By Scott James - BlueLivingIdeas.com
There is a more than two decade old law in the Philippines requiring the construction of rainwater catchments around the country, but it is seldom enforced. In Cebu City, one of the largest metropolitan areas in the country currently dealing with extended dry weather caused by the El Niño effect, that is changing.
Lawyers and University students filed petitions with the Supreme Court to enforce the 1989 Rainwater Collector and Springs Development Law. Nestor Archival, Cebu City Councilor, responded with an appeal to residents to use whatever container they have and begin constructing rainwater catchments or digging ponds in their yards.
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The Jeepney magazine, the first street paper of its kind in developing Asia, is looking for kind corporate sponsors and establishments willing to host Jeepney’s vendors who earn primarily through the sale of the magazine and merchandize.
For arrangements, you can contact Reah Medenilla at ramedenilla@yahoo.com and/or 3944029.
Please read more of Reah’s message via Facebook… and be a fan in the process.
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Dr. James Martin, award-winning author and founder of global IT firm Headstrong, has pledged $50 million to The James Martin 21st Century School at the University of Oxford to fund projects aimed at resolving pressing global problems.
Headstrong has a deeply-entrenched presence in the Philippines through its Manila Global Delivery Center, which has successfully delivered more than 500 IT projects since 1987.
The scenario respects natural limits, decouples growth from fossil fuel use, and proposes an investment system in which costs are shared fairly under a global climate regime. It also means finally providing energy to the two billion people currently without reliable access to energy services.
Read the full article on Greenpeace Southeast Asia’s website.
Learn more about the Energy [R]evolution.
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Rachel Maddow features a segment entitled That Was Then, This Is Then on her show highlighting the utter similarities between techniques used in the recent Gulf Coast oil tragedy and one that happened in the same area 20 years ago. Only this time, the catastrophic level is 25 times greater.
It seems that the ignorance, incompetence and incapacity to handle this tragedy was deliberate in a sense that it had already happened two decades ago. Technology to handle cataptrophes of this nature remains stale.
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