Banning windmills in the hills
MANY years ago, when I was still climbing mountains with the UP Mountaineers, I made two ascents up Mt. Banahaw — not as a...
Using bamboo as a sturdy building material
WE FILIPINOS have come a long way from thinking of bamboo merely as material for makeshift homes and temporary huts.
Bamboo used to be...
What is agroforestry?
AGROFORESTRY is one of those concepts that sounds technical at first — until you realize it’s actually just common sense.
It is the intentional integration...
Bamboo as a four-in-one solution
BAMBOO is one of those rare gifts of nature that seems to solve four problems at once—food, construction, flood control, and climate mitigation. And...
Provincial agricultural biosystems engineers should be required
IF WE’RE not serious about food security, then fine — let’s just let amateurs run agriculture. But if we are serious, then we must...
Why not use blockchain to integrate scholarship programs?, 2
OF COURSE, there are real obstacles:
* Technical Complexity & Cost – Building and maintaining a blockchain network is not easy or cheap. Many institutions...
Why not use blockchain to integrate scholarship programs?, 1
I STILL remember how I stumbled into two of my biggest scholarships: the National State Scholars (NSS) program and the American Field Service (AFS)...
Are we ready for wetlands renaturalization?, 2
THESE REWETTED wetlands also held on to more water (soil moisture rose 55 percent) and retained more nitrogen — improving water quality and nutrient...
Are we ready for wetlands renaturalization?, 1
JUST WHEN I was getting comfortable with the term “rewilding”, here comes another — “denaturalization”.
Both feel new in our conversation, but they are...
The real roots of our job mismatch problem, 2
THE TRAGEDY OF TRIFOCALIZATION
Perhaps the most structural issue that my former professor at the University of the Philippines, Dr. Clarita R. Carlos, raises is...