Environment

On fences

THIS is our fence as viewed from the outside.
Too secured you say? Try living in our neighborhood.
‘Good fences make good neighbors’. - Robert Frost

Killer billboards

Somehow, I always get awed by billboards.
I am never comfortable passing along busy streets with giant billboards hovering overhead. In our small city in Dagupan, there is this building in the major city road, on top of which is a big billboard with a telecom ad. Every time I pass said area, I never fail […]

Diaper-less tots

I was watching this feature on Fox Channel yesterday about the possibility of having kids going diaper-less at an earlier age.
The idea is to potty-train the babies so that they consumes less diapers, or none at all.
What caught my attention were the varied reactions of the mommies interviewed - as most of them were either skeptical or not […]

On Global Warming

by Louie Tacker
As a follow up to my last article entitled “Forest fires, natural calamities and balance of nature’, I would like to expand some on the whole issue of climate changes and the so called global warming.
 
We in America now enter our tornado season. A tornado, for those not familiar with the term, is […]

Forest fires, natural calamities and balance of nature

by Louie Tacker 
Last week, not far from where I live, a brush fire raged along the shoreline, burning wildly for over five hours inside a government owned park/beach area. Flames were over 30 feet high at times and many families were evacuated, as the fire jumped wildly, upredictably from spot to spot, as over 200 […]