• filter
    Water Filters Campaign for 2011-2012
    July 25, 2011, No comments

    Working in close conjunction with Steve Rutledge and Mike Yap, the founders of Adopt a Village in Laos, a not-for-profit Canadian registered organization (#1755378), I have been volunteering my services [...]

  • mmarket
    Microfinance: Halfway into 2011
    July 20, 2011, No comments

    2011 has certainly been an active year within the microfinance industry, and not necessarily for the right reasons. It brings to mind endless revelations and discussions within the media on [...]

  • mumbai
    Fodder For Thought
    July 12, 2011, 1 Comment

      Climate change has given us plenty to gripe about during those depressing coffee table discussions about the state of the world. Personally, it has affected me in a very [...]

  • river
    Are You Born or Do You Become Green?
    June 30, 2011, No comments

    Mumbai, who’d rather be addressed by its Victorian moniker Bombay, is a city immortalized and romanticized in many a film reel. Bombay is where dreams are realized, or crushed, as [...]

  • sw1
    Striding Through the Sea(weed) of Change
    June 27, 2011, No comments

    Farming is the most common form of work outside the industrialized nations, and on every continent there are changemaker organizations working to help farmers – help with their resources, their [...]

  • green-party-300x67
    Go Green & Make Connections
    June 23, 2011, No comments

    On Saturday, June 18,  I did another presentation of  ‘To Laos with Love: Presentation Series’ on the patio of Java Jive, my favourite neighbourhood cafe, where I am conducting these [...]

  • woman-asking-for-land-rights-in-andhra-pradesh-India
    Women Know the Answer
    June 17, 2011, No comments

    She was one of at least 40 landless women who demanded to meet with us that day.  They had heard that we would be visiting their village to talk with [...]