Mindful Diet: The Climate (and Food!) Crisis
“They say that if you have one meat-free meal a week for a year, it has the same effect of planting 15 trees a year.”
Tag: weather
More Trees, Please! CO2 and the Temperature
Living trees keep collecting carbon without any power supply needed. All they need are water and sunshine.
Isaac’s Storm by Erik Larson
Would an acknowledgement of failure change anything? Did Isaac have a responsibility to protect the credibility of the weather bureau?
The Secrets of Jeju
Everyone on the peninsula is familiar with Jeju-do – Korea’s largest island but smallest province. But what far fewer people are aware of is the story of its founding or how great a place Jeju is to visit in the wintertime.
Come Rain or Shine
Rituals of Traditional Korea Original article by Shin Sang-soon. Supplemented by David Shaffer. For the agrarian economy of traditional Korea, rainfall during the growing season was critical: too much or … Read More
Let’s Keep Our Lungs Healthy!
“While this is generally attributed to the “yellow dust” phenomenon, in which sand and dust from the Gobi Desert in China are blown over to Korea, the hard truth is that only about 30 percent of the pollution we experience originates from there – the rest is homegrown (according to Greenpeace).”
Read on to explore the whole picture of a polluted Korea