 11:17 pm

Two weeks of bitter talks in Bali ended with the US compromising on a plan to start decreasing carbon emissions by 2009 in order to deal with worldwide rising temperatures. Only problem is that we may be too late, despite U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon declaring, “This is the beginning, not the end.” The jungles of […]

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Pattaya Beach Rating – Ban Amphur

November 12, 2007 – 11:55 pm

Pattaya and Jomtien are not the only beaches on the Eastern Seaboard, although I’d bet that more than half the bar farangs coming to Pattaya have never touched the sand on the beach, unless it was to get a sexual favor from a ka-toey working the Beach Road. The number is probably greater than half. […]

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Save the World and Pattaya too

September 19, 2007 – 10:11 pm

The BBC News carried a story about a New York family radically decreasing their environmental impact. No refrigerator. No AC. No TV. No elevator No toilet paper. No plastic. Mr. Beavan has turned off his electricity, except for what he can harvest from a solar panel. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/7000991.stm Enough for one lightbulb and a laptop. I’m […]

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World’s Top 10 Polluted Places

September 14, 2007 – 11:46 pm

The BBC News published a list of the places that the Blacksmith institute considers ’most polluted on earth’ for 2007. Sumgayit, Azerbaijan with its petrochemical complexes won the gold. The two runners-up were as expected from China, however I was surprised not to see Rayong’s infamous Map Ta Phut Industrial Estate. if you click on Map […]

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