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Sustainably Yours: Why COVID-19 gives me hope for climate change

Sustainably Yours: Why COVID-19 gives me hope for climate change

Green Thoughts: ‘The Tropic Gardener’

Green Thoughts: ‘The Tropic Gardener’

Green Thoughts: Flowers of fortune and good luck

Green Thoughts: Flowers of fortune and good luck

Reduce, Reuse, Recycle, Reward. Redux

Reduce, Reuse, Recycle, Reward. Redux

To use is to reuse

To use is to reuse

Green Thoughts: Practical palms

Green Thoughts: Practical palms
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Sustainably Yours: Why COVID-19 gives me hope for climate change
Sustainably Yours: Why COVID-19 gives me hope for climate change
Sunday 29 March 2020, 11:00AM
We’re living through strange and uncertain times having gone from the climate crisis of 2019 directly into the health crisis of 2020. No need to go to the cinema anymore to watch the latest Hollywood disaster movie, these days it seems as if we’re all living through one and you just need to turn on BBC or CNN. Hurricanes, volcanoes, floods, droughts, fires, now a virus, dare I ask what’s next?
Green Thoughts: ‘The Tropic Gardener’
Green Thoughts: ‘The Tropic Gardener’
Sunday 22 March 2020, 01:00PM
My book, The Tropic Gardener, has just come off the printer’s press. As readers of this column and of earlier pieces in the Phuket Gazette and elsewhere will be aware, I have been writing about tropical plants and their cultivation for some 13 years. This book derives in part from those reflections; it is the culmination both of my own attempts to create a garden in Southeast Asia, and in so doing to offer a written hands-on guide to available plants and their cultivation.
Green Thoughts: Flowers of fortune and good luck
Green Thoughts: Flowers of fortune and good luck
Sunday 16 February 2020, 10:00AM
Valentine’s Day is upon us and the shops are awash with cards displaying gold hearts and red roses. Ever since Robert Burns wrote: “My love is like a red red rose / That’s newly sprung in June” and likely long before that, the rose has been every lover’s choice for February the fourteenth, a floral symbol not just of beauty and romance, but a metaphor for the well-spring of true love, the human heart.
Reduce, Reuse, Recycle, Reward. Redux
Reduce, Reuse, Recycle, Reward. Redux
Thursday 30 January 2020, 09:00AM
According to the World Meteorological Organization (WMO), 2019 was the second hottest year ever recorded, and according to NASA, NOAA, and the UK Meteorological Office 2010-2019 was the hottest decade.
To use is to reuse
To use is to reuse
Saturday 18 January 2020, 11:45AM
BANGKOK- Funny photos taken at supermarkets and convenience stores across Thailand were circulated on New Year’s Day, showing customers carrying unusual containers like a construction cart, a cement bag, a plastic bucket and even a stainless-steel cooking pot to use as substitutes for plastic bags.
Turtles released at Maya Bay, Koh Phi Phi
Wednesday 1 January 2020, 12:00AM
Koh Phi Phi Leh’s- Maya Bay Beach has been a controversial topic in recent years. The bay is still closed. However, tourists are still able to visit the National Park to swim and snorkel along the outskirts of the bay. A rope strung across the bay prevents visitors from getting close to the beach. The popular local opinion, shared amongst most is that the bay should not re-open anytime soon; and definitely not under the same unregulated circumstances.
Green Thoughts: Practical palms
Green Thoughts: Practical palms
Sunday 15 December 2019, 02:00PM
In many countries, palms are grown not for their aesthetic charms, but because they produce edible fruit in the most unpromising conditions. While they have been important throughout recorded history, especially in hot, arid regions, nowadays they are assuming even greater commercial importance as cash crops.
Phuket Farmers Club: The fruitful network championing the island’s farm-to-table movement
Phuket Farmers Club: The fruitful network championing the island’s farm-to-table movement
Sunday 1 December 2019, 10:00AM
Thailand is the fourth-highest pesticide consumer in the world, using herbicides like glyphosate, which is thought to be a carcinogen, and paraquat which is toxic to humans and animals. Then there's chlorpyrifos, which has been associated with developmental defects in children.
Eco-friendly saving methods for small businesses
Eco-friendly saving methods for small businesses
Saturday 30 November 2019, 03:00PM
Every small business looks for ways to save money in order to reduce ongoing expenditure and increase profits. But within the effort of saving money, a business could also be helping the environment by opting for greener technologies and processes along the way.
Green Thoughts: Small and mighty palms
Green Thoughts: Small and mighty palms
Sunday 10 November 2019, 03:00PM
While many arecaceae are notable for their impres­sive height, characterised by a solitary, unbranched stem surmounted by a crown of fronds, and often producing massive seeds – the coco de mer has seed pods weighing up to 30 kilograms – oth­er palms are neat and shrub-like, often denizens of the understory and able to survive with limited access to sunlight. In fact, their diversity is highest in tropical rainforests.
Reduce, Reuse, Recycle: 15 practical ways to break the plastic habit
Reduce, Reuse, Recycle: 15 practical ways to break the plastic habit
Saturday 26 October 2019, 03:00PM
Just a few decades ago, plastic was touted as a miracle material. It’s strong, waterproof, lightweight and easy to mould. But exactly 150 years since its creation it has become a scourge on the planet and is responsible for the deaths of an estimated one million birds and 100,000 marine mammals annually.
Green Thoughts: Grand palms
Green Thoughts: Grand palms
Sunday 13 October 2019, 03:00PM
When I was a boy, I had to endure long waits on sooty railway stations – yes, it was the age of steam – whose walls were plastered with posters of seaside resorts with azure seas, white sands, bronzed maid­ens and swaying palm trees.
Jellyfish thrive in the man-made disruption of the oceans
Jellyfish thrive in the man-made disruption of the oceans
Saturday 28 September 2019, 03:00PM
Thousands of them plague our beaches to the horror of holidaymakers who dread their sting, but thanks to man’s disruption of the oceans, jellyfish are thriving.
Going green: 15 ways to reduce your carbon footprint
Going green: 15 ways to reduce your carbon footprint
Saturday 28 September 2019, 10:00AM
The Amazon is on fire, Hurricane Dorian, one of the most powerful in history, just devas­tated the Bahamas, and there are regular droughts and wildfires in California.
The Racha Resort comes to the rescue of injured sea turtle
The Racha Resort comes to the rescue of injured sea turtle
Wednesday 25 September 2019, 11:57AM
At 12:15am on Monday, Sep­tember 16, security staff at The Racha Resort found a sea turtle who was washed ashore and struggling on Batok Bay, which fronts the The Racha Resort on Ra­cha Yai Island, south of Phuket.
Lilly, Thailand's Greta Thunberg, wages ‘war’ on plastic
Lilly, Thailand's Greta Thunberg, wages ‘war’ on plastic
Saturday 21 September 2019, 03:00PM
Skipping school to glide through a dirty Bang­kok canal on a paddleboard, Lilly fishes out rubbish in her mission to clean up Thailand, where the average person uses eight plastic bags every single day.
Green Thoughts: Spiky fellows
Green Thoughts: Spiky fellows
Monday 16 September 2019, 02:00PM
A number of foliage plants are characterised by long, narrow, usually stiff leaves which are serrated and/or spiky. In landscaping, these are employed as architectural or ac­cent plants, placed in locations where their distinctive shapes and sword-shaped leaves add an exotic element to the appearance of the natural environment.
In conversation with accidental environmentalist Saurabh Gupta
In conversation with accidental environmentalist Saurabh Gupta
Sunday 8 September 2019, 10:00AM
In 2012, Saurabh Gupta was caught up in the corporate rat race of Mumbai, the beating heart of India’s finance and commerce sector. He was working hard, drinking harder and living for the weekend. A photo of him – pitcher in hand and a faraway look in his eyes – punched up on the screen behind him as he delivers a TEDx talk in Paris, attests to this.
Soi Dog Foundation’s clean-ups net five tonnes of waste at Mai Khao
Soi Dog Foundation’s clean-ups net five tonnes of waste at Mai Khao
Saturday 24 August 2019, 02:00PM
On Friday, August 2, 30 staff and volunteers from Soi Dog Founda­tion (SDF), along with a couple of the shelter’s resident pooches, came together for another clean-up of nearby Mai Khao Beach.
Green Thoughts: More ornamental shrubs well worth cultivating
Green Thoughts: More ornamental shrubs well worth cultivating
Sunday 11 August 2019, 03:00PM
This month opens the ‘last chance saloon’ door to a few more multi-coloured foliage shrubs. Two or three are consistent performers and might rightly feel miffed if not given a mention.
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