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 [...]

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, [...]

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 [...]

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 dispose/recycle later too.

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 commonly encouraged practice for lay and monastic Buddhists to practise universal compassion. This is [...]

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 think that it’s murder when many small animals and insects are killed when [...]

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 are [...]

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 hanky. You should consider getting and [...]

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 (Fairprice). We were pleasantly surprised that Fairprice would bring in [...]

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 move about, stepping on the waste of one [...]

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 packaging was designed with reasons why going vegetarian [...]