I have a lot of dentist friends and I was wondering if they’ve gotten into the practice of eco-friendly dentistry.
Aside from, of course, the biomedical wastes clinics produce on a daily basis, water is also a key environmental element in the field. There’s an article by the Canadian Dental Association in 2007 stating that “Eco-friendly dentistry” attempts to reduce the industry’s detrimental impact on the environment and promote environmental awareness and sustainability to patients.
Eco-friendly dentistry also includes making sure that the patients are okay by “reducing chemical use”. Well, in …

Would like to thank Miss Jasmine Guevara of Community Connect for featuring yours truly as blogger of the week — for this blog, greenphils.
Quoting from her:
“I thought it was pretty neat how she and her friend came up with the OneHeartOneEarth slogan for one of their workshops, where the idea was: “If we only have a change of heart for the environment, we would have a better earth.” Note: “heart” and “earth” share the same letters.”
Well, that slogan was not approved by my boss (awww) but I’m happy that there …

Congratulations, Miss Brazil!
Brazil’s Larissa Ramos is this year’s Miss Earth, taking home $20,000, the $100,000-worth crown, and of course, the prestige of traveling the world as ambassadress of Earth and mother nature.
Our candidate, Miss Philippines Sandra Inez Seifert is first runner-up (Miss Air), second is Miss Venezuela Jessica Barboza (Miss Water), and third, Miss Spain Alejandra Echevarria. Just a trivia, Larissa is the second Brazilian to be crowned Miss Earth, the first being Priscilla Meirelles, who has since been a ‘resident’ of the Philippines. Filipinos do love the pretty …

Congratulations to Peñablanca East Central School, La Castellana National High School, and Palawan State University for winning the Nationwide Search for Sustainable and Eco-friendly Schools!
Here’s the release from EMB-DENR, main organizer of the Search:
National Champs for the Most Sustainable and Eco-Friendly Schools Bared
The Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) through the Environmental Management Bureau (EMB) in partnership with Smart Communications will recognize today (Nov.19) the nine (9) schools declared as national champs for the 2009 National Search for Sustainable and Eco-Friendly Schools.
DENR Secretary Lito Atienza commended the school administrators …