By Diann Calucin The Caloocan City local government announced on Saturday, Nov. 5, that it has deployed 120 environmental police of the Caloocan City Environmental Management Department (CEMD) to reinforce the city's programs on ecological conservation. Caloocan Environmental Police is a group...
The Pasig City local government partnered with the Masungi Georeserve Foundation to raise awareness and train local teachers on environmental protection in order to mainstream watershed education. Photo from Masungi Georeserve FB page Pasig City Mayor Vico Sotto and officials from the Pasig Schools...
The Philippines needs to enhance its assessment of natural hazards and their risks and impacts following the massive devastation brought by Severe Tropical Storm "Paeng," Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) Secretary Maria Antonia “Toni” Yulo-Loyzaga underscored. DENR...
“Destroying rainforest for economic gain is like burning a Renaissance painting to cook a meal.” This famous quote from the late American biologist and Pulitzer winner E. O. Wilson brings to mind the massive denudation and degradation of the country’s forests and watersheds through rapid...
EDITORS DESK If you find environmental topics boring or if you don’t care at all, and you feel you don’t have the time to listen about how we can help make our lives sustainable and planet habitable, then there is something wrong with you. Your planet — our home — is being destroyed by our...
Since 2019, St. Joseph's Academy of Las Piñas (SJA) has been the Global Lead School in the collaborative international youth program # Decarbonize organized by the Centre for Global Education and TakingItGlobal based in Canada. #Decarbonize seeks to gather the voices and opinions of youth...
Remembering departed loved ones does not mean forgetting yourself and risking your health. (Photo courtesy of EcoWast Coalition) As Filipinos spend the All Saints' and All Souls' Days, or Undas, holidays praying for the souls of their loved ones who passed away, environment watchdog EcoWaste...
WASHINGTON, United States -- Plastic recycling rates are declining even as production shoots up, according to a Greenpeace USA report out Monday that blasted industry claims of creating an efficient, circular economy as "fiction." Pixabay Titled "Circular Claims Fall Flat Again," the study found...
EDITORS DESK When I took an environmental reporting course last year, one of the most important takeaways that I learned was that a majority of the world’s population consider reading or learning about the environment “boring” and not “sexy” enough. There was even a criticism from regular...
Youth environmental advocates are called to join public consultations in October 2022 for the drafting of Implementing Rules and Regulations (IRR) of Republic Act No. 11898 or the Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) Act. This invitation was extended by Juvinia P. Serafin, senior environmental...
Two environmental groups have called on the public to conduct pre-Undas tomb cleaning in a way that does not result in environmental pollution and eventually makes people sick. (Contributed photo) The EcoWaste Coalition and the Mother Earth Foundation urged the public to follow the provisions of...
WALA LANG ECO WARRIORS President Ferdinand R. Marcos Jr. (seated, middle) at the 2022 DENR Multistakeholder Forum at Diamond Hotel in Manila. With the President are (standing from left) Vista Land CEO Paolo Villar, Ayala Corporation's Marianna Zobel de Ayala, FPIC’s Federico Lopez, SM...
