Gong Xi Fa Cai! Wishing you a wonderful year ahead, and I hope you all have already managed to appease the Kitchen God, spring clean the house, plan out family get-togethers and – importantly for parents of young kids – thought of activities to fill up the holidays! (If not, this post should help!) The year of the monkey begins, and what better way to start it than on a playful note with this fun …[Read more]
The Heartland e-Waste Recycling Programme is back in 2016! The project – a partnership between South East Community Development Council and Panasonic – creates additional collection points at centrally-located community centres on specified weekends. For every piece of e-waste recycled, vulnerable families receive energy-efficient light bulbs. So really, there is no excuse for you to chute your electronics! Anything that functions with an electric cord will be accepted. Though frankly, there is never any excuse …[Read more]
Tired of making (and breaking!) the same old resolutions? Buck the trend with our checklist that is easy on your will power and the planet’s resources! -Team Secondsguru
Time to recycle the old calendars! 2015 was a watershed year for Secondsguru – it gave me and Lara some of our busiest, longest, craziest, and even the most disorienting instructive days! We now look forward to a 2016 where we can turn all that we learned – from the people we met, the experiences we had, and the sites we surfed 😉 – into fodder for this blog. Wishing you all a Happy New …[Read more]