I got this from a web­site I was vis­it­ing sev­eral months ago, and thought it might be a really good guide for all of us who think that qual­ity is quan­tity, and that the more you’re able to do in a given work day, the more you accomplish.

Tomor­row is the Philip­pine Inde­pen­dence Day. In honor of that spe­cial day in our his­tory, I am fea­tur­ing a round up of the Best Arti­cles on the Philip­pines ever pub­lished in AngPere­grino. Read these if you haven’t done yet, and reread if you have. Maybe you’ll feel a lot bet­ter about being a Fil­ipino, or at least grow in your feel­ing of Nationhood.

There is no “paper­ing over” the prob­lem of paper. Amer­i­can fam­i­lies use the most pulp prod­ucts and in the process are chop­ping down forests, pol­lut­ing the air in the paper man­u­fac­ture process and cre­at­ing methane gas in land­fills. Paper recy­cling is tak­ing hold, and will grow stronger as con­sumers opt for recy­cled pack­ag­ing. Even eas­ier, when you spill some­thing, use a sponge and not a paper towel.

When Trevor Patzer was grow­ing up in Ketchum, Idaho, he received an unusual offer from fam­ily friend Ric Ohrstrom: get admit­ted to New Hampshire’s pres­ti­gious St. Paul’s School, and Mr. Ohrstrom would foot the entire bill for his school­ing there.

Mr. Patzer was accepted and grad­u­ated three years later. He says the expe­ri­ence of some­one offer­ing to pay for his high-school edu­ca­tion had a pro­found effect on him, and the gift was always in the back of his mind, even as he moved to col­lege and into the work world.

Teach​Mate​.org is a ser­vice that helps peo­ple who wish to learn things find oth­ers who wish to teach them. You may think of it as some kind of “dat­ing ser­vice” in edu­ca­tion and learn­ing and development.

The idea of the barter of knowl­edge– teach­ing oth­ers your com­pe­tency and learn­ing some­thing in return– is inge­nious and really cool. I see it as humanity’s way of shar­ing knowl­edge and improv­ing the human gene pool.