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May 2019
Environmental Coalition Green Convergence held the 350th installment of the monthly Kamayan Para sa Kalikasan Forum about alternatives to intensive agriculture and achieving food security on May 17, 2019 (Friday) at Kamayan Restaurant, EDSA, Mandaluyong City. Green Convergence President Dr. Angelina Galang emphasized that “agriculture has almost permanently gone to mass farming methods.” “While this has arguably contributed to food security,” Galang said, “it resulted in a common perception that plants used in farming and for food are for such purposes only.” Intensive use of crops solely for mass farming led to......
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“Cha-Cha” gets heavy beating at forum
“The proposed Cha-Cha is anti-Filipino in the sense that it is removing protectionist provisions enshrined in the 1987 Constitution that ensure our right to be in control of our resources.” This was the opening salvo of Bayan Muna General Counsel Atty. Cris Yambot at the 348th session of the monthly Kamayan Para sa Kalikasan Forum, which tackled the proposed Charter Change (Cha-Cha) that would shift the Philippines to a federal form of government. “Furthermore,”...
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Green Convergence forum tackle effectiveness of ecobricks
Environmental coalition Green Convergence held the 347th installment of the monthly Kamayan Para sa Kalikasan Forum last February 15, 2019 at Kamayan Restaurant, EDSA, Mandaluyong City. Resource speakers included Lou Arsenio of Ecobricks Philippines, Chairman Rolly Datiles of Barangay Bagumbuhay, Quezon City and Juvy Serafin of the Solid Waste Management Division of the Department of Environment and Natural Resources. The forum scrutinized the two versions of ecobricks – (1) plastic bottle containers stuffed with...
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Letter of Support for the Mangyan Communities
January 22, 2019 HON. ROY A. CIMATU Secretary Department of Environment and Natural Resources Dear Secretary Cimatu, Isang makakalikasang pagbati! We, participants of the Kamayan para sa Kalikasan Forum held last January 18, 2019 at Kamayan Restaurant on EDSA, echo the call of the Mangyans in Mindoro that they be involved in decision- making processes affecting their communities. In 2015, when Typhoon Nona struck Mindoro, the towns of Naujan, Victoria and Baco suffered from...
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GC to PH gov’t: ‘Respect rights of IPs; no to false environmental solutions!’
Environmental coalition Green Convergence held “Landslides: Today’s Recurrent Nightmare,” at its monthly Kamayan Para sa Kalikasan Forum. Resource speakers included Rodne Galicha of Climate Reality Philippines and Mangyan representatives from Mindoro Virgilio “Ka Mot” Bunsoy and Alangan tribe leader Librada “Ka Badang” Isidro. They discussed the current environmental situation of Mindoro and the disasters that it regularly experiences related to flooding and landslides caused by mining and mountainside blasting. Galicha showed the rich biodiversity...
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Green Convergence’s Galang: “Update PH communal forest policy!”
Environmental Coalition Green Convergence held the 345th installment of the monthly Kamayan Para sa Kalikasan Forum last December 21, 2018 at Kamayan Restaurant, EDSA, Mandaluyong City. Resource speakers included forester Amie Rabang of the Forest Management Bureau and Liberty Talastas-Bituin, a member of the indigenous people in the Cordilleras. They discussed Communal Forest and the status of its implementation. Rabang stated that “there are 649 assigned communal forests all over the Philippines designated through...
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Global warming, ‘urgent concern’ – Green Convergence
Environmental Coalition Green Convergence held the 344th installment of the monthly Kamayan Para sa Kalikasan Forum about the 1.5°C Special Report on climate change of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) on November 16, 2018 (Friday) at Kamayan Restaurant, EDSA, Mandaluyong City. “The report highlights a number of climate change impacts that could be avoided by limiting global warming to 1.5°C compared to 2°C, or more,” explained Prof. Leoncio Amadore from the UP...
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‘Cheaper fuels may impact public health’
October 23, 2018 at 09:30 pm by Rex Arcadio R. San Diego II via Manila Standard Is cheaper fuel the answer? While there is a clamor for more affordable fuels to address inflation, it might be wise for the government and the public to consider its health impacts. Speakers and participants to the recent Kamayan para sa Kalikasan Forum in Quezon City were one in this conclusion. Environment Undersecretary Juan Miguel T. Cuna noted that while...
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Talking about troubled waters
By Patricia Bianca S. Taculao via Agriculture Monthly Life in the Philippines also comes from the sea that surrounds the archipelago. According to the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, the Philippines ranked 8th among the major fish producing countries in the world in 2012. We had a total production of 3.1 million tonnes of fish, crustaceans, mollusks, and other aquatic animals. But the country’s ranking has gradually decreased to 12th with the...
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