CYBERACTIVISM!

A comment from my last post prompted me to blog a post about online activism/ cyberactivism. Although I have added information about online activism on my page, courtesy of Greenpeace.org, I must've forgotten to introduce CYBERACTIVISM by Greenpeace International!

Translation: Cyberactivism network. Just click and make a change.

You can help spread the awful news about the drastic changes that affects us and ultimately the mother Earth and the ways to alleviate the problem by blogging, like this, or by signing-up to the forum Louder than Words (click the picture on the upper-right corner of this page or fill-up the form at the bottom part of this page). You can also register in Greenpeace.org to participate in submitting petitions and pleas for you personal advocacies. My latest petition is to free the two Japanese activists who were arrested for allegedly stealing whale meat wherein they presented those whale meats as evidence, as a basis of corruption in the midst of government's whaling programme, follow the full story.

I was asked when and where do I plant. Well I can say that I do it here, online! With my busy schedule planting a tree, literally, is unatainable though I would love to that! The last time I planted a tree was on highschool, but I think I did planted cactuses and orchids years after that, haha. Anyways, we have lots of plants at home.

Be an online activist! There are many means on how to fight global warming or whatever advocacy you might be interested with, one of them is to blog online and give information about it. Imagine how many people are logging-online and some of them will be routed to your page and touched by one of your posts. Luckily, that person could be planting the next day or a corporate leader might stop deforestation at will.

Again, my simple advocacy is for a tree to survive, with them we'll survive.

Join Greenpeace.org and be informed!

PASIG EARTH YEAR

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!)

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!

Campo Crame> Prados de Oro> Campo Crame

June 7, a very busy day, with two commitments.

1. Bevs' birthday, with 'my college barkada', held inside their condo at Camp Crame, at 3PM.

2. Dessa's birthday, my cousin, held at Golden Meadows around 7PM.

Well, this isn't new. I'm always torn between events, and again it is not an option to choose!

My day started by coming home from a night out. Yes, that's how my day starts! I'm home at around 7AM, just rested myself and freshened up. At 2PM, I met up with Benson in front of the church there in Stella Maris and then went to Megamall to buy something for the birthday girl. I love brownies so we did bought 3 boxes from Brownies Unlimited as a gift but secretly for my own craving! We head afterwards to Camp Crame and were almost lost. In front of CIDG I texted Ches, Bev's boyfriend, for help. Take note, this was like my nth time visiting the camp and still I'm lost! No sense of direction!

Finally, we're all there, eating started. Shrimp Tempura and Carbonara are my faves in the table. Stuffed, the birthday girl invited us to her sari-sari store near the barracks. We were joking on how much they add to the products base price. But hey, the store was pretty complete and air-conditioned. Fab. They planned for a possible gimmik though I had to go, but I promised to go with them after the family affair.

Around 8PM I left for Antipolo. I met up with Jay and Laine at Burger King Cainta. At Dessa's, I recharged, had a power nap. Upon waking up I had an A.P. moment with my brother. Apparently, he let himself stay behind while Julie, my sister, should have sent him home with her. They know I'll go somewhere afterwards. She went to work alright but she'll pass by our recidence's vicinity so that shouldn't be a problem. Obviously they savotaged me. Haha. I grunted like a bull over my brother while he's on the phone talking to someone I don't know. Major Attitude Problem. Well, what can I do, I have to send him home, I have no choice.

Along Rosario bridge, Me and Jay looked at each other with a mischevious smile. I'm off to Crame, he's going to Eastwood. We should ride Cubao Alimall but several jeepney's with that signboard already passed. We saw someone we liked. Haha. But that person is not going our way, possibly Ayala FX. Oh well.

Back at Crame I was welcomed by RH Muchos! Massive! Racel ranted his heartaches. Anna and Jun reminisced. Bevs and Ches confided longevity. Mica and Jonas apparently spoke but left. We were left there with MagicSing and few beers. I sang Don't Wanna Lose You by Gloria Estefan. Then in a blink of an eye, I was the spotlight. Sorry guys, it'll bore you. Anyways, the day ended sleeping while sitting and the following day started waking up while still sitting.

I went home, slept and woke up for ASAP.

Lesson Learned: Use your photographic memory to avoid being lost.

Conclusion: Draining yourself after a stressful week 'coz of work is therapeautic in a way. Like a rechargeable battery, it's best that you drain it before recharging fully.

Protect Paradise Forest

Do you know that lathering a soap, munching chips and lavishing yourself with a chocolate actually, in a away, contributes to deforestation and ultimately climate change? See the video.

Dove Onslaught(er) from Greenpeace on Vimeo.

The link? Palm Oil Demand.

Palm oil is a raw material derived from forest trees used for beauty products, foods and biofuels. Many industries/companies, like Unilever, Procter & Gamble, local or international, use palm oil for mass production. Deforestation as a result of palm oil demand is quite alarming, see the result.



Imagine the life that were taken from the habitat, they may have not been deliberately killed but the species (Tribes, Orangutans, Sumatran Tigers, Rafflesia, insects, and of course the Ancient trees! around that area will definitely die, in time, if they are not that fast enough to adapt.

Greenpeace took action, as well as the millions that sent petitions for a moratorium to stop deforestation of the Paradise Forest of Indonesia and Papua New Guinea, one of the largest forest reserve in the world. Well, good thing, Unilever took action by putting a hold on importing palm oil until there is a clear law about the harvesting of palm oil, but the damage has been done, they even said that they have a sustainable supply until 2015. Imagine that! We hope that other companies, big or small players, and even the locals start thinking about this massive destruction and what this would cost us in the near future.

Solution: Control.

Help us!

Post Script: Cadbury has palm oil, hmmm, but I still love it!

For full reports and links, click here!

Plant or Save a Tree

Off to work at 9PM, I look like so haggard. I sweat inside a building that is supposed to be with a working air conditioning system, I don't know If it's busted or something but definitely it's not working as it supposed to be. I go out from work at around 7AM and it's freakin' hot! I know it's summer but this year is sizzlin', the sun is not even directly hittin' me since there are tall buildings all around Eastwood City. The air is humid, I'm perspiring like a leaf with droplets of dew. When I'm back home, I try to sleep in this kind of weather, our fans blow warm air. How am I goin' to be cooled and doze off? Imagine, this summer, all of our electric fans broke down. Could be because of overuse but possibly the engine can't stand the heat as well.

Judging from these facts that I do observe everyday plus the world facts about massive ice melts, forest fires, heat wave, tornadoes, violent storms, etc., well I firmly believe that Global Warming is dead serious.

Basically this is thethe Green-house Effect that our teachers have been telling us when we were in elementary about CO2 being trapped inside the Earth's atmosphere.

Immediately I thought of a tree.

Doesn't trees consume CO2 to snythesize their food? They could be our bestfriend, or inevetibly our saviour. I myself have experience a help from these sturdy, living, but non-ambulatory trees (compared to Elks... toinks!) once in a while. It gives us shade from the dreary sun, shelter from the gloomy rain, food for hunger and a carving canvass for emo-lovers.

I've been dreaming of planting a Sequoia or a Sycamore.

Imagine the big help these trees can offer us with this 'Earth Problem'. But we have to help ourselves as well since trees, especially the trunks, are major raw material for production and construction. It should be mandated that for every tree cut is equivalent to five trees planted, not relocated.

Plea: Plant or save a tree. Moreover, if you are unable to do so please at least do something else that could count as a help to alleviate the problem.

Post Script: By the way, is smoking a contributory factor to Global Warming? How about being just plain HOT?