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Palawan youth group half-shaves heads to save Palawan forests
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…
Klima Film Festival launched for young Filipino filmmakers
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…
Youth network to launch three-part webinar series on sustainability for World Environment Day
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…
Green hearts against COVID-19: Know more ZAMBASULTA’s earth warriors
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,…
Simple deeds in Butuan sprout ripples of hope
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…
Architects, engineers role in mitigating climate change amid urbanization
“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…