Filed under: Change Caravan, Indonesia, Life at work, Stop climate change, Thailand | Tags: Chang, Chang[e], elephants, Greenpeace University
The second day was a big day for the Chang(e) Caravan project. In the morning, we marched from the entrance of Ancient Siam to the ’Bench of Public Appeals’. Before the long march, a small ceremonial activity was done with one of the elephants, Tong Dang, along with his mahout, to pay respect to the holy figures located in the entrance of Ancient Siam.
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: Philippines, Stop climate change | Tags: Age of Stupid, Chang[e], Copenhagen, DRI, greenpeacebuzz, Philippines
Pete Postlethwaite as an old man living in the devastated world of 2055, watching 'archive' footage from 2008 and asking: why didn't we stop climate change while we had the chance?
“We could have saved ourselves, but we didn’t. It’s amazing. What state of mind were we in, to face extinction and simply shrug it off?”
These were the words that reverberated in my mind in the darkness of the Cultural Center of the Philippines’ Tanghalang Manuel Conde.
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, Philippines, Stop climate change, Thailand | Tags: c2c, Chang[e], Copenhagen, Faux-Obama, Ilhan Anas, Obama lookalike
We hope so…
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…..
Lea Guerrero
Filed under: Change Caravan, Stop climate change, Thailand | Tags: c2c, change caravan, Chang[e], Copenhagen, greenpeace buzz
Lea Guerrero
Filed under: Change Caravan, Stop climate change, Thailand | Tags: c2c, change caravan, Chang[e], Copenhagen, elephants, pictures
You never get to know an elephant until you go on an elephant caravan.
And we’ve been really up close with five of them in this journey. More on each of them later….
Meanwhile, here are some interesting close up photos from Tui…
Filed under: Change Caravan, Stop climate change, Thailand | Tags: c2c, change caravan, Chang[e], Copenhagen, elephants, Filipino, greenpeacebuzz, TERF, Thailand
This is a photo of a People-Elephant-Forest talk which the TERF (Thai Elephant Research and Conservation Fund) usually conduct. Their audience varies and this one that we conducted last Tuesday is the talk for school children.
TERF conducts these conservation awareness talks mainly in support of their thrust to reduce Human Elephant Conflict (HEC) elephants (particularly wild elephants) are sometimes known to wander out of the forest (because the forests are getting smaller, or the herds are getting too big for the forest to sustain them, that they usually encounter situations with communities, like trampling on cornfields and eating the crops. This becomes a source of conflict, so that some people regard elephants as pests and sometimes even kill them.
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