There's a clear parallel between the behaviour of the fossil fuel giants and tobacco companies: tobacco companies went to extraordinary lengths to suppress the knowledge that smoking caused cancer, activities that eventually resulted in multi-billion ... Read more >

People in the cities, particularly Manila are probably only aware of one staple: rice. But what we don’t know is that our country has a secondary staple, white corn which is consumed on a regular basis mostly in the Visayas and Mindanao.

Growing up i... Read more >

COP19 began auspiciously enough today, November 11, as it opened on the same day as Poland celebrated its independence. I don't know if that will rub off on the COP country delegates enough to let them move heaven and earth, as typhoon Haiyan had show... Read more >

Dear friends, 

It is impossible to put into words the despair that millions of Filipinos are going through right now. Days after Haiyan (Yolanda) sliced through the central islands of the Philippines, it has become horrifyingly clear that the damage wr... Read more >

As I await the start of the 19th Conference of Parties (COP19) on Climate Change tomorrow to be held here in Warsaw, I try to reflect on its significance for me. How earthshaking or exciting will this opportunity be for me? Throughout the course I am ... Read more >