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Carbon Dioxide (CO2 ) has been a word that is over-used but yet not much awareness is brought to the real reasons why the sudden interest in this odourless, colourless gas that stays in our atmosphere for about a 100 years before it’s been broken down to it’s component elements of 1 part Carbon (C) and 2 parts Oxygen (O2 ). It is also the chief gas that we exhale; every single second of our existence on this planet. The fact remains that humans have changed the earth’s landscape drastically in the past 50 years that nowhere in earth’s 4.5billion existence that any other living organism have done likewise. We are not talking about the CO2 we exhale but the state of awareness of how our every action from the moment we are awake to the time we go to bed; how these actions interplay and produces a potential “carbon-footprint”. (due to our human civilization over-reliance on Fossil Fuels). Our current state of awareness might have increased especially if one lives in a developed economy bu...

The country that proposes Gross National Happiness (GNH) seem not to be able to escape the clutches of globalisation and western influences...

It’s scary these days what goes on in the food industry… Click Here When was the last time we look at the ingredients? (I’ve seen ice cream ingredients where the first listed is Sugar, and the 2nd is Palm Oil; yup..and not Milk or milk derivative; milk solids was listed as 3rd)ie there's more palm oil than milk in your ice cream!

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Indeed, it's apt to call it such; it's only early summer/late spring and it's already bright at 4.30am. Just as well as I woke up earlier than most of my 40 friends for a early morning workout almost daily (apart from a couple of mornings when it was raining). JP was my jogging companion for most of the sessions as we explored the surrounds of Shiba Park, Kyoto River, sleepy fishing village at Toba and i got very lost in Nagoya snapping photos on my new toy that morning. I was a little surprised that i actually missed the Food back home despite being chinese. (I guess my genes has been mutated to more south east asian than my chinese genes i gotten from my grandparents). For example, my first experience eating Natto was something i will not forget for a long time. The experiences learnt and shared during the 2 weeks we were together is timeless; something that shows there's hope for the ill-health of our environment; ie if we all start campaigning more action in our re...

Akan Datang - 5th Jun (World Environment Day) You may download/view the entire movie here

Today is the much talked about Earth hour ; Singapore is finally taking more concrete steps; as opposed to last year when our authorities actually tested the F1 race lights along the padang that very same time we were urge to switch off the lights!( read my previous blog on our very first F1 ); coincidentally, i was recommended this very insightful website of intelligent people talking and here's one for Earth Hour