Facebook had recently disabled my account for ‘violating their community standards’ even though I barely posted on the social network and mainly used it for running the Impro Cairns and Weekly Doco Mondays community groups, staying on top of local events and using messenger as a second email account (well, fifth email account to be …
It’s incredible how one song can have such a huge influence over one’s life. I saw one of my favourite bands growing up, Thrice, last night in Melbourne. What a mind-blowing show it was, well worth the wait and trip down from Cairns. Thrice came out strong with many of their hard-hitting classics peppered in …
I’ve just launched a new business selling activated charcoal water filters called ‘Natural Filters’. Please check out the full story on why I launched this business here.
We and our one and only home, planet earth, are the guinea pigs in this failing experiment of perpetual economic growth. This short little video eloquently and simply illustrates the impossibility of our current economic system. Please share!
Here is a little poem I wrote a few months ago which I didn’t think much of until I shared it with a few friends who really enjoyed it. I’ve been reading Charles Eisenstein’s ground-breaking book Climate: A New Story which this poem perfectly aligns with (check out this talk for a summary of the key ideas). I …
Hello folks and sorry for the radio silence. I’ve had to drastically change my plans over the past few months and put an end to my long-term travels for several reasons, the biggest one being my health. I’ve developed an autoimmune condition known as Alopecia totalis and I would like to use this post to …
I can’t believe that on this exact day 9 years ago I was dead to the world. I was unconscious, in a deep coma on a hospital bed in the so called ‘intensive care unit’ in the Kuala Lumpur public hospital, attached to life support and gone to the world. Mum and I later found …
It is with a heavy heart that I announce my resignation from my leadership role as the CEO of Less Meat Less Heat. I hope you will take the time to read and understand my reasons for doing so as I have in my best attempts to explain and communicate them to you. Ultimately my …
Most likely your cat walked on the keyboard and the random keys it pressed spelled out this URL (aka the infinite monkey theorem), but if you’re in the minority who came here looking for Mark Pershin, then it is I, and this is the story of why I now call myself Igor Voronkov. I was …