If you picked up a box of cereal or a canned good in the grocery, you will readily find in the label valuable data such as ingredients and nutrition facts. For many shoppers this information helps them make the right decision especially as it pertains to their health.
In 2005, I dreamt of having my very own coffee farm. Both my parents were born in Manila so we really never had a province to go home to. So, everyone like me who is city-bred longs to have a place you can “go home to,” right? I got involved with Amadeo, Cavite when we adopted a coffee farm of the mayor then to showcase as a Barako Farm. I would go and take our friends there to see coffee growing amidst bananas and papayas.
Sharon Tan Chua is a young mother of three who used to be a pre-school teacher until she put her career on hold to take care of her growing sons aged 7, 4 and 2. Sometime July this year she wrote to us at ECHOstore and asked if she could open a store just like it. It was a very touching e-mail. She praised us for our concept and expressed her desire to have one like it in her “neck of the woods”—in Quezon City.
Fifteen years after Mount Pinatubo erupted, an ecologist at the University of Guam took advantage of the changed landscape to understand how one plant community can replace another in the same area. Thomas Marler collected plant samples from several spots on the eastern slope of the volcano in early 2006. He focused on how the [...]
