We should plant more trees. Planted in the right places around buildings, trees can significantly reduce air-conditioning costs. This means less Freon, an inflammable and odorless chemical emitted from air conditioners. It is considered to have damaging effects to the ozone layer. And trees improve air quality by producing oxygen. They also store carbon, offsetting harmful byproducts of fossil-fuel burning.

Today’s generation, money is one of the most important things in the world. There’s a saying that money is the blood bank of the world, but do you know where the money made? It is unknown to the majority that the main component of the money comes from hemp (abaca), a kind of tree in the whole of Asia that is only can be seen in the Philippines.
In Sitio Banli that is one of the furthest site in Malapatag Saranggani Province in the Philippines that one of the major means of livelihood of the residences is by taking abaca (hemps). It’s not a joke traveling in the most isolated site in Saranggani. It almost four hours travel going there from the City of Saranggani. We purposely went off at night so as we arrived at dawn, a small community met our eyes.

Mountains in this area have been in the NPA conflict area for several years so we still have a few soldiers from the Philippine Army.It is so steep to climb in the mountain of Sitio Banli that’s why only few people are climbed up in this hidden jungle. a short time ago a tremendously heavy part of the mountain struck us. I do not know who and why these trees are cut off, but over a period of time when I climb the mountains I know it's a bad sight. Four hours later, a lot of houses we saw in the distance. The mountains surround the small Sitio of Banli which is one of the most poor place in the whole of Saranggani, although one of the most area that the sources of the substance of money came from, the abaca. We walked two hours to reach the remote community.


A woman holding a baby greeted me at Sitio Banli, her name was Inday, her son Marico was only one year old but his weight was just four months old. By the side of her, there’s a three-year-old  named Manny, in his cheek and size it was easy to think that she was healthy, but this is not the first time I've seen this kind of body. I know this is not a common fat. It's been a year since I climbed the mountain of Datangnay in the Saraggani province, like Manny's face and the body of the children there, they were all sick of a kind of maltnutrition caused by lack of protein in the body, that’s the effect if you only eat sweet potato all the time. I did not make a mistake in my suspicion, it’s about going to twelve and Manny's dad was still tending to find lunch. Sweet potatoes are their meal every day, morning, noon, and until evening.
 Abaca farmer is the majority of Sitio Banli but because harvesting Abaca is seasonal, they only have money once a year.


The Abaca fiber is the strongest in the world. In All Asia in the Philippines only the Abaca tree is located. Only big Abaca trees can be used to get the fiber, and it should be carefully cut to get the skin. Because Abaca is one of the strongest fiber in the world, it is also used not only for straps and fabrics but also for paper and money that even if it gets wet it’s not easily tear, but it requires strong forces to recover each fiber of abaca. Forty pesos of Abaca's sales per kilogram, Abaca's three trees have to cut and process for a pound of fiber. Forty pesos per kilo is a big source of income if there are so many sources of fiber. At that time, thrice a  year they harvesting the Abaca. But all this changed through the millennium, that was the began to grow bare the mountains. The Abaca tree only grow most of the time in place near with water so it only grows near the river or in areas of shady and cold, when the mountains are blown up, when the trees are gone, the shady that Abaca trees need will be reduced. As I watched the glazed leaves of Abaca, returning to the memories the trees were consuming inexhaustible. So if before they were three times in a year that they were harvesting, now only once a year. One thousand pesos in a year which is eighty pesos per month. I thought of Manny and his brothers, what would cost or would you buy in eighty pesos just only in a month for the children of Tusan.

In the house of Mang Tusan, a bunch of Abaca is stored. It has been a year since its inception, one year when children are looking for sale in Abaca, one year they have been waiting for the opportunity to taste a dish and rice. But to sell Abaca it must be bring at the bottom of the mountain. Mang Tusan will be responsible for six hours of calvary just for all of his children.

Okay, maybe planting billions of trees sounds a little too much to me, too, but what about illegal (or legal, whatever(?)) deforestation? Isn't is disturbing existing ecosystems without caring about them? Didn't it even occur to anyone that we must at least compensate for the harm we have already done to balance it out?

The market has been down for too long. Do you feel like quitting cryto because you ve lost much?
For me, am a die hard fan of crypto. I will be a coward if i run away. I will stay till the green light shows. What about you?

How do you lose weight, especially if you’ra hypersensitive person? There may be others out there who have tried taking medications but ended up stopping due to appearance of rashes in the body. What are the other measures for it, apart from exercise?

As a matter of fact, it is very few number of noobs in the cryptocurrency business that understand the level at which patience is required and valuable in the business. I do tell my friends around me that wish to come in to the business “it’s only patience ones that would feed from the milk of a lion” . I bought some coins few weeks ago, which I decided to hold while it was dipping but I keep holding with zero fear and absolute patience. Presently, i’m In over 47% profit in all. My advice to my colleagues is all you need is buy into coins with good potential and relax even while it’s at dip. Trust me, you won’t live to regret anything if only you would be able to hold with patience. Thanks

Maybe feminism in America is aggressive. Women are very powerful in America and they use that power to frighten men. It is not easy in the USA or Canada to date a colleague. You never know what will follow up. I think men should be nice to women. Men should help them at work if needed and in life. But in most of the cases, women are smarter than men. They actually do not need our help. They just want to live in an equal society. In some countries, women do not have the right to drive or to talk in front of men. This is wrong. In that case, women should fight for their right. In other cases, when women abuse their prerogatives, well the result is terrible. They have no husbands or boyfriends and they end up sad. I believe we should support each other and help women/men whenever they need our support.

I've had a relationship like that. When love blinds my eyes and mind at that time, everything I will do must be known and must be through the agreement of my partner at that time. I think I can only follow all orders from him under the pretext of love. But apparently that is something very wrong.

We learn from our past, they say. I've been through an abusive relationship. That often blurs the lines that define my space even today.

To know this helps me not to repeat my past mistakes but the lesson has come with a price.

I have anxiety almost everyday during conversations with friends when simple questions like “where are you right now?”, “did you end up meeting that old friend on the weekend?” end up worrying me.

Poor and uneducated people are easy to control. Education is very expensive and not all people can afford it. People work in order to survive. Every day millions of people think how to feed the family and survive. People are unhappy. And instead of trying to change their lives for the better, people watch TV, believe the false news and politicians who are pummeling their brains. Poverty is very beneficial to the government.
That is why the answer to your question - only people can overcome poverty (material and spiritual).

THey can't do otherwise. This is how the system is built. Until we switch onto other solutions to transfer wealth, we're doomed to borrow more to repay more.

If you, as a president, want money in the economy, you have to borrow.
If every country repaid their date right now, there would be no more money left in people's pockets.