Green Journal

My heart seems to skip a beat. My lungs seemed to stop taking in air while I was reading this article. It seems like a scene from a telenovela but what gave this lump in my throat is the stark reality that is before me. Palpable reality. Things that you read in the paper or hear in 24 oras evening news now seem to pale in comparison to the cold reality when you actually have met these people and your feet have touched their island. ----------------- WHEN GOVERNANCE FAILS A Murder on Sibuyan Island By Jose Ma. Lorenzo Tan Vice-Chairman, WWF Philippines On October 2, at 10am in the morning, a vehicle carrying personnel of Altai Mining Corporation, approached a group of approximately 150 Sibuyanon rallyists protesting against mining activities on the island. Heated words were exchanged. The vehicle driver drew his gun. A shot rang out. The vehicle's engine revved, dragging a man with it, then swerved out of control. A second shot rang out. Armin Marin, municipal ...

"It’s true, most of the living things on the planet are going to take a mean beating if things continue to warm up as every credible scientist on earth seems to believe, but the planet itself will be perfectly fine…it will still be here long after we are gone. It’s the humans and all the animals that might not make it..." read more

Environment Groups grade senate bets from green to grey Manila , 20 April 2007. The Greenpeace, EcoWaste Coalition and Kaisampalad today announced the results of their 2007 Green Electoral Initiative (GEI) in a press conference in Quezon City. The GEI, launched last March 5, assessed the greennessof senatorial aspirants based on their stance and track record on key environmental issues. Topping the survey was Genuine Opposition (GO) candidate and political neophyte Sonia Roco, followed by Loren Legarda, Koko Pimentel, Manny Villar, and Gringo Honasan. Among the top five greenest senate bets, two are political newcomers (Roco and Pimintel), and three (Legarda, Villar, and Honasan) are veteran lawmakers with proven track records on environmental issues. With the exception of Honasan (Independent) , the rest of the green circle come from the main opposition party. The others who answered the survey were (in alphabetical order): Edgardo Angara (GO), Martin Bautista (An...

A report by the Union of Concerned Scientists documents how one oil company funded organizations of climate change skeptics to propagate confusion and delay public acceptance and action of the realities of climate change. "ExxonMobil has manufactured uncertainty about the human causes of global warming just as tobacco companies denied their product caused lung cancer," said Alden Meyer, the Union of Concerned Scientists' Director of Strategy & Policy. "A modest but effective investment has allowed the oil giant to fuel doubt about global warming to delay government action just as Big Tobacco did for over 40 years." The full report can be read from the UCS website. Response from ExxonMobil.