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Category Archives: Thailand
Further film progress and Jim Hansen’s visit
Over recent months I’ve played a relatively small role in helping organise part of Jim Hansen’s current trip to New Zealand. For those who don’t know him Jim Hansen is one of the world’s leading climate change scientists. Convinced by … Continue reading
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Tagged Adaptation, Climate change, Grassroots perspectives, Thailand
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Third film clip uploaded
For the past month or so I’ve been absorbed in writing or contributing to various work proposals. Hopefully I will have some success with at least some of these. Meanwhile I have continued working on my film when time has … Continue reading
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Tagged Adaptation, Climate change, Grassroots perspectives, Local resilience, Mekong river, Thailand
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Second film clip uploaded
I received some very supportive comments and positive feedback on my first clip, uploaded three weeks ago. I subsequently decided to work sequentially through my footage. This posed an immediate challenge as the next batch of film required me to … Continue reading
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Tagged Adaptation, Climate change, Grassroots perspectives, Local resilience, Resilience, Thailand
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Further reflections from Thailand: Learning to live with uncertainty
In my last post I talked about transformational change and referred to my Agri-Nature Foundation friends as a living example of this. It sounds radical and some may think painful. It’s only radical if you don’t feel some attunement to … Continue reading
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Back from Thailand: reflections on the need for transformational change
I’m back from Thailand and currently dealing with a chest infection. Travelling takes it toll, both on my health and on that of the planet. I live with these inconsistencies. From my arrival late on 19 October through to the … Continue reading
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Tagged Adaptation, Climate change, Grassroots perspectives, Local resilience, Reflections, Resilience, Thailand
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Back to Thailand
Earlier this year I had a phone call out of the blue from a friend in Thailand, Khun Wipa. I hadn’t spoken to her since 2007 when we were travelling and filming grassroots perspectives on climate change. She was phoning … Continue reading
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En route to Ho Chi Minh city
We had a long, but fascinating, train journey from Hue to Ho Chi Minh city. With more time we would have stopped at a couple of places along the way, but with only four full days left in Viet Nam … Continue reading
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Tagged Adaptation, Climate change, Grassroots perspectives, Viet Nam
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Reflections from Thailand
This morning we were up early to go to the temple with Khun Yai, and then back to Bangkok. We’ll be up early tomorrow morning to catch our flight to Hanoi. As I’ve already said before, we have met some … Continue reading
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Tagged Adaptation, Climate change, Grassroots perspectives, Thailand
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Naku village farmers
Pacharee, friend of Khun Yai, looked after us for the morning along with Mr Santi Jeeyapan. Santi works as a facilitator to support villagers doing farm based research. We drove out to Naku Village, near Ayutthaya, where we met with … Continue reading
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Ayutthaya
Fortunately today has been a bit quieter, a short trip (1 hour) by taxi to the old city of Ayutthaya and visiting some of the old Wat (temple) ruins (in incredible heat and humidity). We actually ordered the taxi to … Continue reading
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Tagged Adaptation, Climate change, Grassroots perspectives, Thailand
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