Klima Kabisayaan: Zeroing in on zero waste
Participating in the Zero Waste Academy Asia Pacific Cohort was a transformative experience that challenged Visayas Coordinator Joseph Pilapil’s understanding of waste management.
August 2, 2024
Participating in the Zero Waste Academy Asia Pacific Cohort was a transformative experience that challenged Visayas Coordinator Joseph Pilapil’s understanding of waste management.
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.
Pursuing zero waste strategies is still possible amid the COVID-19 pandemic, health and waste experts said during the 22nd episode of The Climate Reality Project Philippines’ Klimatotohanan entitled “Unmasking the COVID-19 Plastic Pollution: Why Zero Waste is Essential Towards a Green and Just Recovery.”
