It’s been really scary these past few days. Sendong hit Southern Philippines, with the death toll quickly moving to a thousand. One of our office’s regional Section Chiefs even lost her home but we are thankful she survived.
I remember hearing a talk from Secretary Neric Acosta about the climate changing — and rapidly at that, and experts have even projected that some parts of the Philippines will be totally gone as submerged with water due to heavy rains and rising sea level. Could this be the start of …

Honorable Senator Loren Legarda adopted Senate Resolution No. 666 commending the grand winners of the 2011 National Search for Sustainable and Eco-friendly Schools.
This year’s grand winners are Iliranan Elementary School in Negros Occidental, Camarines Sur National High School in Naga City and De La Salle University-Dasmariflas in Cavite, commended by the Senator for serving as inspirations among schools in their pursuit to be a green learning institution, where students become aware of their roles in protecting the environment.
Full copy of the resolution may be found here: http://www.senate.gov.ph/lisdata/1256710625!.pdf

There’s Run for Pasig… and yesterday, there’s the Oblation Run to save the Philippine Rivers.
Members of the Alpha Phi Omega (APO) fraternity of the University of the Philippines held their annual Oblation Run yesterday with the theme, “Save the Philippine Rivers”. Some of my friends were there, as we got an invite from the Sagip Ilog Pilipinas Movement (SIPM). Too bad they were not able to get photos (and we have no document imaging software). They said they were too far (the route got changed I heard)
It’s great that more …

Please join the call to save the Philippine Rivers. Join the Macli-ing Dulag Award for River Initiative.

Download the form here: http://www.philippinerivers.com/MDARI/nominationform.pdf

I’ve been doing a research on air pollution and found out that there had been an increase on motor vehicles contributing to air pollution in Metro Manila.
I am thinking it could be because there also has been a significant increase on the number of vehicles that have been registered at the Land Transportation Office (source: http://www.lto.gov.ph/Statistics/stats_2010.aspx#sum1). More vehicles plying the road (especially who have gotten no-show permits), the more pollution we have.
This is a serious problem as we all know how dirty air could affect us. You could get a …