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Our food habits can help contain climate change !

Food spectrum, vegan diet, meatless

Our guest blogger today is Michael Broadhead, an IB Chemistry teacher at the Canadian International School, Lakeside campus in Singapore. But that barely begins to define the world of information he communicates to the world in his life as an eco-warrior. Team Secondsguru first met him when he was conceptualizing and putting together the very first Earth Festival in Singapore in September 2015. A first-of-its-kind in our city, the event was created to encourage community-based sustainable and green living. …[Read more]

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Reinvent yourself Can you create your avatar?

Reinvent yourself - Can you create your avatar?

What do you do when you are told you can never walk again? Our Guest Blogger Pooja Arora answered that question nearly two decades ago in a journey that has so far taken her through deep dives in alternative healing and wellness, high peaks of the corporate ladder, even entrepreneurship attempts – and the thread that connects her successes and challenges is the subject of reinvention. Whether it is a habit, a career, a relationship, …[Read more]

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Drab to FabDIY Wine corks to wall deco

DIY wine cork board to brighten up your room

Read the latest from our “Drab to Fab” series. This DIY project has been undertaken by Radhika and Jeff, who have saved up wine corks over the years- from the days they drank wine as friends, to those days when they shared a bottle as a couple and then from the special bottles they had after they got married. Both being travel buffs makes the variety of wine corks even wider. They drew inspiration from Pinterest and got together to create this innovative upcycled cork board. You know how …[Read more]

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#under50dollars Lamp refashioned from old glass jars

Upcycle old glass jars from pastas and pickles into a beautiful lamp

In Sepetmber 2015, we launched the #Under50Dollars Challenge, our creative twist to #SG50, to commemorate the 50th birth-year of Singapore. It was devised for our readers to appreciate the inherent value of things used and old. If you have a good eye, enjoy upcycling… and have some dollars in the pocket, you too can join in and take up the challenge! Our latest entry comes from Neha Agrawal in Singapore. A banker by profession and …[Read more]