THA Green News Letter June 09

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The Koh Samui Trophy, Adventure Race a THA sponsored Event

A Man for a Greener koh SamuiKhun Paisan - a Man with a mission

for a cleaner and Greener koh samui, he

stands behind the first garbage separation

sheds, made from recycled wood and other

materials the first for them to show an exam-

ple, they lead from the front.

When the Tessban can do then the rest of us

should follow, they lead the way for a cleaner

and greener samui, good on them all!

The fastest Growing sport in the world comesto koh Samui In September.

Racing for a Greener Samui

The Koh Samui Trophy Adventure race, willbe held on Saturday the 19th of September2009.The race is also supported by the Tour-ism Authority of Thailand and a great boostfor the Island.

Created to promote and expose the beautyof koh Samui and its businesses, the eventwill also support and raise funds for theenvironmentally Initiatives.

The race date has been chosen to maximizethe benefit of the event for the Island, heldduring the low ( Green season), the event willcertainly help the tourist industry throughought a typically quiet period. The race willalso be a boost for the Island economy,

Divisions:

Adventure; Easier course, for those of us whoneed a nurse or oxygen when we run upsome stairs.

Extreme: longer course: no more to say those

fit professionals who love to run and dothings out of this world.

The Adventure racing, is one of Asia's fastest

growing sports, and brining one to koh samuican only support our island and our future,with their green initiatives, this will combinewith the THA green philosophy and theGreen Island project on going as we speak.

Attendance profile:

Nearly 1000 high profile people will attendthe event.

Including VIPs' sponsor guests, Racers fami-lies, supporters, media, competitors and kohSamui Residents.

A well worth while adventure on our doorstep.

www.kohsamuitrophy.com

ADOPTINGASCHOOL 2

MAJORBEACHCLEANUP 2

COUNTDOWNFORTHE

LOWCARBONSCHOOLS

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GREENWAVE, AWAVEOFTREESWORLDWIDE

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CENTARA GRAND 4

REGATTA, REGENTANDMELATI & ZAZEN

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THOSETHAT MATTER! 6

Inside this issue:

7th June 2009Issue 2 June 2009

Y O U R M O N T H L Y , G R E E N I S L A N D U P D A T E !

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Why adopt a school, youmay say, its simple, in com-

bining forces of THA hotelsand resorts with local schools,the Tessban have chosen 10schools for the initial 2009project with 15 more to belooked at for the 2010 cal-endar year.

Combining our efforts to edu-cate the children of koh samuiin the three R,s as well aseducating their parents onthe importance of not throw-ing garbage away, but recy-

cling what can be used.

Two hotels will work on one

school, for this project,brother one and brother 2,brother two will take a newschool next year, and brotherone will help them along.

Certain areas of the schoolswould be handed over togarage separation areas, Emproduction, small gardens forherbs spices and flowers.

Helping the schools to be selfsufficient and educating the

children to take care of theirIsland and their country.

Once these projects are setup in the next few months, acontinuation would then hap-pen and the children willreap the benefits by thethree R,s and assiatcne formthe Tessban to help them selltheir garbage.

More on this in the next issueof the Green post:

set up this project, due tohaving 10 schools under one

banner it was decided toshow all ten schools underone roof, a grand openingfrom 8:00am until 12 noon.

All schools will be there toshow what they are doing,we expect GIDOA, samuirescue, Samui dogs home,

A historic day for the Tessbanand THA on Koh Samui, the

grandest day yet will arriveon the 15th June at the KohSamui school in Nathron.

This school has been be-friended by Six senses resortand spa as its pi Liangschool.

A lot of work to be done to

local dignitaries along withthe police, local and tourist,

fire brigade, various hospi-tals on the Islands.

A speech from the Mayorand governs of koh samui.

Games for the children, weexpect to have over 2,000people for this event.

Adopting schools

Count down to the Grand opening of the Low Carbon school projects

Major beach clean up - 25th April 2009to all the families of the fish-erman that live/work here.All kinds of refuse was found,but in the main plastic andglass. But, also old tires,signs, lumps of wood and adoor from a speedboat toilet

or cupboard, which was obvi-ously no longer needed!Some speedboat oil filterswere even found buried inthe sand where they hadbeen changed but couldnt be

disposed of properly!The diligent group thenheaded down Big BuddhaBeach clearing the refusefrom the recent high tideswhich had left a constantstream of litter and debris.

Many of the resorts along thisbeach do clean their beachland which was noticeable,area of rubbish left.

Our last beach clean up on25th April was another greatsuccess.We had an amazing turnoutof 165 people who all madethe effort to meet at 8.30amat Seatran Pier. This was

made up of from 14 Resortsand 11 Dive/Snorkel Opera-tors.We began cleaning underthe pier which was the worseaffected area, possibly due

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Green wave actions aroundthe world in 2009.

Many different groups areinvolved, in the green wave:

Schools, biodiversity institutes,botanical gardens, unitednations agencies, NGO, gov-ernments, businesses and themedia.

THA koh Samui, will be plant-ing a tree on this day alongwith millions of other organi-zations to create a waveworld wide those of us who

have adopted a school willset an example to be part of

this wave.10 schools will be supportedby 10 trees, that have beengrown here on koh samui.

10:00am local time the treeswere planted.

As koh samui has damagedits environment this is onlyproper we try to add to themany great projects, alreadybeing carried out on the is-lands. A majority of Hotels

joined in to plant their treeand educate the children in

our schools, a first for kohsamui.

We would like tot hank youall for the support and effortone tree less I the Billion treecampaign world wide.

http://greenwave.cbd.int

tunately we did not get thepicture we needed as this

would have been worth whileto see.

Our caps off to whoever col-lected this discarded waste.

They made a lot of money byjust taking their time to collectunwanted garbage.

On the road heading downtowards Bundhari Resort &

Spa, there is the corner. Forthe past few months we haveseen local people gatheringempty discarded beer bottlesand cans form god knowshow many years.

The pile kept getting biggereach time we passed, unfor-

Money is always in garbage,and manure.

From time to time if you see aworth while report drop us aline and we would add this toour next months edition, try toget a picture and name ifpossible.

Lets get clicking!!!

22nd May Green wave,suporting the billion tree campaign!

Observations on the Islandclean ups

Mangrove planting at Taling Nam, May 8th

came from all sectors of theIsland.

Form the THA, the followingsupport was given, AmariPalm reef, Imperial boathouse, Kandaburi, Tongsaibay, Bang Taling Nam. Re-gent Chaweng, Melati.

From the community, the localand tourist police were there,fire brigade teams, Samui

rescue, The Royal Thai navy.

And not to forget the localpeople from the village itself,over 16 rai was planted with6,000 mangrove trees reintroduced into this barrenand abused land.

A great effort top bring backthe eco system of theswamps.

Thank you for the support!

On Friday May 8th, and onthe eve of the auspiciousVisakha Bucha Day, TheTessaban, The deputy Gover-nor of Koh Samui inaugu-rated a Tree planting day tocoincide with Visakha Bucha

Day.

A call went out through TAKSand THA to gather support tolend a hand and make meriton this day, over 300 people

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THERE IS NOT

ENOUGH WE

CAN DO TODAY,

TO RE PLANT

KOH SAMUI, GET

PLANTING, LETS

GIVE MOTHERNATURE WHAT

SHE WANTS HER

LIFE BACK!


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What can we say, the localGovernment on koh samui

are in fast track mode, toestablish and create aGreener koh samui for all tobenefit from.

Check dams, tree planting,flood drains, beach clean upsand support for the variousorganizations on koh samui isgrowing from strength tostrength from the Tessban,

They will establish a first onSamui their own recycling

centre right at their doors

step, the yard of the Tessa-ban office in Nathron.

This will be looked at as apilot project, to show thecommunity they mean busi-ness and that anyone cantake their garbage to besorted out there, they wantto show the community theymust lead and show by ex-ample before they can askthe community to follow thesame practice, a worth whileendeavor to keep koh samuiGreen and mean for the

years to come.

It wont be easy, but they

must start at the source of thematter, the local Govern-ment .

Five holding pens have beenset up still to have their roofsadded.

Every step they take in goingGreenbrings them closer tothe objective of the GreenIsland project.

Thank you!

Low Carbon School ProjectIn 2009, this project starts with

10 schools and 10 masterhotels, including CentaraGrand Beach Resort Samui,plus 20 assistant hotels. Tessa-ban/municipality is support-ing budget THB 50,000.- perschool for the environ-ment preservation. Photoshows a seminar at Kandaburi.

Centara CaresOngoing environmental Cam-

paign Centara Cares activi-ties, to clean up differentplaces and tourist attractionaround Koh Samui area. Photoshows Centara Cares atSeatran Pier Bangrak Beach.

Environment Boards

Centara Grand Beach ResortSamui provides Green infor-mation on the staffs environ-ment boards.

Local Government leading the Way

Centara Grand Beach Resort. with Centara Cares program

GIDOA, The Green Island Diving Association

corals, or any other kinds

Amount of certain types of Ma-rine life that indicate thehealthiness of the reef

Causes of any damage to thereef: nets, fishing gear, spearfishing, diving, shell collecting,stepping/holding on corals, oilslick, anchor on coral, sediment,

sewage Visibility, temperature of water

and sea flow.We also use color charts to establishcoral healthiness.

The survey on Chaweng reef showedthat the majority of the reef is madeup of live hard coral which are in afairly good condition.Although not in big numbers, the reeffish that were there indicated thatthere is plenty of life on the reef forthem to stay.One thing that was very obvious wasthat most of the damage was causedby extensive sediment covering thereef, and there were also signs ofdamage caused by people steppingor holding onto the reef.

Reef Watch May 2009

GIDOA members recently did a Reef Survey onChaweng Reef to monitor the condition of thecoral and the amount of marine life. We did thesurvey using the Green Fins Reef Watch projectguidelines. We were looking at:

Reef type:

whether it is dense coral, patchy or arocky reef.

The Percentage cover of live hardcoral, dead coral rock, soft coral orsea fan

Coral types: boulder corals, branching

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In conjunction with the Samuiregatta on 4th June, Bluewa-

ter International school set upa major beach clean up onBangrak beach.

Yes once again this beachhas been cleaned four timesthis year, this shows you theamount of garbage we allleave behind.

Over 200 participants camealong, the yaughties, THAmembers, local community,school children, samui rescue,

once again an effort wasmade and many bags were

removed by the Tessban onceagain.

Many thanks to Callum andhis team from Samui Regattaand Web sawadee for thesupport for this event, aninternational race week witha greener samui on theirminds.

Most of us don't know but theyaughtie people are verygreen in recycling their gar-

bage and they had bins forseparations et up next to

Centara Grand for this event.Not only they did this forsamui but for a greenerplanet for all.

This event will be on the cal-endar for koh samui everyyear ,and would be led byBluewater Internationalschool, good on them teachour kids the best way to savetheir planet for the future!

Alex mentioned that its neverto late to begin or partici-

pate in anything that con-cerns mother nature and theway we have to look atthings today.

Chef Wally, and his kitchenGarden is the next step forthem, we are all looking for-ward to a feast of fresh gar-

Having a fantastic lunch withAlex and his team, their de-

termination and effort tocatch up and be part of theeffort to change koh Samui .

Recycling, a kitchen garden,production of EM, and muchmuch more are on the cardsfor Zazen in the next fewmonths.

den vegetables once theyestablish their gardens.

Not complete

Samui Regatta, THA & Blue water school hit the beaches

Its Never too late to begin, Zazen Joins in!

Melati Resort & Spa Going Green with Green Melatically focus on various Hotelenvironmental issues. Ourlong term goal is to save ourHotel resources, and takepart in the whole world-widecampaign on energy-saving,and on environmental care

and protection. It is our aimto continuously practice en-ergy conservation at all ar-eas of the hotel by educatingand inspiring our team ontheir individual contribution.

We are committed to supportany community activities forthe betterment of our envi-ronment (Koh Samui) and thewhole world as a whole, i.e.,tree planting, beach cleaning,

temple cleaning, energy-

conservation practices, etc.A great effort there from one

of the new resorts on koh

samui, a big thanks to the

team at Melati,.

Just barely a couple ofmonths during its soft open-ing, and thats exactly oneyear now, Melati has startedits Green Melati with theobjectives of creating andmaintaining some worthy and

creative practices among ourstaff in taking care of, andconserving our environment.Weve set up a committeewith representatives from allHotel departments to specifi-

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P Liang hotel 1

Imperial Samui

The Tongsai Bay

Kandaburi

Four seasons resort

Six senses Hideaway

Rocky's Resort

Paradise Beach Resort

Baan Taling Ngam

Ban Laem Sai Beach Resort

Centara Grand

Schools

Wat SawangArom

Ban Plai laem

Wat Boondarikaram

Wat Samuttharam

Koh Samui

Wat Lamai

Wat Chaeng

Wat Saket

Theeparat Pittaya

Wat Klang

P Liang Hotel 2

Impiana Samui Resort

Chaweng cove Resotel

Imperial Boat House

The Passage

Regent Chaweng and Melati

The Renaissance Samui

Santiburi

Chaba Samui

Bandara Resort & Spa

Chaba Cabana

Those that matter! The schools and P-Liang 1 @ 2

This is what its all about thefuture, our children and their

children for generations to

come.

Lets take 280 hotels resorts and guest houses as a round about figure:

Jan to December 2008:

15,453.12kg for 280 establishments per month,

Total for the year was 4,326,873.60kg

( 4 tons and over).

52,735.68baht for 280 establishments per year,

Total for the year was 14,765,990.40 Million baht.

Samui going green all the wayOrganization

S O M E F A C T S A N D F I G U R E S F R O M L A S T E Y A R .

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