NGOs and companies to observe global coastal clean up campaign

More than 150 Accenture employees will join Hands On Manila volunteers in observance of  the International Coastal Clean-Up Day (ICCD) at the Manila Bay on September 20.

Meanwhile, Greenpeace, together with the provincial government of Laguna, will conduct its clean up campaign in the towns of Siniloan, Sta. Cruz and Calamba. 

The ICCD, traditionally celebrated on the third Saturday in September, is a specially designated day for volunteers all around the world to go onto beaches to remove accumulated debris and other garbage.  The clean up exercise not only removes garbage but also collects valuable data on the nature of the solid waste that has accumulated along the world’s coastlines.

For volunteer opportuntities, call Hands On Manila at 386-6521 and 473-7458.

With resource from National Environment and Planning Agency, Jamaica. 

The patriotism of Filipinos

By Jose Ma. Montelibano - Inquirer.net

Asia’s growth, though, is borne of its resiliency. It has precisely because of its experience of pain and inferiority that it has developed a capacity for taking hard punches, of being beaten, but of surviving through it all. The effect of that whole process of being conquered, colonized, exploited, and kept at the bottom of the cellar has been submission on the outside than resentment at the inside. China and India broke loose from historical imposition and beating the West in its own game. Even Russia that was almost begging from its Western counterparts just yesterday seems determined to regain its dominant status even in global economics.

Where, then, is the Filipino in all of this?

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