It seems in this day and age, we want to brag, feel we have the right to brag and social media is the perfect venue to hold all our bragging rights. Whether we want to show that we are about to devour a juicy burger from the latest burger joint in town or post photos...
The one thing that comes natural to all of us is learning how to care. It comes easily especially when caring for your family or for your home. But why is this innate characteristic often absent for many when it comes to caring about, say, ocean plastic, climate change or Mother Earth? Isn’t this planet...
Oh shoot, Earth Overshoot Day is three days earlier this year than last year and it’s the earliest it has ever been, ever! Now why is this a cause for alarm and how do we fix this? What is Earth Overshoot Day? Earth Overshoot Day fell on July 29 this year which means that in...
In an app-riddled digitally-connected world, green living has been made easier with free-to-download sustainable lifestyle apps available to everyone in just one click. Whether you want to reduce your carbon footprint, minimise plastic usage or need help in making cleaner, ethical and eco-friendlier lifestyle choices, these sustainable lifestyle apps will help you do just that....
Some say the world is going to hell. However, with the planet over heating due to greenhouse gas emissions resulting in never-before-seen severe droughts, heat waves, arctic ice melting, I’d say we already are in hell. The good news is, more and more people are waking up and becoming enlightened about their impact on the...
Selfies and social media shots are becoming such a normal part of a girl’s daily life, that they’re becoming pros in looking so fab and oh so fine. With commonly used hashtags #nofilter or #wokeuplikethis indicating a return to makeup free beauty, others are opting for alternative ways to ‘natural beauty’. An app can be...
So you’re looking to live a compassionate life and want to up the game by building a cruelty-free wardrobe? Let’s start with some awesome, high performing vegan kicks. Think of it as a wise investment to a better environment and planet that your feet and animals will appreciate. Now it’s important to note here that...
In the 90s, I used to play Megadeth’s Countdown to Extinction song. More than twenty years later, the record is a fitting soundtrack to what is happening with the world and its hundreds of thousands of endangered species facing the threat of extinction. Let’s get this straight; extinction is a part of the cycle of...
We were a small group of hikers meeting each other for the first time during that weekend climb. As we blazed through the Legacy Trail of Masungi Georeserve in Baras, Rizal, we were in our most natural state – gadgets stashed at the pit of our knapsacks and stripped off of our usual corporate garb,...
No matter how much we empower women to stay true to their own skin, billboards, magazine ads, commercials and social media influencers featuring thin, traditionally beautiful models with fair complexion far outweigh women representing diverse beauty, shapes, sizes – flaws and all. Here in Asia, one would think that our obsession with having a flawless...
I came across an article five years ago describing how the author didn’t produce trash for two years. I may have just browsed through that article or might have even skipped it all together. In my mind, going “zero waste” is absolutely rubbish. How do we go about living our daily lives without plastic? Especially...
Development and agriculture are the two main causes of deforestation in the Philippines. At around 70 percent land cover decades ago, it is now sitting at just 20 percent. With the island nation being hit by an average of twenty typhoons per year, deforestation has only intensified soil erosion and flood damage. Without these tree...