Directory of Recycling Companies

For those of you who are looking for Recycling Companies in the Philippines, here they are listed in printable image form.  Let's leave this world habitable for the future generation. Click here for Green Entrepreneurship: Are there enough takers?

International Coastal Clean-Up

TAKE NOTHING but waste from the ocean, 
LEAVE NOTHING but a positive impact to earth and society

Beer bottles, candy wrappers, soda cans, packs of chips & fruit juices with a dead dog traverse Manila Bay as dozens of WWF (World Wildlife Fund for nature) volunteers prepare to do coastal clean-up, in participation to the International Coastal Clean-up drive.

QTV video: Coastal Clean-up of Manila Bay

What used to be a teal water, Manila Bay, now has turned grey.  With highlights of pastel hues from the empty food packages disposed to this body of the water has become the silhouette of the popular sunset of Manila.

"The Manila Bay, a crescent of water curving inward from the island of Corregidor and the peninsula Bataan. For many centuries,vessels of all kinds from parts of the world have cast their anchors her, unloading exotic riches as well as traders, Muslim rajahs, Chinese pirates, British rulers, Spanish friars and conquistadores who were to found the city of Manila" [Images of Manila, Manuel Duldulao]

Kooperatiba Pinoy (Philippine Cooperative)

by KOOPERATIB.COM

Bayanihan was an assumed part of the way of life of our Filipino ancestors.  It was "the strong centripetal force, the sense of community, sense of collectivity of weal and woe."  Much like our ancestors who were riding those giant bancas called barangay, we could move forward and survive only working together, affirming and helping one another.  Let's relive the Bayanihan spirit!!

In My Dreams

 TRIBUTE TO A FRIEND

Dreaming about angels may mean you will hear of the health of friends, relatives...

Could be fanaticism but I have a certain degree of belief on the interpretation of dreams.  So one day when I looked up the meaning of my dream... You got a sense of what happened next?  I would squish at my sister calls.  Why?  She rarely calls me and if she does, it must be something urgent.

My sister, being the bearer of news of my mom's death, I would picture about my dad each time she calls.

This may be the prize i need to pay for living far away from home..

Transforming Metro Manila

BY Donald Goertzen

During a Power Point presentation in October, Environmental Attorney Antonio "Tony" Oposa remarked on how unfortunate it is that the model for urban living in the Philippines is Los Angeles, California and not Manhattan, New York. In Manhattan people can meet all there needs – shopping, entertainment, school, and work – by getting around on foot, bicycle, subway, and the occasional taxi. In Los Angeles two cars per family is the norm. It’s not a luxury; it’s a necessity.

That the U.S. would provide so many models for the Philippines is indeed unfortunate, but almost inevitable given the forced occupation by the U.S. for half a century and the fact that the Philippine elite is educated in the U.S. Aside from Los Angeles as the model for urban transportation, we also have homes with windows so small – in a tropical climate – that aircon becomes a necessity. And then there’s our U.S.-trained police and military...

I do take issue with how a lot of things are done here in the Philippines, but as an American citizen I also fault my own nation and culture for foisting itself and its way of doing things on so much of the rest of the world.