Here’s an invitation from Miss Earth Foundation’s Executive Director, Cathy Untalan.
Hi friends. Miss Earth Foundation partnered with the National Nutrition Council in its healthy lifestyle campaign. Winners of the Miss Philippines-Earth 2009 go to different schools every week to promote the importance of living a healthy and active lifestyle.
We hope that you will join another project which is this Run for a Cause which is an application of what our beauties for a cause have been advocating for.
NATIONAL NUTRITION COUNCIL, in line its campaign of promoting healthy living and active …

A small group of college students dropped by at the office today for an environmental lecture. They’re Business Administration seniors from St. Joseph College in Quezon City.
Being business majors, we gave them a backgrounder on the Ecological Solid Waste Management Act, which, in a way, forms a good business template (there is gold and garbage, as they say…) and then after, we showed them a video of a school, Cavite Institute, active in its solid waste management system (they call it Wishcraft) so the college seniors would have a clearer …

THE EARTH IS YOUR HOME – AND OUR COMMON GROUND. GO GREEN!
Okay, so I was searching for local environment news to share here (aside from Tita Odette’s Passing ) and came across this global campain to add a new domain — .green — to the internet. So this is not exactly just limited to the Philippines, but also extends all across the globe — from America’s United States (hehe), to the temples in China, to Miami hotels south beach, to the Castles in Europe. This is the …

L-A-H-A-T: Lupa, Araw, Hangin, Ako, Tubig. Lahat magkaugnay.
… this is the motto of Miss Odette Alcantara, one of the country’s staunch environmentalist, and Earth Day Network’s country coordinator. Tita Odette, as she is fondly called by people in the environment circle, died yesterday.
Friends and family will be celebrating her life til October 1. Friends have been calling on each other to “plant a tree for Odette”.
Thank you, Tita Odette, for everything… you will really, really be missed.