For those who wanna spend their time doing something worthy, volunteer for Project Eco-Kids!
PROJECT ECOKIDS is a climate change awareness campaign for kids, being facilitated by the World Wide Fund for Nature - Philippines (WWF-Philippines), the global conservation organization, together with The Hongkong and Shanghai Banking
Corporation (HSBC). This aims to increase the knowledge and awareness [...]

Mayor Sonny Belmonte recently certified as an urgent bill the banning of the use of plastic bags in stores all over Quezon City.
The bill, authored by Councilor Dorothy Delarmente, seeks to reduce and eventually eliminate the “plastic” wastes that have been clogging the city’s esteros and canals, leading to flooding in the metro.
If passed, [...]

Students and administrators of F. de Mesa School have developed a very creative use for old car tires, styro fruit containers, and plastic bottles.
These “waste-turned resource” are now being used as “pots” for ornamental plants and seedlings, as part of the schools alternative gardening project.

Old tires painted and lined-up as pots.

Plastic bottles this time.

Styro fruit [...]

Miriam College has always been at the forefront as far as environmental education in the country (not just in schools, mind you!) is concerned. For one, they have an Environmental Studies Institute, where people interested in green issues and concerns go, to learn the principles needed for a better Philippines.
Miriam College leads by example. They [...]