Zero waste living shouldn’t just apply to what you do in your home, but what you do in your gardens too. What most people realise only after they begin gardening, is that for an activity that embraces nature, there’s a surprising amount of plastic waste involved. So here are some zero waste gardening tips for...
When you buy through our links, we may earn fees from our affiliate partners. Learn more. This year we’ve been plagued with extreme weather, natural disasters and unforgiving viruses (ahem, COVID-19). Some cities and regions are still under lockdown but other areas have begun operating again which has reawakened travel wanderlust. Enjoying any outdoor activity during...
We don’t just turn to Instagram to stalk our favorite celebrities and social influencers to find out what they’re wearing, eating or where they hang out. Instagram also has a bevy of great accounts that celebrate and share knowledge about the dirty but glorious world of gardening. So, for those who’ve started to dabble in...
With all the horrifying circumstances happening around the world, a funny meme can definitely lighten the mood. A bunch of memes about the year 2020 and its series of unfortunate events have been circulating the web but there’s this one that really caught my attention. It says the year 2020 was written by Stephen King...
The city girl in me sees the beauty in the task of foraging for edibles. I imagine myself wandering around the woods with my two kids in tow, each lugging a basket for ‘shopping’ in the wild. For some reason, foraging becomes even more exciting when the edibles you are scavenging for are flowers. They’re...
To date, the coronavirus has taken over 700,000 lives worldwide and it is even spreading into remote places, threatening the health and safety of indigenous tribes and native communities. In Brazil, the government’s COVID-19 response (or lack of) has shown incompetence to protect its tribal populations from the threat. According to Articulation of Indigenous Peoples...
Manila, Philippines: In June, high numbers of sexual harassment cases began to surface at a string of schools across Metro Manila after a former student at Miriam College High School shared her story of how her Grade 11 teacher had admitted to having inappropriate fantasies about his students with her. Emboldened by this display of...
Blackout Day 2020 has come and gone but the drive to achieve racial equality through economic power remains. There’s power in the Black dollar. So, buy from Black-owned businesses. Support Black entrepreneurs. Champion Black artists. The racial inequality gap can be closed when the Black community shares in the economic opportunities afforded all others. To...
Today (July 7) is Blackout Day, a movement encouraging blacks and people of color (BIPOC) and their allies to come together in solidarity and end systemic racism through their economic power, by refusing to spend a dime at any business unless Black-owned. How did Blackout Day begin? According to Wikipedia, the event was conceived in 2015...
A couple of years into the American Civil War, President Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation on January 1, 1863, declaring “that all persons held as slaves” in the states engaged in rebellion against the Union “shall be then, thenceforward, and forever free.” Two years after the proclamation, the 13th Amendment to the United States Constitution, was...
Manila, Philippines: It’s the season for civil unrest. As millions of people in and outside of the United States stand with the black community and scream for systemic change, the Philippine Senate has just passed a senate bill to repeal the Republic Act No. 9372 commonly known as the Human Security Act of 2007. The...
“He won the lottery by being born Big hand slapped a white male American Do no wrong so clean cut, Dirty his hands it comes right off Policeman, policeman, policeman Police stopped my brother again…” I sing this verse from Pearl Jam’s W.M.A song from 1993 as I watch a white cop kneel on George...