It may cost a little bit more, but you’re doing it for the environment and for the poor. Minka’s Toothbrush Movement is made from bamboo – a water-resistant, naturally anti-microbial material – that provides environmental sustainability. Plus, they support a Habitat for Humanity program aiming to provide sanitary supplies and training in communities that don’t have such yet. Continue reading
The Think! Game created by Reynato Sian is more challenging and better than chess with its more complex yet realistic rules not based on war strategies but on real-life principles that develop both intelligence and character. Its supporters call for it to be integrated into national education to improve individual, organizational, and analytical skills more effectively than chess: a socially innovative way to increase the impact of education with a concept celebrating local talent. Continue reading
The Golden Egg is a delicious, natural, healthy, and socially responsible alternative to traditional salted duck eggs, which are dyed maroon with either food coloring or carcinogenic dyes. Read on to see how so! Continue reading
Hello, I’m back from a several-week-long unintended hiatus. Things have become so busy on our end in preparing for the 4th Philippine Conference on Research in CSR; I do hope you could join! It’s on Monday, 29 September 2014, at the Asian Development Bank in Mandaluyong City, Metro Manila, Philippines. But on to something a bit more … Continue reading
I relish a bit of leftover innovation. As far as the cook in me is concerned, triumph is successfully turning leftovers into a new dish that is more amazing than the sum of its parts. Not only do I get to reduce my food waste to zero and clean up the refrigerator, but I also get … Continue reading
Continuing my shameful run of belated recipe-of-the-day posts, I now post the happy ending to my Italian soup run from the past several days. I did previously mention in my post on minestrone alla Genovese-Filippino that I unintentionally made so much soup I kept the other half for very-near-future-so-that-it-won’t-go-rotten consumption; at the same time, that evening, I … Continue reading
Last Sunday evening, after our family went shopping for the afternoon, we had dinner at Solaire’s Finestra, its Italian-cum-fine dining restaurant, as it was near Duty Free Fiestamall, where we’d come from. As I wanted to enforce a habit of eating just a light supper and not eating past ten in the evening (as it takes … Continue reading
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