From observations, it was noted that sources of staple food for the people in Yasothon were transported from other provinces at a distance beyond 800 km, so there was a study conducted about the transport of food in partnership with Health Promotion Fund. The purpose of the study is to promote food production with reduced transport distance and more healthy. The study was conducted by collecting data by interviewing three groups of manufacturers and transport companies in the municipality area. The study showed that food transport has carbon emissions by up to 800 KgCo2e per day or 300,000 KgCo2e per year, which has resulted in defining a public policy on sustainable consumption at the province level. The study has also initiated the urban farming and biodiversity conservation in the river with one pilot community and extendeding to at least three communities in 2016.
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The area in the west of the municipal have land that is along the Chi River and a 48 acres public space that was left uncultivated in the past. The province's urban development policies that focus for local authorities to improve all the landscape and make a land use plan. The municipality administration has initiated the development of the area bordered by Malkin that the new park of the city. The present work has developed the area by planting trees alarm. Develop the necessary infrastructure such as sporting playground, lighted track and space for just the venue of the province and to create a bike lane in the future will have to invest just sport complex.
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The municipality has three schools in the district, totaling to over 3000 students and are places that use energy and release pollution into the city. The school district has a policy that encourages students to make learning activities to encourage good habits and conserve the environment. Under the royal philosophy to live a sufficient lifestyle, District 3 School is an example of a kindergarten level school with 700 students and holds student activities Day Camp annually. The camp has a demonstration farm to learn about being a farmer. Afterwards, food scraps from the cafeteria and homes were converted to microbial fermented water to water and fertilize the plants in the demonstration farm as well as the farm where garden vegetables were grown for student lunches. Students were taught to use clean water instead of chemical while reducing odors in the sewer. What was left of the fermented water was bottled and sold to parents. Because the issues that the school produces a lot of garbage, they tried to raise awareness by instituting a recycling bank. By working in conjunction with the Department of Environment District 2, students were taught to bring waste from home and received an award for their work. The result is the number of trips to collect garbage at school dropped from two to one per day. The kids that are working on this project are able to work together and earn an income as well.
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In the last 5-10 years, municipalities have to pay for electricity more than 10 million Baht each year, and in recent years, owing 7 million Baht in for electricity. This resulted in the management to initiate conserving electricity to reduce cost, raise awareness,and reduce CO2 emissions in Scope 2 by doing the following: measures to reduce electricity use in the office, replacing old light bulbs to LED bulbs in office, education buildings, fresh markets, with plans to change a light bulb in the main street of the city public within the 2016 Fiscal year.
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The landfill in the municipal area is about 47.2 acres. It was built in 2000 and designed to use for 20 years (2020), but due to the expansion of the city, landfill became full in 2010. The municipality then thought of a way to solve the problem by relying on engineering. It took a lot of effort from all sectors to separate waste prior to disposal to reduce waste going into the landfill. They encouraged 23 communities in the area to establish a fund for the recyclable goods as well as asking for grant from the Environmental Fund to build an Integrated SWM Facility to accommodate waste from both municipalities and 19 LGs around the municipality. To reduce waste even further, the municipality is asking for 20 volunteers from a 2 miles radius to come and separate waste at the landfill. The revenue is divided into two parts with 80% belonging to the people who separated the waste those screened, and 20% to the revenue of the municipality. The municipality receives around 700 USD and individuals about 300 USD which resulted in a 30% reduction in waste from 40 tons per day to 28 tons.
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The mayor of Yasothon Town Municipality is a visionary leader with a passion to develop Yasothon City to become a livable city with pleasant environment and to improve health and mind of local people. Yasothon Town Municipality has distinctive features in having natural resources and beautiful scenery because the city is located along Chi River. As a result, Yosothon Town is a suitable city to be developed by promoting walking, cycling and using public transport as preferred transportation mode of local people and travelers. Yasothon Town Municipality has created walking and cycling route development project in the area along Chi River, the main river of the city, firstly. The 2 km walking and cycling route was primarily developed for tourism purpose. Currently, the route is not ready to use at 100%, however, if the route has been completely developed, it will become an important tourist attraction of the city. Moreover, the municipality has created many projects related to Sustainable Transport Promotion Project including Public Tram System Development for traveling in the city (Happy Tram Project), Cycling Around Town Project - Every Wednesday Evening, Road Construction and Development to support walking and cycling in daily life, Developing 9 Tourist Attractions to promote historical and cultural tourism cycling route. According to the action plan, Yasothon provincial governor, mayor and chief of governor’s office led the cycling group ride every Wednesday. Moreover, the municipality has provided 2 public trams (for 50 people and 30 people respectively) for local people and travelers to use on weekdays – 2 rounds/day (Morning and Evening), on weekends and public holidays – 3 rounds/day. The results of the action plan not only raise a reputation of the municipality among tourists and cyclist but also increase the number of local people who choose to walk and ride on a daily basis. Moreover, GHGs emission has been reduced as follows:
1. Public Tram: GHGs is emitted = 1.33 tCO2e/year or 5.12 tCO2e in 2020. Individual Use of Motorbike: GHGs is emitted = 14.64 tCO2e/year or 58.45 tCO2e in 2020. The comparison between the public tram and motorbike use showed that the use of public tram will help reducing GHGs emission at 13.11 tCO2e/year or 53.22 tCO2e in 2020.
2. Wednesdays Group Ride and other Cycling Campaigns since the beginning of the project (1 June 2016) can reduce GHGs emission = 0.1132 tCO2e/day or 5.436 tCO2e (since the beginning of the project till present). In 2020, the municipality will be able to reduce GHG emission = 21.7344 tCO2e. Moreover, this project is the starting points enabling organizations and related sectors to understand the connection between sustainable and environmentally-friendly transport and global warming reduction. However, the problems which all cyclists in Thailand have faced are the road structures which are not supported cycling, lack of knowledge of some cyclists, and negative attitudes of car drivers towards cyclists. Therefore, the action plan requires the cooperation from all sectors to help supporting the project. The municipality can only support for convenience and safety. Eventhough, the total reduction of GHG from this action is not too big (1% of GHG emission from road transportation in the city boundary) but it is the begining practice on sustainable mobility of this municipality and it will be expanded in further.
From observations, it was noted that sources of staple food for the people in Yasothon were transported from other provinces at a distance beyond 800 km, so there was a study conducted about the transport of food in partnership with Health Promotion Fund. The purpose of the study is to promote food production with reduced transport distance and more healthy. The study was conducted by collecting data by interviewing three groups of manufacturers and transport companies in the municipality area. The study showed that food transport has carbon emissions by up to 800 KgCo2e per day or 300,000 KgCo2e per year, which has resulted in defining a public policy on sustainable consumption at the province level. The study has also initiated the urban farming and biodiversity conservation in the river with one pilot community and extendeding to at least three communities in 2016.
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The area in the west of the municipal have land that is along the Chi River and a 48 acres public space that was left uncultivated in the past. The province's urban development policies that focus for local authorities to improve all the landscape and make a land use plan. The municipality administration has initiated the development of the area bordered by Malkin that the new park of the city. The present work has developed the area by planting trees alarm. Develop the necessary infrastructure such as sporting playground, lighted track and space for just the venue of the province and to create a bike lane in the future will have to invest just sport complex.
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The municipality has three schools in the district, totaling to over 3000 students and are places that use energy and release pollution into the city. The school district has a policy that encourages students to make learning activities to encourage good habits and conserve the environment. Under the royal philosophy to live a sufficient lifestyle, District 3 School is an example of a kindergarten level school with 700 students and holds student activities Day Camp annually. The camp has a demonstration farm to learn about being a farmer. Afterwards, food scraps from the cafeteria and homes were converted to microbial fermented water to water and fertilize the plants in the demonstration farm as well as the farm where garden vegetables were grown for student lunches. Students were taught to use clean water instead of chemical while reducing odors in the sewer. What was left of the fermented water was bottled and sold to parents. Because the issues that the school produces a lot of garbage, they tried to raise awareness by instituting a recycling bank. By working in conjunction with the Department of Environment District 2, students were taught to bring waste from home and received an award for their work. The result is the number of trips to collect garbage at school dropped from two to one per day. The kids that are working on this project are able to work together and earn an income as well.
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