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Class issues and climate change

 
I won’t be repeating a thing that scholar Gill H. Boehringer has fluently expounded in an article published in Bulatlat.com. But what I’ll do is to jot down some mental notes that I have — whether leaning or otherwise – to the opinion of the author though I have to say at the onset that indeed, [...]

Time to use our coconuts!

Exhausting. That’s exactly how I would describe a two-day conference aimed at formulating a roadmap for small  group of coconut coir players. How I managed to survive the lengthy hours of scribing the discussions among government, suppliers and funding agencies – is a feat that I have yet to reflect on. 
 I remember what my teacher [...]

Fueling communities through conscious supply chain management

So I used a lot of big words in my title but to keep it simple, I’d like to make Ayala Lands as an example on how companies can sustain local economies by choosing community-based enterprises to supply their industrial needs that include:
1. Recycled paper production (or paper production using raw materials such as grass) as alternative [...]

After Ketsana, earthquake to shake Metro Manila

If there was one thing that Ondoy and Pepeng did to government was to sharpen their disaster-risk reduction capabilities.  Just a few minutes ago, news about a possible earthquake magnitude of 7-8 would shake parts of Metro Manila anytime soon.
The Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology (Phivolcs) has not only predicted its arrival,  it has also said [...]

Policy incoherency in local climate agenda-setting

Psrt of my work is participating on sectoral meetings that aims at crafting a shared agenda for a social or policy issue so that our organization’s own agenda could be reflected.
Since my organization has just crafted it’s advocacy agenda and one of which is climate change, I have started to attend in a multistakeholder discussion [...]

Oneline.ph: increasing chances for non-profits to be noticed

I’m sure you know a lot of non-profits out there who have the best skilled and well-intentioned people with the noblest missions on earth but they just do not know how to say their messages in a powerful way. It might be a problem of audience-message mismatch, visual packaging, core message develepment or campaign strategizing.
If [...]

Photography contests for compelling shots on

To photo enthusiasts who love taking pictures of everyday life — sometimes inspiring, sometimes rivetting — here are forthcoming contests that you may want to look at. I’ve got photos taken during my field work too and they might just be lucky this year. Here are the links:
2009 CGAP Microfinance Photography Contest
Water is Life 2009 [...]

Oh, profits!

It was good to hear that the Department of Trade and Industry has immediately banned retailers from increasing the prices of basic commodities, steel and cement  in Metro Msnils following the declaration of a state of calamity due to the impacts of typhoon ondoy (international name, Ketsana). But it wasn’t also surprising to see that [...]

Play says election is not end of citizen’s role in governance

 

It was a critique’s night and my supposed role was to provide feedback that would help the xreatives to improve a play entitled “Si Juan Tamad, Ang Diablo, at ang Limang Milyong Boto” on youth participation in elections and governance.
By the way, I have aready missed a few national elections and am not still a registered voter. [...]