Filed under: Change Caravan, Indonesia, Life at work, Stop climate change, Thailand | Tags: c2c, change caravan, Copenhagen, elephants, Greenpeace University
Filed under: Change Caravan, Indonesia, Life at work, Stop climate change, Thailand | Tags: c2c, change caravan, Copenhagen, elephant dung, elephants, Greenpeace University
Albert Lozada, Philippines
This is our last day in Ancient Siam, which means the last day of the Chang(e) Caravan project, which also means the last day with the elephants (Noooooooo!! But that’s okay, we promise to visit them when we go back to Thailand in the future). The Chang(e) Caravan ended with a press conference. Dealing with the elephants means dealing with dirty jobs, but apparently this job is not a big deal for Didit Wicaksono, Solar Generation Coordinator for Greenpeace Southeast Asia – Indonesia and Albert Lozada, Solar Generation Coordinator for Greenpeace Southeast Asia – Philippines.
Filed under: Change Caravan, Greenpeace, Indonesia, Life at work, Stop climate change, Thailand | Tags: c2c, change caravan, Copenhagen, elephants, Greenpeace University
Dear diary,
Throughout our trip, we met several amazing people—one of which was Dr. Alongkot Chukaew, the director of Thai Elephant Research and Conservation Fund (TREF). If you want to know anything about elephants—from their physical appearance to their behavior—he’s the best person to ask.
As it turns out, he has a very sentimental reason of why he’s enamored with the elephants. “I love elephants because of my mother”, he said. “When my mother was pregnant with me, she wanted to see elephants so badly so she went to a zoo far away from home. When I was young, she would always show me the pictures she had with the elephants”, he added while explaining to us how her mother kept on telling him of how important the elephants are as part of their belief as Thais.
Filed under: Change Caravan, Indonesia, Life at work, Stop climate change, Thailand | Tags: c2c, change caravan, Copenhagen, Greenpeace University
If you’re thinking Chang Cin Lok is a Chinese name, then you are…………..wrong!
Chang in Thailand means elephant, and Cin Lok in Indonesia is short for “cinta lokasi” which means love upon meeting each other and being in the same location at the same time. So in short, Chang Cin Lok illustrates 2 elephants participating in this Chang(e) Caravan journey. From hundreds of elephants in the Khao Yai National Park, 5 lucky elephants were selected to participate in the journey and we were so excited to meet them today!!!
Filed under: Change Caravan, Stop climate change | Tags: bangpakong river basin, bike rally, Biodiversity, c2c, car-free day, change caravan, Climate Change, elephant caravan, elephants, forest, forest protection, Global Warming, people rally, un copenhagen climate summit
On Sunday, September 20, Chang(e) Caravan joined the citizens of Chanchoengsao, in their local festivities that combined the Global Car-Free Day with the provincial river- protection day.
Strangely enough, this was our first day in a town, after walking for days skirting around the Khao Yai National Park, and none of us, including our great friends and fellow-travelers, the elephants were particularly happy about it.
But the enthusiastic welcome by hundreds of bikers from local bike club, students from the local schools and colleges, farmers and traders who are members of agri-nature foundation and soldiers of local military unit, made the short walk through town worthwhile.
Filed under: Change Caravan, Stop climate change | Tags: Ban Ki Moon, c2c, change caravan, Copenhagen, greenpeacebuzz, Hu JinTao, Obama, Quotes, United Nations General Assembly
From the UN General Assembly special session on climate Change 22 Sept 09
UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon
“Climate change is the pre-eminent geopolitical and economic issue of the 21st century. It rewrites the global equation for development, peace and security.” – Ban Ki-moon
Filed under: Change Caravan, Stop climate change, Thailand | Tags: Age of Stupid, c2c, change caravan, Chang[e], Copenhagen, greenpeacebuzz
Yesterday night, as part of the Chang[e] Caravan, we hosted the premier screening of Age of Stupid in Bangkok. The movie is set in a bleak dystopian future because the leaders of today failed to act.
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Filed under: Change Caravan, Stop climate change | Tags: c2c, change caravan, Chang[e], Copenhagen, Faux-Obama, greenpeacebuzz, President Obama, UN General Assembly
For the last few days at the Chang[e] Caravan, our eyes and ears have been partly focused on the special session on climate change during the UN General Assembly yesterday.
We’ve put out two stories about climate vulnerable communities that we and the elephants have visited here in the central plains of Thailand, still calling on world leaders, particularly US President Obama, to act.
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Filed under: Change Caravan, Stop climate change, Thailand | Tags: c2c, change caravan, Chang[e], Copenhagen, Isa, petition
Isa (Wiriya) is our cheerfully tireless media officer in the Bangkok office. Here she’s going beyond duty to help distribute the brochures which contain the petition we’re running for the Chang[e] Caravan.
The people we’ve met along the way have been all too happy to support our Caravan. We’ve passed houses, stores and establishments – communities – who have given us and the elephants water, corn, sugar cane, candies and juice, and a place to rest our weary feet.
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Filed under: Change Caravan, Stop climate change, Thailand | Tags: change caravan, Chang[e], copenhagen c2c, elephants, photographer, Sataporn Thongma, Tui
Meet Tui (Sataporn Thongma), our fantastic photographer. That’s him behind Jeeb holding the banner.
You’d never guess, but Tui is also our IT guy here in the Greenpeace Bangkok office.
Tui has been capturing all the beautiful moments from the Caravan and we’ll miss him when he has to return to Bangkok and go back being the techie…..
