In our column Eleventh Hour this week, we wrote about Bawal Plastikan, a crowdsourcing initiative that aims to create an interactive visual map that will provide users with information on the best practices and approaches that communities are doing against plastic pollution.
The sheer number of local ordinances on single-use plastics means that there is a clamor for a national law that will comprehensively and effectively address them, advocates said during the second episode of Klima Ug Kalikupan, a joint webcast series by Cebu Technological University (CTU) and The Climate Reality Project Philippines.
We must keep in mind that while recycling and upcycling are needed to manage existing plastic waste, the real solution is to stop the tap on the endless production of plastic. This was emphasized by Andrea Ong, Trisha Cruz, and Polly Javier of Climate’s Eight and Climate Reality Leader Dani Madriaga in our column Eleventh Hour this week.
In our column Eleventh Hour at the Manila Bulletin, Pinoy Climate Reality Leader Dave Albao wrote about “Wala Usik” economy, a movement to innovate sari-sari stores and other establishments to be free of single-use plastics.
Our Manila Bulletin column ‘Eleventh Hour’ this week puts the spotlight on DanTAOn (www.dantaon.org), an online platform that aims to humanize the impacts of disasters and move people and nations to action. The platform seeks to present—through essays, photos, videos, and other formats—the narratives of people directly affected by climate change, and to visualize climate impacts using geographic information system (GIS) maps of sea-level rise projections from Climate Central.
In our Manila Bulletin column Eleventh Hour this week, Pinoy Climate Reality Leader Danna Peña delved into how social media’s material-centric culture of consumerism is worsening plastic pollution and contributing to global warming. To stop feeding the current culture of overconsumption, Danna said there must be more green jobs, more sustainable policies, and a more even distribution of wealth.
