February highlights and the last of community clinics
Some highlights from February of 2022 and thoughts for the future as our grant funding comes to a wrap after one year of impactful community work and inter-organizations coordination between the Cambodian Cultural Center of NC, Bhutanese community of…
The right to land, natural resources and fair compensation in indigenous communities
"Those people are poor because they are stupid." The minorities are "uneducated" and backward. In Vietnam this line used to be repeated by people in authority, parroted by scholars in the academic circles, and unfortunately has also become ingrained into…
How to beat the highest bank savings rate by over 2000 percent
Are you ready to ditch your cheap savings bank and get the high savings yield you deserved and the loan interest that is affordable and fair? Here's my review or guide to getting 1000 percent better yield than your current bank and virtually 0% interest…
Becoming a vegetarian and the fall outs to expect
It's been 3 weeks since I began this plant-only diet. A very tough three weeks. I am constantly hungry. This past weekend, I did not even want to get out of bed. Maybe my body is in shock, I certainly did not give it time to make this a gradual…
Join me for a virtual coffee event for COVID lockdown
I know that an Iced Caffe Americano in North Carolina's Starbucks only costs $7.10, but did you know that $7 can also get you a 20lbs bag of rice in Vietnam? That's why I'm making fundraising and asking you, my friends, to chip in for my Ice Caffee…
2021 – Half Year Review
It has been a while since I wrote and much has happened in that time, personally, and within the community. Six months into 2021, I think this is a good time to review and look back at what I've done and yet to be done. My personal passion for…
Backyard Garden Progression
Re-building my backyard garden by replacing rotten wood walls with cinderblock raised-beds. Needed to till the land and bring soil from higher area of the backyard to even this area so the cinderblocks can be lined up evenly and leveled across the…
I think this might be a first, but shouldn’t be the only – a digital food forest garden NFT
What if you can quit your job to do what you love, and what if that love can transform the world? When so many people go hungry each day, why do we ignore the obvious solution right in front, or actually, behind us? When we turn each home into a model…
Protected: Welcome To The First Digital Food Forest Project!
Food Forest For Greensboro – An Idealist’s Fantasy
In 2019 I wrote a project proposal, complete with budget breakdown and location targets, in the hope that such an idea might gain traction and voted into the city's participatory budget. Suffice it to say, it did not. We do not have a food forest today,…