Archive for the ‘Advocacy’ Category
Running for a cause is an advocacy that everyone should support and join and then spread the word and encourage others to do so. In this way, we can stay fit together, gain more friends and receive interesting freebies and mementos while helping someone or a group or an organization at the same time. Isn’t this great? Read full story »
Time for a Vunerable Population to Adapt to a Changed Environment – Illac Diaz
It’s time to MOVE on climate change and go beyond PETITIONS. We need to move to 90% local on the ground actions, 10% campaign ad registrations. Addressing climate change requires a mix of mitigation and adaptation. This requires a separation of urgency for more mitigation for industrialized countries and more adaptation for developing countries. The Philippines will not be a significant carbon emitter by a long shot, but as a country we are the top five in the world when it comes to property and human lives lost because we don’t have a plan “b” for when the impact of climate changes HIT us. The day ONDOY (Ketsana) put 80% of the capital city of Manila underwater must not be forgotten and marks the day where climate change became very real for all of us.
International World Water Day is held annually on 22 March as a means of focusing attention on the importance of freshwater and advocating for the sustainable management of freshwater resources. It aims to raise awareness about sustaining healthy ecosystems and human well-being through addressing the increasing water quality challenges in water management. Read full story »
On Earth Hour hundreds of millions of people, organizations, corporations and governments around the world will come together to make a bold statement about their concern for climate change by doing something quite simple—turning off their lights for one hour. Earth Hour sends a clear message that people care about this issue and want to turn the lights out on dirty air, dangerous dependency on foreign oil and costly climate change impacts, and make the switch to cleaner air, a strong economic future and a more secure nation. Read full story »
After the Premiere of We Are The World 25 For Haiti, may are asking who are included in the 2010 We Are The World 25 For Haiti Artist List? Read full story »
Efren Peñaflorida became very popular in the country, as well as, in the whole world due to the recently concluded CNN Heroes for 2009. Actually, he only became well-known due to the fact that an organization, the Club 8586, which sponsored his earlier education, nominated him to the 2009 CNN Heroes, where fortunately, Kuya Ef, as what he was fondly called by the children he teaches, won the CNN Hero of the Year (2009) Award. Read full story »
Tck Tck Tck! Our time is running out! That is the message that Tck Tck Tck is intended to signal.
Tck Tck Tck is an unprecedented global alliance of non-government organizations, trade unions, faith groups and people like you—all calling for an ambitious, fair and binding climate change agreement.
To raise awareness of the importance of this historic meeting—and spell out the kind of treaty the group needs to create—the Tck Tck Tck campaign is uniting the voices of millions across the globe. Our ultimate goal: a fair, ambitious and binding international agreement that reflects the latest science on climate change. Read full story »
We can’t deny that we have a hunger problem (not only in the Philippines but also in the whole World) and it is not going away.
This is the typical everyday life of most of the Filipinos. Read full story »