Sow a Thought, Reap a Character. Reap a Destiny.

Sow a thought, reap an action. Most of us have had that thought many times. You see someone who looks like they might be a struggling a bit, maybe they look like they are lost or they might use an…

The Little Match Girl and The Uncomfortable Truth.

I have an uncomfortable relationship with the faults and evils of the world. I come from a country where we think that such things are mostly issues of the past. However, on a global level, they are still conditions that…

5 Reasons To Finish Your Plate (And Reduce Food Waste)

No matter how long I keep shifting the peas around the plate, they just don’t seem to disappear. Then I hear the all-too-familiar words; “Finish your plate young man!”. It’s my mother, who is standing beside me with a stern…

How to know what to know

Nuclear weapons rank pretty high up on the list of scariest things ever invented by people.  Because being able to bomb people to death with traditional methods wasn’t enough, we needed a way to wipe out entire cities in a…

Towards a sustainable style

We are all aware of that there are issues in clothes manufacturing. The text “made in” on a clothing label is quite often followed by a name of a country that reminds us of poor working conditions, cases of child…

Too Young To Achieve Anything?

We’ve all heard the story. A young guy from Seattle spends all his free time in front of a computer screen. He goes to university, but he’s more interested in computers than the courses he’s taking. The young man ends…