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September 2017
Arroceros Nature Park
With climate change an undeniable fact Donald Trump notwithstanding, with cities being heat islands as the motor vehicles and fuel-based activities belch out heat along with the carbon particles, with coastal cities prone to flooding and sinking, we need each and every tree that we can plant and/or preserve. The Arroceros Nature Park was established in 1993 and it serves to mitigate all the above problems as Manila's one and only nature park. Now it is being threatened to give…
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Food and Nutrition Policies of the Philippines: Status and Challenges
We are more than 104 Filipinos in our country of 30 million hectares of land. But agricultural land has greatly diminished by conversion to other uses and / or degraded by unsustainable agricultural practices. What is the food and nutrition policy of our country? Are there policies to assist the poor who are particularly vulnerable to the scourge of hunger? For a discussion of these issues, Please come to Kamayan Para Sa Kalikasan Forum on Friday, Oct. 20, 2017 at…
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December 2017
November 2018
344th Kamayan Para Sa Kalikasan Forum on the IPCC Global Warming Report
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), the global body designated to assess the science related to climate change, came out with its 1.5°C Special Report. It highlights a number of impacts that could be avoided by limiting global warming to 1.5°C compared to 2°C or more, and stresses the need for rapid, far-reaching and unprecedented changes in all aspects of society. Learn more about it and participate in noteworthy programs to address Climate Change. Attend the 344th…
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345th Kamayan Para Sa Kalikasan Forum
The Local Government Code grants local government units the right to plan and manage identified communal forests. Under Community-Based Forest Management Program, these are forest areas where a production-sharing agreement for 25 years and renewable for another 25 years between the Department of Environment and Natural Resources and community organizations in the vicinity shall provide both parties the capacity to co-develop, co-utilize and co-manage them. What is the status of the program? What are its implications to our environment and…
Find out more »January 2019
346th Kamayan Para Sa Kalikasan Forum
In our climate-vulnerable country, disastrous landslides are becoming the new normal, exacerbated by human activities that have increased the risks and the probability of their occurrence. Massive deforestation for example, has always been a major cause of such disaster; new practices like mountainside blasting are also becoming common. Just recently, to give way for the construction of a mini-hydro plant, blasting was done in Oriental Mindoro despite a no-blasting agreement with the Mangyans, bringing misery to a number of its…
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347th Kamayan Para Sa Kalikasan Forum
In response to the massive waste problems in the Philippines, Republic Act 9003 was passed in 2000 to provide for a systematic, comprehensive and ecological solid waste management program. It requires proper segregation, collection, transport, storage, treatment and disposal of solid waste. One of the ways to support this policy as reinforced by many environmental advocates, is to re-purpose plastic wastes by making ecobricks. These are plastic bottle containers stuffed with dry plastic wastes which are used as filler bricks in…
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