Save your blessings – reduce wastage. Recycle your blessings – reuse and recycle. - Stonepeace This bag is for recycling your blessings, by reusing it, and to remind you to recycle every item put into it! Save Mother Earth with this environmentally friendly grocery tote made from...

Here is a discussion initiated by L, which he claims to be robust, which isn’t, IMHO… At least, not from his side. But I’ll leave whether this is really so for readers to decide. If you are already pro-vegan, you might just wish to skip his parts, though they do seem to...

Happy belated Valentine’s Day! Unique Valentine’s Day flower offering from Depeche Mode’s Facebook group, a virtual rose from the Enjoy the Silence single’s cover. Beats real flowers any time. (I noticed the flowers getting bigger in bunches this year.) If we love...

What a joke! What good is a green building if it serves the least green food – animal produce? What good is a green building if the owners and customers are not green in diet? What good is a green building in the news if this promotes more animal-eating? What good is a green building if...

The picture is a shred of toilet paper that I accidentally tore off while in the loo. As it was too small to use, I recycled it with the newspapers. An interesting thought struck me… I was able to use the rest of the toilet paper piece without that little shred. If so, how much, or...

True that shark fin is quite tasteless and lacking in nutrition. 1. Every animal that is killed needlessly was in its last moments an endangered one - even if not in terms of the species. (Applies to humans too.) 2. Every animal killed for any other parts or all of its parts is still a victim...

I’m wearing Croc cloth shoes. (An out-of production design) They’re pretty good … except that they are not totally waterproof. Here’s a paradox on consumer stuff - the tougher they (e.g. shoes) are, the longer they last, the less we have to buy, but the harder to...

A Buddhist organisation asked me to help write two short ‘politically correct’ statements on vegetarianism for a national documentary. This is what I came up with: ‘Where available and dependent on various conditions, lifelong or occasional vegetarianism is an optional but...

The comic strip (from Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal) above illustrates classic ignorance about vegetarianism and rationalisation for meat-eating. While we know that it’s near impossible to have an absolute guilt-free meals, the best thing is to minimise killing for food. If you...

When we were younger, our dreams to save the world was huge. But as we grew up, we easily find ourselves distanced from our ‘heroic’ ambition. Had a chat with an old friend recently about our supposed big dream, about how we drifted so far apart from what we wanted to do. Now, we...

I’m very grateful to this bag, which was sent by friend from France along with some organic vegan foodstuffs a few years ago. It has saved me from using many an environmentally-unfriendly plastic bag. It’s also thin enough to be folded and stuffed in my back pocket like a...

We try to make efforts to buy as much eco-friendly products as possible, even though the costs of some are steep (due to being lower on demand and the higher cost in mindful production). Recently, we came across ‘Seventh Generations’ products in our neighbourhood supermart...

A colleague was urging another colleague to give up pork by claiming that pigs eat everything and anything, including their own faeces. I told her that’s probably the case for many animals, as their living conditions before slaughter are horrifying – cramped up with little space to...

Yesterday, I took a brisk walk through the Vesak @ Orchard food fair. To my great disappointment, the organisation was using the usual non eco-friendly to package food. I remember vividly that wasn’t the case for last year, when biodegradable and recyclable packaging was used, while the...