Category: Environment

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Typhoon Yolanda (Haiyan) aftermath: How are Filipinos coping?

November 10, 2013November 10, 2013 benign0 51 Comments

What might be the true full extent of the devastation wreaked by super-typhoon Haiyan (code-named “Yolanda”) has been revealed in recent reports from “a Red Cross” official who quoted horrific numbers that dwarf initial death toll estimates… “We estimate 1,000 people were killed in Tacloban and 200 in Samar province,” Gwendolyn Pang, secretary general of…

Civics, Environment, Society

Farming Kills More Trees In The Cordilleras

November 7, 2013 P. Farol 6 Comments

Some people can’t be bothered long enough to think while they’re on their ride on the latest environmental conservation bandwagon on social media. Given that most people on social media are in their late teens or early twenties, the demographic alone tells you that selling “critical thinking” to the YOLO crowd can have you face-desking…

Environment

Super-typhoon Haiyan (code name Yolanda) set to plow through central Philippines

November 7, 2013 benign0 23 Comments

Super-typhoon Haiyan (Philippine code-named “Yolanda”) continues to barrel towards the Philippines threatening to wreak havoc across southern Luzon, the Visayas, and northern Mindanao as it plows through the Philippines… Haiyan is expected to reach central Philippines as a super typhoon by Friday noon local time, packing winds of 233-249 kilometres per hour, according to Michael…

Development, Environment, Lifestyle

God does not work FOR us

October 17, 2013October 17, 2013 Ms. Mike Portes 33 Comments

Joining our Muslim “kababayans” reflecting at the eve of Eid ul-Adha was most relevant for me. If it was a test of faith for Ibrahim/Abraham to surrender a beloved son, whose birth came to him when he was more than 80 years old; For Filipinos, it’s been the most trying months for our country devasted…

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Culture, Environment, Government, Religion, Society

Magnitude 7.2 Cebu earthquake: Is Metro Manila prepared for the next one?

October 15, 2013October 15, 2013 benign0 31 Comments

Just when you think the Philippines can’t get any further “tests” from the “Almighty” on account of the appalling pork barrel thievery, chronic flooding, and yesterday’s hijacking of its capital city by a religious group, yet another Act of God hits. This time it is in the form of an earthquake devastating the Queen City…

Civics, Environment

The DAP is a product of PNoy’s flawed understanding of the government’s financial position in 2010

October 14, 2013 benign0 6 Comments

The thing with trying to pitch purported good intentions is that once the resources and the means to deliver those intentions have been tainted in the public eye, there is little hope for redemption. Malacañang, true to form always five steps behind when it comes to justifying its position on many matters of national consequence,…

Crime, Development, Environment, Government, Politics

Military Unrest Under The Shadow of DAP Bribery

October 4, 2013 P. Farol 48 Comments

Those two words and what they signify at this point is giving me the jitters. Because, if you add those two words to these: Thousands of people massing almost at EDSA and other public spaces condemning the corruption of the pork barrel system. Law experts and two senators saying that the Disbursement Acceleration Program (DAP)…

Crime, Development, Environment, Government, Politics

Project Save 182 Adrift in Ennui After SM Baguio Revises Its Expansion Plan

September 19, 2013September 19, 2013 P. Farol 74 Comments

The most recent word about SM Baguio City is that has revised its expansion plans and this will result in a lower number of pine trees affected. Apparently, just like the way they harked to Olivier Ochanine’s petition to save the Philamlife Theatre, SM seems to be showing that it is listening to and responding…

Development, Environment