Materials recovery facilities
IT MAY sound like an unusual suggestion, but what if we pass a law that will require local government units (LGUs) to haul garbage...
Good feedback on sea ambulances
I HAVE received a lot of good feedback about my essay promoting sea ambulances. Among them is Dr. Bernardo Gochoco, a senior manager of...
New textiles from banana stalks
I ALWAYS get excited whenever I “discover” a new product that could be produced out of waste, in turn creating new sources for our...
What is a food poor person?
BY IKE SEÑERES
PARDON me if I make some mistakes in my analysis here, because I graduated from the University of the Philippines with a...
Numbering of plastic packaging
OUT OF the seven plastic categories, the first two, namely Polyethylene Terephthalate (PET) and High-Density Polyethylene (HDPE) are the easiest to recycle, and therefore...
We need sea ambulances
BY IKE SEÑERES
CONSIDERING the number of island barangays in our country, I have no doubt in my mind that we should already introduce a...
Fiber optic cables along the railways
WHEN I was in Japan many years ago as a guest of the Japanese government to observe their advanced Information and Communications Technologies (ICT),...
Radio Frequency Identification
I COULD not understand why the Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) systems are failing in our Metro Manila tollway systems. The RFID system is not...
Data mirroring for LGUs
DURING my term as Director General of the National Computer Center (NCC), our agency became one of the biggest providers of transactional software applications...
Online medical consultation
BY IKE SEÑERES
IT’S GOOD to notice that more and more private doctors are now going into the practice of online medical consultation, also known...