This year, Pasig City is 435 years older and we are celebrating it with a BANG! Various programs are laid for the Pasiguenios like the yearly Mutya ng Pasig, Drum and Lyre show, competitions, parades, Senior citizen pageant, etc. but what caught my attention is the EARTH YEAR campaign. Pasig, the Green City, joined the world in fighting against Global Warming. This is a project by the city council headed by our Mayor Bobby Eusebio.
I've been living in this tree plushed city for almost 13 years now. I was originally born in Manila but we migrated to Pasig to literally experience a cleaner environment. I did my elementary years and a year of highschool in Pasig Catholic College, formerly a school exclusively for boys. My family emigrated from Pasig to Antipolo, my second hometown, where i finished my highschool in Roosevelt College Cainta. I spent almost all of my college years in Antipolo, after attending in UST then eventually in UDMC as a nursing student. Before graduation, my family went back to Pasig for undisclosed issues and until now we still reside in a compound with our extended family, like a returnee.
Going back to the Earth Year campaign, the projects that were enumerated to be carried out during the celebation are:
1. Intensified tree-planting (I strongly advocate this!)
I've been living in this tree plushed city for almost 13 years now. I was originally born in Manila but we migrated to Pasig to literally experience a cleaner environment. I did my elementary years and a year of highschool in Pasig Catholic College, formerly a school exclusively for boys. My family emigrated from Pasig to Antipolo, my second hometown, where i finished my highschool in Roosevelt College Cainta. I spent almost all of my college years in Antipolo, after attending in UST then eventually in UDMC as a nursing student. Before graduation, my family went back to Pasig for undisclosed issues and until now we still reside in a compound with our extended family, like a returnee.
Going back to the Earth Year campaign, the projects that were enumerated to be carried out during the celebation are:
1. Intensified tree-planting (I strongly advocate this!)
2. LPG-conversion of government-owned vehicles
3. Activation of waste-treatment plant (After all, Pasig City claims to be the "Recycling Capital of the Philippines"
4. Installation of Solar-powered lamp posts (Wow, kind of cool, but will it only be aroud the city hall?)
5. Launch of Bantay-ilog (I like this!)
6. and Earth Day celeblation
Apart from these are the Anti-Crime drive, Kalusugan ng Mamamayan project, Family Planning/ Senior Citizen/ Dental Program and Discover Pasig. Apparently, the city government aim to convert Pasig City into a tourist destination.
I do hope that all of these projects, programs and advocacies will be carried out well, as planned, with good results! As the local government aim for a greener city then we should to, from ourselves, project a greener world for a better tommorow!
for more information log on to: PASIG CITY ONLINE!
Apart from these are the Anti-Crime drive, Kalusugan ng Mamamayan project, Family Planning/ Senior Citizen/ Dental Program and Discover Pasig. Apparently, the city government aim to convert Pasig City into a tourist destination.
I do hope that all of these projects, programs and advocacies will be carried out well, as planned, with good results! As the local government aim for a greener city then we should to, from ourselves, project a greener world for a better tommorow!
for more information log on to: PASIG CITY ONLINE!
wow, It's nice to know that you love planting trees, that is really a big help in producing Greenhouse Gases.
ReplyDeleteWhen and Where do you plant trees? maybe your readers can join you.
Eating less meat can help also!
Methane is the second most significant greenhouse gas and cows are one of the greatest methane emitters. Their grassy diet and multiple stomachs cause them to produce methane, which they exhale with every breath.
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wow, that is something, we'll keep that in mind... less meat... but that would be so damn hard.
ReplyDeletethank you so much for the comment! see my next post about your query!
btw planting a tree won't produce greenhouse gases (co2).
An unexpected and startling discovery that plants emit millions of tonnes of greenhouse gas methane every year has plunged climate change discussions into disarray.
ReplyDeleteTrees and plants emit up to 30 per cent of the world's methane, Frank Keppler at the Max Plank Institute for Nuclear Physics, Heidelberg, Germany, and his colleagues discovered. After discovering that fallen leaves, or plant litter, produced methane, Keppler investigated whether living plants also produce this highly reduced gas in air - an oxygen rich environment. He calculated that plants give off between 60 and 240 million tonnes of methane per year.
Methane is a relatively potent greenhouse gas. Methane in the Earth's atmosphere is an important greenhouse gas with a global warming potential of 25 over a 100-year period.
Don't you just love methane?
you know you love me.
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i'm sorry of i hadn't made myself clear.
ReplyDeleteto quote what i've said, "btw planting a tree won't produce greenhouse gases (co2)."
may i reiterate that i'm refering solely to CO2. But that is a good point about methane.
I do believe that trees won't produce harmful levels of greengouse gases (CH4). trees are natural occuring compared to plantations and industrial centers that produce HARMFUL greehouse gases.
So we shouln't worry if trees produce methane. it's normal!
furthermore, methane from terrestrial plants are very minimal compared to "SLIGHTLY OVER HALF" of total methane emissions per year due to "Human Activity".
Methane is a potent greenhouse gas that affects Earth's temperature, and we should be blamed for that.
not your cup of tea eh?