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So many islands, so little time

Graphicmaps.com and/or worldatlas.com produces some of the friendliest maps on the web. Here, you can see how overwhelming an archipelago can be for someone who likes to island hop. Thankfully, that...

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A Bell, A Triangle & A Mountain Side: Business Lessons in the Provinces

In addition to helping the micro-entrepreneurs perfect their basic math skills: adding, subtracting, multiplying & dividing with confidence, there are some business principles that every...

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Worms are our Friends

As part of the project to create sustainable and beneficial (for everyone including mother earth) livelihoods, we got to working with the community on the creation of worm farms.  In this beautiful...

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Flood Season: Know Your Dams in Luzon

Forewarned is forearmed. One of the things we did to make our cities function was to create dams so we could have a constant water source. These dams exact a price, now more than ever, as weather...

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A Hundred Islands in less than 3 Hours

If the plan is to tackle 7,100 islands in 365 days (as was my harebrained plan), then the best place to start would be at the Hundred Islands in Lingayen Gulf, Pangasinan off the coastal waters of...

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Getting Rid of the Loud & Belching Tricycle

Progress Reports like these are a joy to behold- and I’m not talking about the fact that it is visually appealing (that it definitely is) and easily understood- the content is also something to cheer...

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Prancing around Puerta Princesa, Palawan

When someone such as Jacques Yves Cousteau tells you that Palawan is “the most beautiful place on earth”, you better believe the undersea explorer knows what he is talking about. What is incredulous is...

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Meet Vinny

I love checking the mailbox for mail even though 9 out of 10 times what I end up getting are advert fliers and bills. But that one, singular time out of 10, when something cool comes, well, that 1 time...

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Guide to Exploring Mangroves in Naga City & Bojo River (Cebu)

Something about bright blue skies just cheers up the soul. It’s as if all is well with the world when you look up at something so magnificent. But we were not looking up at the sky above today....

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Earthquakes, Typhoons & Empty Spaces

“I sleep with a glass of water on the nightstand so I can see by its level if the coastal earth is trembling or if the shaking is still me.” –Amy Hempel (American short-story writer) The year 2013 was...

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Fighting Crime along Our Shores

It is really criminal- they way so many people just mindlessly throw their trash into our rivers and oceans. There is now so much trash in our oceans that when … Continue reading →

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