Queen of Green — Meet Kotchakorn Voraakhom, Thailand’s Visionary Landscape Architect
She’s saving sinking cities and the planet with her innovations
One of the joys of writing and blogging is meeting new-to-me women who are making a difference and then sharing their stories here.
Last year I set myself an April challenge of learning and writing about women who are actively saving the planet. I wrote about Margorie Stonemen Douglass, Winona LaDuke, and Margie Richards. So when Debbie Walker invited us to write about our heroes, I deccided to keep going in honor of April’s Earth Day and focus on the environment.
For every Greta Thumburg in the mainstream news, there are thousands and thousands of women and girls researching the problem, advocating for change, and designing places for a sustainable future.
One such visionary designer is a Harvard-educated Thai landscape architect.
Kotchakorn Voraakhom
As a child, Ms. Voraakhom loved playing in the canals and watching plants push their way up through the concrete. No surprise then when she grew up to design and create parks, roof-top gardens, and green spaces designed to handle flooding by effectively draining and storing water.
