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CAGAYAN DE ORO, PHILIPPINES — Two universities from Northern Mindanao ranked 3rd and 5th respectively among the Top 6 sustainable universities in the Philippines published by the GreenMetric World University Rankings last Dec. 7, 2020. Mindanao State University-Iligan Institute of Technology (3rd) and Xavier University-Ateneo de Cagayan (5th) were the only schools in the region…

DAUIN, NEGROS ORIENTAL — Every day, Rebecca wakes up at dawn and heads to the community well to collect water for the island’s households. Her wooden cart (kariton) is loaded with up to a dozen gallons of water which she pushes along the island’s broken road. It is tough work for meager pay. When she…

Puerto Princesa City, the Philippines. Half of the world’s forests have already been destroyed. But in the Philippines, it’s even less than 50%—once 95% covered in virgin rainforest is now just 3%! The threats to our Philippine rainforests keep coming in the forms of illegal logging, wildlife poaching, and mining and extraction companies. That’s why in a…

MANILA, 7 July 2020 — To showcase the creativity of young filmmakers in advocating for climate action through short films, the Climate Change Commission (CCC) and the Oscar M. Lopez (OML) Center have teamed up to launch the Klima Film Festival for original short films revolving around the theme, “Adapting For A Sustainable Future”.  A…

Over the course of three consecutive Fridays starting May 22, the Global Shapers Community Manila Hub is organizing the Sustainability Webinar Series in line with the celebration of the World Environment Day on June 5.  In solidarity with the UN Environment Programme (UNEP)’s international theme, the webinar series will tackle “Biodiversity” through the lens of…

The I CAN team aims to bring simple and cost-efficient solutions and innovations to health, livelihood, education, and the environment within communities through inter-sectoral participation and inter-community development. We started in 2011 when our lead founder Dr. John Michael Dellaliarte proposed a research on the use of soda cans to disinfect contaminated water in Poblacion,…

It has been a couple of days since the “Kaligtasan Mo, Gihuna-Huna Ko” started, an initiative of the youth volunteers concerning the safety and health of everyone amid the lockdown in Butuan City.  With the implementation of Local Community Quarantine to Enhanced Community Quarantine in the city, the members of the initiative still manage to…

“In the near future the harmful effects of climate change will affect how we live, how we work, and do our thing,” warned Architect Vittorio Alejandre Marcus Vinarao, an environmental scientist. In the forum “Banyuhay (Bagong Anyo ng Buhay): Correlating Cities with the Environment,” Vinarao, a full time instructor at Silliman University College of Engineering…

“Write stories that seek to inspire people to take action.” This has been my mantra as a citizen journalist. Since the enhanced community quarantine started, I spent my time on social media looking for news. I pitched inspiring stories of the locals doing their own way to help the community. While I was keeping myself…

“The problem with microplastics is that we have found out that on the surface of microplastics are persistent organic pollutants…and this is what ends up going into our food for that matter, into our water,” said Visiting Scientist Dr. Jorge Augustin Emmanuel of the Silliman University Institute of Environmental and Marine Sciences at the Visayas launching…