We barely escaped Ondoy’s waters in Metro Manila on Sept. 26, because we took the 10am PAL flight from Manila to Laoag. The rains started pounding as we were boarding the plane, and after an hour of bumpy ride, we were met by strong winds at the Laoag International Airport. When, after 24-hours, we saw [...]

Do you know how many zeroes there are in a trillion? You’ll probably pause to count, too. Various sites say that “we could wrap the earth about 4700 times with 1-trillion one-dollar bills laid end to end around the globe.” Mind-boggling, isn’t it? Do you know how much was spent on war weapons in [...]

I’ve been hearing talks about Monsanto offering some deals to local farmers here in town and having read some bad press about this multinational, I dug deeper for more information. What I found is a very informative hour-long documentary entitled “Life running out of control” dealing with the effects of genetically-engineered seeds on natural plant [...]

Today, we see another post-it note in our Earth Watch calendar, a reminder to take care of our planet. Earth Day is turning 39 this year; it began in 1970 (actually the idea was hatched in 1962), as a campaign to draw attention to environment issues and to campaign for activism for Mother Earth. Almost [...]

Tomorrow is the day to VOTE FOR EARTH by turning off lights (and all other electronic gadgets) for one full hour. The opposing candidate is, of course, global warming. The exact benefit of this worldwide action is difficult to quantify. The WWF admits it cannot measure the resulting decrease in greenhouse gas emissions. And whether [...]

In a previous post, I wrote about moringa (Iloc. – marunggi; Tag. – malunggay) and its many uses as medicine and as food enhancer. At the recent Kannawidan Ylocos Festival trade fair in Vigan, the Cabugao booth featured miki-lunggay, which is miki – a popular Ilocano flour pasta – fortified with malunggay. Published reports on [...]

I received an email from kailian Ben Padua enjoining me to register with www.wecansolveit.org as an expression of support for the fight against global warming. Let me extend the invitation to you, too. That said, I must tell you that I see a lot of these campaigns gathering people’s signatures (or virtual signatures, for that [...]

We harvested honey for the first time from our month-old apiary on Saturday and to mark the occasion, a nasty little buzzer left its stinger in my arm, and she probably died in the process – serves her right, ha-ha! But that’s getting ahead of the story. How I came to be involved in the [...]