Shifting Paradigms
Shifting Paradigms
In a recent TED Talk in New York, Attorney Jing Corpuz, a member of the Kankana-ey people of the Cordilleras in the Philippines said “reciprocity, spirituality, not taking more than you need, obligation to future generations and collective decision making,…
Tree Planting at Uyugan, Batanes Growing up in Batanes, I learned to love the bounties of nature. Fruit-bearing trees surround our Lolo’s house — a guava tree that regularly bears fruit, a mabolo tree, an orange tree, pomelo, tropical…
March 11, 2020 – the World Health Organization declares COVID19 a pandemic. With the thousands of news flooding the world, it is hard to differentiate factual news from the misinformation coming both from social media and sensationalized news coming from…
Water and Politics Last December 3, 2019, Pres. Rodrigo Duterte accused the owners of Maynilad and Manila Water of ‘syndicated estafa’ because of what he claims as ‘onerous’ provisions in the concession agreement signed by the two companies with the…
Masafumi Nagasaki, 83 years old, has lived on the island of Sotobanari, Okinawa, Japan for 30 years. Alone! There are poisonous snakes in the island, some even crawling near his tent. When asked if he was ever attacked by a…
Glyphosate is not something we talk about in our daily lives, yet this ingredient may well be present in the food we eat. Glyphosate is often present in pesticides used to poison weeds and pests around the plant products that we…