the sand scorched heat and absence our monsoon rains are late this year and tonight (at last the night) the dogs will sleep inside fresh holes dug to the cool sand not like this burnt afternoon dusk, where the sun…
Category: Environment
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Book Review: Faunaverse Tasmania
'Faunaverse Tasmania' is a book of 26 fun and funky poems about the unique wildlife and flora of Australia's island state (Tasmania). It doesn't matter whether you are a kid or all grown up, you'll delight in Alex and Jane…
Earth Meditations
Sometimes in the business of our lives. The way we study, we plan, we pretend, we protest, we play. And prefer to lose ourselves into a pretence (maybe it’s Facebook) and abandon the presence of who we really are. But…
Book Review: Me, the Tree by Ann Louise Ramsey
The earth has worked her magic on me, in return for my love of being a tree. Anne Louise Ramsey.
Jerry’s Mango Drink
Since moving to Iloilo City, every day Jerry likes to buy a little mango drink for about 25c. He trots down the road with his wallet and 10 pesos and returns with a disposable plastic cup filled with condensed milk,…
Reforestation
from the top of the island where the trees were once bamboo nursery © 2018 Melinda J. Irvine Daily Post: Encrusted I'm part of Post A Day 2018 Location: Calagnaan Island, Carles (Philipppines) Note: A little poem about a new bamboo forest…
Recycling Plastic is Not a Solution
Of course recycling plastic is important, but it's not a solution to the growing issue of plastic waste infiltrating oceans. We all need to use less plastic.
Urduja Floodwaters
Living in a rural area of the Philippines is not without it's challenges but if you look closely enough there are little pockets of joy even in things like the Urduja floodwaters.
Upcycle Your Christmas
The Christmas decorations in Balasan Plaza weren't purchased in a Super Mall. They were humbly assembled by human hands upcycling plastic forks, little coke and sprite bottles, empty chip packets and bottle tops. © 2017 Melinda J. Irvine Daily Post:…
Building a Sand Trap
palm fronds and bamboo stems wait against a broken shoreline for high tide watching their livelihood wash away © 2017 Melinda J. Irvine Daily Post: Dubious I'm part of Post A Day 2017 Location: Pilar, Capiz (Philipppines)
The Urunga Wetlands
The Urunga Wetlands is a heartwarming environmental success story where a piece of natural landscape (decimated by careless production and industry) was reclaimed, remediated and released back into the wild to be shared by a local community. A mineral processing…
The Rains Are Still
the rains are still and the flowers quiet stepping over mid-spring holly and a few eager blooms willing to risk the sun without water my feet crunch a tiny piece of the earth planet focused (old mountain patch) full of…
Can You Live Without Plastic Bags?
My aim is to live completely without disposable plastic bags, but it's a thorny issue and lot harder than I realised. If you read my post from a new weeks ago you'll know that I'm committed to sharing my progress as…
Educating Disadvantaged Kids With ‘Chasing Coral’
Yesterday I screened the new environmental film Chasing Coral at the Tanza Elementary School in the Philippines. Coral reefs around the world are vanishing at an unprecedented rate and this important film follows a team of divers, photographers and scientists on…
Living Without Plastic and Getting Everyone Involved
On Sunday I posted Facebook that I was completely free of plastic bags. Naturally I felt all empowered, got a few likes and felt very proud of myself. But three days in, after a few little 'accidents' in the market…
Reusing the Bottle
Sitting in a bamboo stall drinking soft-drink out of a glass bottle by the Philippine roadside is like an adventure. It's oppressively hot and noisy and the overcrowded buses and trucks and tricycles dragging bamboo stems three times their length…