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 [...]

Most of the world’s mainstream faiths have at their core a deep respect for nature, but over hundreds of years, many have developed an ambivalent attitude towards ecology and the pressures put on the earth by humans. Church leaders have largely stayed silent on the extinction of species and natural capital and have concentrated their [...]

If we think hard enough, we’ll realize that the reason for many of the world’s problems today is because prices do not reflect the costs to the environment incurred in the production of goods. The world is having a fresh water crisis because of our unbridled use of this “endangered” resource. Consider this: the production [...]