weblog of roderick kar

my letter to the editor of south china morning post for today’s edition:
“I wish to share with readers my experiences with unsold yet clean food which could be made available to people in need.
Pret A Manger is known for its donation of unsold sandwiches to charities.
I learned from its website that it is seeking [...]

I was pleasantly surprised when greeted by a pair of non-disposable chopsticks during my first visit in 2009 to my favourite kaiten sushi restaurant in Causeway Bay. I have been bringing my own chopsticks since, ashamedly, only a few months ago when I finally heeded the warnings about how demands for disposable chopsticks are accelerating [...]

A lot of people have expressed their concerns for Tommy the last couple of days. I visited Tommy for the first time this Wednesday, (29/8) since she had been transferred from the hospital to a warehouse where Mary and other caretakers have rented for sheltering of stray cats who are not fit to live on [...]

Tommy is one of many stray cats that my friend, let’s call her Mary, attends to. Tommy is very sick now and "she" wants me to spread her life story so that people don’t mistreat or abandon their companion pets. Being caretakers of stray animals in Hong Kong is not easy. They are always being [...]

If you have missed An Inconvenient Truth on both the big screen and DVD, don’t miss this one. While An Inconvenient Truth has revealed the "truth" about global warming, The 11th Hour is supposed to offer us answers and how we as individuals can change at the 11th hour to create a sustainable future. I [...]

Tim Flannery’s The Weather Makers arrived just now from Amazon. When I checked two weeks ago, Commercial Press had never heard about this book and Page One had only one paperback copy in Festival Walk. And they didn’t plan to restock it. The Weather Makers tells the history of climate change and looks at solutions [...]

花落誰家, a very beautiful and refreshing song from Hacken Lee’s new album. Like many Cantopop it tells a love story, only that it is about loving earth and what it will become if we stop loving it. The beautiful lyrics are written by 林若寧. I didn’t know what 黑臉琵鷺 is so I googled it. It [...]

Letter to the editor of SCMP:
Your article “Movers & savers”, published on December 28, has since served as my guide on how to minimise waste in Hong Kong. The organisations listed in the sidebar “Turn your trash into treasure”, along with a summary of what each one collects, is what socially responsible journalism is about, [...]