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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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Be part of a Fashion Revolution An ethical one

Fashion Revolution Singapore 2016

On the 24th of April 2013, at the start of a regular work day, Rana Plaza, a multi-storey factory on the outskirts of Dhaka, Bangladesh, collapsed – crushing several dreams, unrealised aspirations and most tragically thousands of lives. What was going on in this rather large facility? It was yet another sweatshop where workers were employed at abysmally low wages in poor conditions to manufacture garments for large apparel brands who satiate consumers need for “fast fashion”, a category …[Read more]

Events,

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NatGeo Earth Day Run #Race4Change and #SwapStation at EcoCarnival

National Geographic Earth Day Run and EcoCarnival

Finally, a trashless race we can get behind! Calling all EcoWarriors and motivated runners to join National Geographics’s Earth Day Run on April 17. This will be Singapore’s first zero-waste, zero-carbon footprint mass public race. It will take place concurrently in Hong Kong, Manila, Taichung and Shanghai. The organizers are promoting fund-raising for WWF on a reforestation project that has direct impact on the region’s haze problem. Another run, ho-hum. Is it really different? You …[Read more]

Kids, Tips and Guides,

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Eat Right 5 sweet snacks with no processed sugar!

These berry popsicles are a perfect substitute for store-bought ice-creams. Beautiful and yummy, they are great for treating kids and adults alike!

Sugar is about just as popular as Donald Trump nowadays. If I were to play word association with you, I bet the first thing that came to your mind after I shouted “sugar” would be “guilt”! Am I wrong? Today’s health conscious consumer is avoiding sodas, canned food and all manners of pre-packaged food, because they overuse high fructose corn syrup and bleached white sugar. Which brings us to the other problem – it is …[Read more]