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Aug 2017
Green Convergence Board of Trustees for 2017-2018 (from left to right: Standing-Carlo Garcia(Environmental Studies Institute), Clarissa Magsarili (Zero Waste Philippines), Leonor Berroya (Earthday Network Philippines), John Din (Columban Missionaries), Ma. Teresa Oliva (Executive Director, Green Convergence); Seated-Sr. Angelina Villanueva (Association of Major Religious Superiors of the Philippines-Justice, Peace, and Integrity of Creation Commission AMRSP-JPICC), Victoria Segovia (Philippine Women’s University-Environmental Program), Marietta Marciano (Sanib Lakas Para Sa Inang Kalikasan -SALIKA) and Angelina Galang (Philippine Network of Educators for the Environment-PNEE) ...
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What’s Happening in Green Convergence: 2017
JANUARY 2017: A WRITESHOP, DAY 1- PRRM AND DAY 2-UNIVERSITY HOTEL FEBRUARY 2017: LETTER OF ENDORSEMENT TO CA, SENATE AND CONGRESS MARCH 2017: A MARCH TO SENATE APRIL 2017: GC’S GREENING THE CHURCH ADVOCACY MAY 2017: FIRST NATIONAL BIODIVERSITY CONGRESS, 23TH MAY 2017, CROWNE PLAZA HOTEL MS. MA. TERESA M. OLIVA, EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR, GREEN CONVERGENCE (SPEAKER) JUNE 2017: LAUDATO SI PLEDGE LAUNCHING,...
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The Oceans are in Trouble : Protecting Benham Rise
The oceans are in trouble, as ocean explorer, film maker and conservation advocate Alexandra Cousteau puts it. A team of marine scientists found a dazzling array of soft and hard corals, fish, algae, and sponges in Benham Bank,during a week-long expedition in May 2016. They observed one hundred percent coral cover in several sites, with an impressive field of plate corals. We saw terraces of corals, as far as the eye could see. It’s so...
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An Interview with Dr. Angelina P. Galang about GMO
brought to you by: CONSUMERS UNION OF THE PHILIPPINES IN COOPERATION WITH: GREEN CONVERGENCE AND CONSUMER RIGHTS FOR SAFE FOOD PRESENTS: YOU MAY CLICK THE LINK BELOW TO VIEW THE FULL INTERVIEW: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/0BwYPn_CtT3XtNmlPTzhQdDVfbGs
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Education for Sustainability by Rev. Brother Armin Luistro
Magandang hapon po sa inyong lahat. It gives me much pleasure to join you this afternoon but first a correction, I am not a presidentiable, so don’t ask me difficult questions. It is a privilege to join you this afternoon, especially in the presence of Chief Justice, the greenest of them all, sturdy, Reynato Puno. He will share with us the most important jurisprudence that will keep you out of jail so I hope...
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Bamboo Production or Propagation of Bamboo
The continued destruction of our forests has brought about the increasing demand for bamboo in the local and international market. The world bamboo market is currently worth 10 billion dollars per year. Bamboo is not only a high-yield renewable resource, it sequesters 400 percent more carbon dioxide and generates 35 percent more oxygen than an equivalent stand of trees. It serves as an erosion control agent and has a high water storage capacity. Bamboo...
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