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Action on Climate Action on Climate ChangeChange

What you can doWhat you can do What we, can do What we, can do

together!together!

Earth: The Only Planet which contains ….

4.5 Billion years

Composed of the delicate mixtures of the basic elements of Life. Air, Water and Soil

Industrial Rev barely 200 years ago Significance of IR: Started to use sources of

life faster than rate of replenishment)

ENVIRONMENT?ENVIRONMENT?

Environment-Not about birds and bees,

LIFE and Sources of LifeLand, Air and Water (LAW)Vital Organs of LIFE - Trees and forests-

Lungs- Land & soil - skin and

flesh- Sea and waterways –

blood and bloodstreams- 70% of the human body

and of the Earth is water

Applying the Applying the Mindset of Mindset of

Extraction and Extraction and ConsumptionConsumption

BURNING OF BURNING OF FOSSIL FUELSFOSSIL FUELSAir PollutionAir Pollutionand Global and Global

HeatingHeating

Development!

Revenue; Profit; Progress, Development?

DEVELOPMENT BASED ON THE AMOUNT OF ENERGY PRODUCED AND USED AND VOLUME OF WASTE GENERATED?

Used, used up, dirtied

Waters

Mining: DISEMBOWELED THE EARTH, SCRAPE AWAY LIFE GIVING SOIL AND THROW AWAY WATER >Revenue?

PARADOX OF DIAMOND AND WATER > Or Depletion of the natural capital?

“Industrialized” Developed economy?”

CONSUMPTION?

??

Economics

Highly-consuming Economics efficient use of scarce resources.

“Development based on Extraction and ‘Consumption’

5% of people- 30% of

resources)

Need 5 earths to satisfy the consumption patterns

Is Waste Economical?“Developed Economy” -- contradiction of terms?

“Developed and developing” countries? Over Consuming Countries (OCCs), a.k.a., Obsessive-Compulsive Countries)

Obsessive-Compulsive – in Psychology, a mental disorder a symptom of which is excessive hoarding of material things.

Low Consuming Countries Change words, change meaning, change

implications, and then change mindset

Mt. Makiling 4,000 ha.USA: 1 B ha

NEW MAMMALS

BASED ON BASED ON A PER UNIT A PER UNIT OF AREA, OF AREA, OUR LAND OUR LAND IS THE IS THE RICHEST RICHEST

ON EARTHON EARTH ((in in endemicity)endemicity)

70%

Paradigm of extraction and consumption

• 6 volumes, 4218 6 volumes, 4218 pppp > > 100 experts100 experts contributing contributing Seaweeds, corals, bivalves, Seaweeds, corals, bivalves, gastropods, cephalopods, gastropods, cephalopods, crustaceans, hagfishes, crustaceans, hagfishes, sharks, sharks, batoid fishes, chimaeras, bony batoid fishes, chimaeras, bony fishes, sea turtles, sea snakesfishes, sea turtles, sea snakes, , estuarine crocodile, and marine estuarine crocodile, and marine mammalsmammals

The “PHILIPPINES IS THE CENTER OF THE CENTER OF MARINE BIODIVERSITY ON EARTH”– Dr. Kent Carpenter/UN FAO Study

3 Million Hectares

0.2% INTACT Over-fishing

Destructive Forms of Fishing

Used, used up, dirtied

Waters

16 Rivers are dead

Violations of Laws!

In the Laws of Nature,

There is no right nor wrong,

There are no rewards nor punishments;

There are only consequences.

Global Warming and Climate Change Accumulated consequences of our excessive extraction and consumption behavior

What can we do?

Crisis : Gravest threat to Mankind Greatest Opportunity

Philippines contributes ¼ of 1% of the global GHG (HTG) but is the most vulnerable to the adverse impacts of climate change.

Climate change could have a devastating impact on the Philippines, leading to widespread destruction of the country's flora and fauna and flooding the capital Manila, a NASA scientist warned here Friday.

The continued melting of Arctic ice caps, brought on by climate change, could cause sea levels to rise by seven metres (23 feet), said National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) physicist Josefino Comiso. He said the country's fish stocks would be depleted and many species of plant and animal life would die because of the change in ocean temperatures caused by climate change.

PANAY NEWS, 7 Feb 2009; By Jun Ariolo N. Aguirre

BORACAY – An assessment made by marine experts said the powdery white sand beach of this island will be submerged in sea water several years from now because of the Sea Level Rise (SLR) and other key factors.

Global warming experts from the National Research Council of the Philippines (NRCP) of the Department of Science and Technology (DOST) and from the University of the Philippines Marine Science Institute recently presented this finding to stakeholders here.

“These observations have been corroborated by the island's 15 to 20-year residents and news reports,” she added.

JUST LIKE OTHER MAJOR ASIAN CITIES: Manila, coastal villages under threat from sea-level rise ( By TJ Burgonio);

Source: Philippine Daily Inquirer, 23 Sep 08MANILA, Philippines—Coastal communities in the Philippines are under threat from sea level rise, while a mega, but low-lying city like Manila is vulnerable to more disasters, according to a World Vision report.

Infrastructure & Transport

Can you afford economic dislocation? For how long?

A FORETASTE OF THINGS TO COME

Fast forward- 6 months later

danger opportunity

CRISISCRISIS

The Story of The Story of the Kingthe King

Story

- The first shoe, Crisis, Conservation of Life-sources, Mind-shift from wasteful use to use that is wise and sustainable

-Rising to the claim and challenge of Humans being the wisest animal on Earth

-Law? Perhaps law, as a thinking profession, can make a little contribution to humanity’s role as the thinking part of Nature

We cannot solve problems using the same mindset that created them in the first place

Jump out of the Box-turn it upside down and shake it

Shifting Mindset from THE ECONOMICS OF

Consumption to ECONOMICS OF

Conservation, Protection and Restoration (CPR)

(david Brower)

NATURAL CAPITALISM, GREEN / ECO-ECONOMICS, SUSTAINABLE ECONOMICS --DO NOT USE CAPITAL,

ONLY INTEREST - PROPER ACCOUNTING!

Healing the Lungs of the Earth

Banaue rice terraces:

< 2000 years old

Restore wealth of the Earth’s Flesh -- the soils- Restore wealth of the Earth’s Flesh -- the soils- source of or food!source of or food!

Agricultural lands- Contour-SALTAgricultural lands- Contour-SALT

CPR CPR ECONOMICSECONOMICSrestorative restorative EconomicsEconomics

Restoring Marine Ecosystems

Shifting mindsets Man is more than matter Basics: Security, Health, Food, (Maslow’s

Hierarchy of Needs) … (Happiness indicators – social relations, work, and leisure intellectual, emotional, and

spiritual fulfillment

Restoring not only the life-support systems but also the connection between man and Nature

SAGAY MARINE RESERVE (32,000 Ha)

Anilao, Batangas Apo Island (Neg Or.) Puerto Princesa City

(Palawan)-eco-tourism and agriculture, health, sports, housing

Nueva Vizcaya (restored forests-water flow)

Many More

Costa RicaCuba (health,

sports, education)

Bhutan (Gross National Happiness)

1. Traffic jam2. Travel on single

file3. Do not take up

more space and materials than necessary

4. Do not pollute the air that they breathe while traveling to and from their places of work (source of food)

5. When they bump into each other, they do not argue, fight and sometimes kill; no road rage

6. Instead, they bow at each other

WASTE: SPACE,WASTE: SPACE, Square meters Square meters METALS, METALS,

RUBBER, RUBBER, PLASTIC, PLASTIC,

COST: CAR-FUEL-COST: CAR-FUEL-viz riceviz rice

INSURANCE, INSURANCE, MAINTENANCEMAINTENANCE

ACCIDENTS: ACCIDENTS: DEATHS, INJURY, DEATHS, INJURY, DAMAGEDAMAGE

AIR POLLUTIONAIR POLLUTION Our insistence at Our insistence at

individual individual mobility has mobility has resulted in resulted in serious serious collective collective immobilityimmobility

INERTIA OF COLLECTIVE INSANITY

THINKING OUT OF THE BOX

JUMP OUT-TURN IT UPSIDE DOWN- SHAKE IT

PROGRESS IN HUMAN THOUGHT AND CIVILIZATION

CAR-OUSEL?

PEDAL? Use excess manpower

Discount

Sense of fun

Sense of community and human interaction

Sometimes words have to be a little wild…,

Those of have less in wheels must have more in roads…. Is a city made for … cars or for people?

Pathwalk

Filipino Design

Prototype of a CAROUSEL:

Example is the best teacher

Prototype of Man-Powered Mini-Train

PINOY Karusel -- U Tube

RAIL

Before the power of the Before the power of the combustion engine -- ___ ? combustion engine -- ___ ? Before __ Power? was ____ Before __ Power? was ____

powerpower

“Sometimes words have to be a little wild… because they are the assault of thoughts upon the unthinking.”

Puerto Princesa-April 1

Marikina 60 kms of bike lanes

RAIL BUS

Restoring not only the life-support systems but also the connection between man and Nature

Shifting mindsets Man is more than matter Basics: Security, Health, Food,

(Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs) … (Happiness indicators – social relations, work, and leisure intellectual, emotional, and

spiritual fulfillment

SAGAY MARINE RESERVE (32,000 Ha)

Anilao, Batangas Apo Island (Neg Or.) Puerto Princesa City

(Palawan)-eco-tourism and agriculture, health, sports, housing

Nueva Vizcaya (restored forests-water flow)

Many More

Costa Rica Cuba (health,

sports, education) Bhutan (Gross

National Happiness) Curitiba, Brazil Bogota, Colombia Borneo-rainfall,

water, biological diversity

EducationEngineering Enforcement

Focus on a bio-geographic unit

CENTRAL PHILIPPINE ISLANDS

VISAYAN

MARINE TRIANGLE/

WWF-thank you

Education:Education: Informal education: In 2002: Informal education: In 2002: Bantayan Island SEA CampBantayan Island SEA Camp

Mission: To Teach by Example and ExperienceMission: To Teach by Example and Experience

SCHOOL OF THE SEAsSea and Earth Advocates

Teach by Example and Experience: SHOWCASE Beauty and Bounty of the Philippine Islands, and Filipino ingenuity and artistry

TOTALLY powered by RENEWABLE ENERGY (SOLAR AND WINDMILL,

L.E.D. LIGHTS: 0.5 – 1.0 WATT Renewable energy

and Energy Conservation

Panch: The father of Small Renewable Energy Systems

LED Lights

Natural ventilation

Wind Circulation

Multi-purpose Hall/Dorm

Hardly any nails

THE BEST TEACHERS ARE : EXAMPLE AND EXPERIENCE

SCARCE AND FRAGILE FRESHWATER IS VULNERABLE TO DEPLETION AND CONTAMINATION ESP IN AN ISLAND COUNTRY LIKE THE PHILIPPINES

ELEVATED BATHING AREAMake it a little difficult to get water to make us better appreciate the value of fresh water- limited supply and fragile quality (Senior Citizens >65 exempted)

FLUSHING WATER;

Flushing Water

WATER (CLOSED LOOP WATER SYSTEMS); (WATER WELL, ELEVATED SHOWER, FLUSHING WATER, CLEANSE WASTE WATER BY WETLANDS

LIVING THE PRINCIPLES

WaterlessLight to

improve trajectory

Learning about marine life while ….

Water-proofed flowerpot

AMMONIA COLLECTED AND USED FOR FLORA

METHANE CAPTURED IN A BIOGAS DIGESTER AND TURNED INTO COOKING GAS-INAUGURATED AND OPERATED ON MAY 2, ‘08

THE KEY TO SOCIETAL CHANGE

Students experiment to understand water pollution

Bebet G: as teacher

3000 PLUS 3000 PLUS GRADUATES: Volunteer GRADUATES: Volunteer teachers of the teachers of the Bantayan Island SEA Bantayan Island SEA Camp:Camp:

Outreach – 7,000 Outreach – 7,000

THE BEST TEACHERS ARE? Ex… and Ex…

Design of School of Design of School of the SEAs the SEAs

ReconstructionReconstruction

Raised – on StiltsRoof-deck and walls made of plants

and vegetablesTotally recycle water (banyo) --

pump up, bathing, flushing, solid waste to biogas digester and cooking gas

Totally powered by renewable energy

Plant boxes at Windows for climbing Vegetables

FILIPINO Genius at work in the World Trade Center

1

2007 expedition

GEMS OF HOPE

Pan de Azucar Concepcion, Iloilo, 19 Apr 07

11°16'41.9" 11°16'41.9" NN

123°11'10.4" 123°11'10.4" EE

2

2 boats-toured the Visayan Sea April to May 2007

Physical Engineering

2006-2007

36 SITES36 SITES

3 SITES3 SITES

16 SITES16 SITES 18 SITES18 SITES

TOTAL: 110 sitesTOTAL: 110 sites

Engineering: Physical Engineering: Physical Engineering Underwater Engineering Underwater

Survey: Survey: 2006 Visayan Sea Expedition2006 Visayan Sea Expedition

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DOT-PCSSD: Thank you

36 SITES36 SITES

3 SITES3 SITES

16 SITES16 SITES 18 SITES18 SITES

Control Marine Resources Criminality

DEC. 16, 2004: Cavite

30,000 sticks, thank you IBP! Jovy

COMMERCIAL FISHING BOAT OWNERS

Blast fishermenBlast fishermen Commercial fishing Commercial fishing

intrusionsintrusions

Law enforcement must be swift, painful and public

CREATIVE PENOLOGY

Adversaries to Allies Program

Our version of ‘Politics is addition’

De La Victoria earlier told reporters De La Victoria earlier told reporters that he received information that that he received information that there was a One Million reward for there was a One Million reward for the person who could assassinate the person who could assassinate him and Oposa.him and Oposa.

MORE RAIDS VS MORE RAIDS VS COMMERCIAL COMMERCIAL FISHING BOAT FISHING BOAT OWNERSOWNERS As we speak…

Anti-Fencing

January 27, 2009

Explosives

Next week – Filing of Administrative and Anti-Graft Charges against ALL Barangay Officials – Gross and Inexcusable Negligence for allowing illegal activities

to happen in their territorial jurisdiction

Enforcement FORESTS

AND THE LAW

We lawyers are artists; Storytellers of the stories of our clients – people

Trees: Law is thinking tool/medium of our art

800,000 hectares left of virgin 800,000 hectares left of virgin forestforest

1988-logging done only in 1988-logging done only in virgin forestsvirgin forests

3.9 million hectares given to 92 3.9 million hectares given to 92 logging corporationslogging corporations

Purpose of the case– Purpose of the case–

Not A LAWYER, ONLY Not A LAWYER, ONLY StorytellerStoryteller

NOTE!NOTE!

Legal QuestionLegal Question

March 1990Enforce a Constitutional Provision

Their personality to sue in behalf of the succeeding generations can only be based on the concept of inter-generational responsibility

Mark Twain: Confidence and Mark Twain: Confidence and IgnoranceIgnorance

While the right to a balanced and healthful ecology is to be found under the Declaration of Principles and State Policies and not under the Bill of Rights, it is no less important than any of the civil and political rights of human beings.

• Such a right … concerns nothing less than the Such a right … concerns nothing less than the right to self-preservation and self-perpetuation, a right to self-preservation and self-perpetuation, a right that may even be said to predate all right that may even be said to predate all governments and constitutions.”governments and constitutions.”

• If they are now specially mentioned in the If they are now specially mentioned in the fundamental law of the land, it is because … fundamental law of the land, it is because … unless it is written in the constitution itself, unless it is written in the constitution itself,

the day would not be too far when all else would be lost …

not only for this generation but also for succeeding generations …. generations which stand to inherit nothing but a parched earth incapable of sustaining life.”

Not able to tell a story, but able Not able to tell a story, but able to assert the right to tell a story to assert the right to tell a story in your behalf, in your behalf,

In the process, sent a message to In the process, sent a message to humanityhumanity

Incidentally, DENR Banned all Incidentally, DENR Banned all logging in virgin forests and logging in virgin forests and

1992 NIPAS Law (RA 7586)1992 NIPAS Law (RA 7586)

Apply the principle of Apply the principle of seven generationsseven generations

The “PHILIPPINES IS THE CENTER OF THE CENTER OF MARINE BIODIVERSITY ON EARTH”– Dr. Kent Carpenter/UN FAO Study

AMAZON OF THE SEAS, PHILIPPINE SEA OF THE FORESTS

Water Pollution: Manila Bay Water Pollution: Manila Bay

1990s-200 MPN OF FECAL COLIFORM >1,000,000 MPN 1990s-200 MPN OF FECAL COLIFORM >1,000,000 MPN

• 1989 Sagip Ilog ng Kabite; 1993 Ateneo Law Students1989 Sagip Ilog ng Kabite; 1993 Ateneo Law Students• 1998: UP Law 4 M GALLONS OF Raw sewage; every day 1998: UP Law 4 M GALLONS OF Raw sewage; every day • If cared for, it can provide protein for the entire metro If cared for, it can provide protein for the entire metro

manilamanila• Source of great recreation – for free (not a Mall)Source of great recreation – for free (not a Mall)• 90 % of what fishermen catch was pure garbage90 % of what fishermen catch was pure garbage• Lack of Political will!Lack of Political will!

Supplant lack of political will with the ---

WILL, FORCE and POWER, of the Law

Have the Plan Implemented

Almost 4 years

Jan 1999-Sept 2002

2006, now in the Supreme Court

Thank you, PSAF and OSG

Pro bono …

News articles:

Why revolutionary? It creates an upheaval. Turn their world upside down and light a match under their butts

1. DENR – to implement Operational Plan to clean up Manila Bay

2. Local Governments – implement waste management programs

3. MWSS, 4. LWUA, sewage treatment 5. MMDA – Solid Waste Mgt 6. DPWH -- remove illegal structures from the

waterways, 7. DepEd – environmental education, 8. DOH – monitor where septic and sludge

excavators 9. Coast Guard - patrol vs illegal fishing 10. National Police -- Maritime Group } 11. DILG – all LGUs, implement Solid Waste Mgt 12. Philippine Port Authority 13. DBM-TO PROVIDE FUNDS 14. Dept of Agriculture – Bureau of Fisheries

(BFAR)

Clean Up -Report to the SC 90 days - Preserve its cleanliness - Supreme Court into the Executive Functions ?

Monitor -- compliance of the Plan that all the Government prepared and adopted.

LIVING Decision!

1 to 1million , done only one

GIVING THEM A REASON TO TAKE SERIOUS ACTION

25 August 2009; Inquirer

SEPT 5, 2009

DAVOS -- The world is heading toward "water bankruptcy" as demand for the precious commodity outstrips even high population growth, a new report warned Friday.

In less than 20 years, water scarcity could lose the equivalent of the entire grain crops of India and the United States, said the World Economic Forum report, which added that food demand is expected to sky-rocket in coming decades.

"The world simply cannot manage water in the future in the same way as in the past or the economic web will collapse," said the report.

Water has been consistently under-priced in many regions and has been wasted and overused, the report said.

• Benefits of Rainwater Catchment Ponds•  • These rainwater collectors serve a myriad of benefits, among which

are that they:

• Catch rainwater, and thereby significantly minimizing, if not altogether prevent flooding

• Store water and recharge the underground water (the “aquifer”). This is the underground ‘water well’ from whence we constantly draw with our water pumps, but which is not replenished.

• Serve as a water source, especially during the dry season, • Provide for a habitat for fish and other aquatic lives that can be the source of

protein for our hungry-poor brethren.• The banks of the ponds (rainwater collectors) may be planted with vegetables,

additional food source for all concerned.• Rainwater collectors, ponds or mini lakes provide for a place for re-creation and

recharge of the spirit. Nothing soothes nerves and spirits-- frayed and frazzled by modern-day living – than the sight and company of water.

• Rainwater collectors provide restorative economic activities to unemployed. The economic activity will not only restore the supply of the second most important life-element – water – it will also restore the connection between man and Nature.

•  •  • The underground water well (the ‘aquifer’) is like a bank account. If we

constantly withdraw from it but do not replenish it, what happens? The deposit ‘dries up’. In the case of water, the drying up is quite literal.

• SUPREME COURT OF THE PHILIPPINES• REPUBLIC OF THE PHILIPPINES• MANILA •  •  •  • The Global Legal Action vs. Climate

Change,• A citizens’ group herein represented by

private citizens • ANTONIO OPOSA, JR., ANTONIO MARABE, • CEASAR MORANDARTE, ___ CLEMENTE, ____,

VOLTAIRE ALFEREZ, • ______, ANNA R. OPOSA, KAREN JIMENO,

LINDA JIMENO, JANNET CRUZ-REGALADO, BERNICE C. MENDOZA, CLAIRE DEMAISIP,

•  •  •

Petitioners,• Special Civil Action No.______• For: MANDAMUS to compel the• - versus - construction of Rainwater

Collectors pursuant to Rep. Act.• Nos. 6716 and 7160• THE PHILIPPINE GOVERNMENT,

particularly• THE OFFICE OF THE PRESIDENT, now

occupied by • the Chief Executive Gloria Macapagal-

Arroyo, • herein represented by EXECUTIVE

SECRETARY • LEANDRO R. MENDOZA,•  

• THE DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC WORKS AND • HIGHWAYS, represented by THE HON. SECRETARY VICTOR A. DOMINGO,•  •  • DEPARTMENT OF INTERIOR AND LOCAL • GOVERNMENT, represented by THE HON. SECRETARY RONALDO V. PUNO, •  • THE UNION OF LOCAL AUTHORITIES OF THE • PHILIPPINES (ULAP), REPRESENTED BY ITS INCUMBENT PRESIDENT THE HON. MAYOR BENJAMIN C. ABALOS,

JR., •  • ALL MEMBERS OF THE LEAGUE OF CITIES OF THE PHILIPPINES (LCP) Philippines, represented by its President

The Honorable Benjamin C. Abalos, Jr., •  • ALL MEMBERS OF THE LEAGUE OF MUNICIPALITIES OF THE PHILIPPINES (LMP), represented by its President

The Honorable Ramon N. Guico, Jr.,•  • ALL MEMBERS OF THE LIGA NG MGA BARANGAY SA PILIPINAS • Pilipinas, represented by its incumbent President, the Honorable Ricojudge Janvier M. Echiverri,•  • ALL MEMBERS OF THE LEAGUE OF PROVINCES OF THE PHILIPPINES (LPP) • represented by its President, The Honorable Governor Loreto Leo S. Ocampos, •  • AS NECESSARY PARTIES:•  • The DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENT AND NATURAL RESOURCES (DENR) represented by THE HON.

SECRETARY HORACIO RAMOS, •  • THE CLIMATE CHANGE COMMISSION, represented by THE HONORABLE HEHERSON T. ALVAREZ, • Respondents.•  

MANILA, Philippines - The Supreme Court (SC) has ordered the government to answer a petition of a group of environmentalists seeking the creation of rainwater collectors in the country. SC spokesman Midas Marquez said the national government agencies led by Malacañang, the Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH) and the Department of the Interior and Local Government representing the 80 provinces, 150 cities, 1,400 towns and 42,000 barangays were given 10 days to comment on the petition filed by the group. SC allowed the petition of the Global Legal Action on Climate Change calling on the national government to come up with a more effective nationwide flood control project by implementing a 1989 law for rainwater collectors in all barangays. 

School of the SEAs (Inaugurate -April 22, 2010)

Sailing School of the SEAs (Launch April 22, 2010)

Operation Daybreak – a massive and extensive Air-Land-and Sea Operation vs illegal fishing in the Visayan Sea

 TEAM COMPOSITION: Educator Marine biologists/Scuba diversCommunity organizerLaw enforcement officer/s (pref also divers )Crew (at least 2).Lawyers on board and on call 

Protocol:

1.Organize the Youth, Schools, Local Governments down to Bgy level.2.Educational activities: Film Showing – Sangtwaryo3.Underwater viewing of localities (result of our preliminary UW survey4.Social Mobilization – LGUs, formal and informal Leaders, Youth5.Logistics 6.Ordinance Drafting and Adoption7.Buoy-laying of MPA8.Departure

36 SITES36 SITES

3 SITES3 SITES

16 SITES16 SITES 18 SITES18 SITES

Control Marine Resources Criminality

Plan to use the Law to spark a revolution (?)

Turn-around of the mindset

From wasteful use to wise and sustainable use

Convert awareness into action Brushing teeth – use a glass of water

instead of letting the water run. Turn off lights when not needed. Do not

put TV on Stand-By (70% of the electricity consumed)-1000 MW (1 GW) In the US

Shut off leaking water, report water leakages

Use lower watt lights. Segregate your wastes: Paper and Plastics

in one box (sell later), ‘wet’ waste (food wastes, leaves, organic material – put in a compost

More important … you teach by example

Repairing the damage done

Eco-tourism Restoring

Soils, etc. Putting up

MPAs

When an ordinary man gains knowledge, he becomes a sage (a wise man)

When a sage gains wisdom, he becomes …. an ordinary man

When a simple man makes money, he becomes rich man

When a rich man gains the wealth of wisdom, he becomes a simple man

WE ALL HAVE A ROLE – THE WE ALL HAVE A ROLE – THE POWER OF ONE!POWER OF ONE!

Mosquito-Stopping in a highway:

FEW ELITE LEADERS

INTEREST GROUPS

VOTING POPULATIONTHE FILIPINO MASSES

- No significant influence over important decisions especially on those critical to the Environment

1. Educate and Empower2. Enable to exercise power to effect real positive change beginning within each of us

Our VISION: A REVOLUTION – Revolution defined: a TURN AROUND.

NOT just that: Turn it Upside Down!

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Those who have less in wheels must have more in road

Preferential policy for collective and non-pollutive locomotion systems (trams, trains, rail-bus, wide pedestrian lanes, wide bike lanes

Plan to use the Law to spark a revolution (?)

Turn-around of the mindset

From wasteful use to wise and sustainable use

THANK YOU: DENSO-DOLE-THANK YOU: DENSO-DOLE-Green Working EnvironmentGreen Working Environmentyou, share with you the new you, share with you the new wave of economics. Catch it, or wave of economics. Catch it, or drown. drown. Ordinary citizens, YOUTH … 20 yrs ago Ordinary citizens, YOUTH … 20 yrs ago (right to speak and take action. Now … it is (right to speak and take action. Now … it is up to you to take action.)up to you to take action.)The time for talk is over, it is time for actionThe time for talk is over, it is time for actionA GREAT MOVEMENT MAY BE BORN IN THE A GREAT MOVEMENT MAY BE BORN IN THE MINDS OF THE FEW, BUT IT MUST BE MINDS OF THE FEW, BUT IT MUST BE SPOKEN BY THE MOUTHS OF MANY, AND SPOKEN BY THE MOUTHS OF MANY, AND CARRIED ON THE SHOULDERS OF ALLCARRIED ON THE SHOULDERS OF ALL

What light through yonder window breaks?

oft-quoted

Failure Failure IS NOT IS NOT AN AN OPTIONOPTION

Story of a rich man

DURING OUR WATCH

Let it be said that in our time, And during our watch, We did our share,