By Catherine Dionne With all of the catastrophes taking place lately, you might feel a growing sense of desire to give back to local or distant communities. Whether it’s to help during a devastating hurricane, long-lasting bushfire, or unjust political corruption, the truth of the matter is, you might not always have the financial means...
The last few decades have borne witness to many amazing changes in our lifestyles. We have seen the advent of greener homes and powered whole cities with renewables energy. We have witnessed better environmental laws, a remarkable shift in consumer awareness and our understanding of numerous topics across the world stage has broadened. A few...
According to this study, 12.5 million working days were lost due to work- related stress or anxiety between 2016 and 2017 alone. The top three stressors for Americans today are the uncertainty of the nation’s future, money and work with work stress accounting for billions in healthcare costs. Stress at work happens to almost every...
Organic slimming teas and weight loss teas have been all the rage lately among those wanting to shed some pounds. They are advertised all over social media as the easiest way to lose weight and cleanse the body. It’s not hard to run into tons of #fitspo and #fitspirational influencers with healthy food photos on...
The decaying state of our online and physical communities and the dread of what the future holds in the face of the unmitigated climate changes we witness today can sometimes result in very negative impacts on our mental health. Around the world, governments continue to subsidise fossil fuel projects despite the consequences of climate change....
A few weeks ago, Instagram announced that it would be restricting –and in some cases completely removing– posts promoting weight loss or weight loss products. These posts will apparently be unavailable to users under 18 years of age because of serious concerns in certain quarters that they may encourage undue pressure and anxiety in adolescents...
Today, there are people who still believe that ‘an eye for an eye’ is all the policy we need. Probably born out of a staunch unwillingness to ‘appear’ passive in their daily dealings, this belief in ‘pay back’ has its footprints scattered across our various societies all across the globe. Now I agree that being...
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...
I knew it would be barely sustainable for me, a Millennial working in the precarious creative field, a small business owner, a woman plagued by an unshakable sense that I’m forgetting something or not doing enough to claim success; still I tried, and subsequently failed, to take a digital cleanse. I aspired to turn off...
For many long years, there have been heated arguments as to whether man is inherently selfish or not; arguments that subsist until now. One school of thought believes that we are inherently and manifestly selfish because, as Thomas Hobbes put it, the natural state of man’s life would otherwise be “nasty, brutish and short”. Another...
Note: This letter was originally published in our weekly newsletter and is being republished here. What would you create if you weren’t doing it for the likes? Hey guys, So today, in Australia (and other regions I since learned) Instagram has made the decision to remove the ‘likes’ count in an effort to improve well-being of users and enhance...
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,...