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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…

In celebration of the 50th anniversary of Earth Day, we will be featuring 5 local Environmental Defenders who tirelessly fought and championed their respective environmental causes in the last 5 decades. Anna Oposa is the Chief Mermaid and Executive Director of Save Philippine Seas (SPS). SPS is a turning 9-year old environmental NGO that focuses…

Whenever I’m asked what I will be doing after the quarantine, who I will be meeting and catching-up with, where my first destination will be when I get outside of the comforts of my own home, it makes me pause for a moment. I compose myself and try not to burst with overwhelming words brought…

Last Saturday, September 15, you probably woke up at 5:00 A.M to check your phone, wishing that activities will be cancelled due to Typhoon Ompong (international name Mangkhut). You smile sleepily as your wish was granted, reading a chat saying that all outdoor activities, including the Coastal Cleanup, will be postponed. You look out the…