Wildlife rescue and retrieval hotlines
HOW MANY people know that the Biodiversity Management Bureau (BMB) actually has a hotline for wildlife rescue and retrieval?
It would be good for everyone...
Unresponsive government agencies
BEFORE the internet and mobile phones came along, we could only contact the government agencies using landlines.
The problem with using landlines is that almost...
The politics of recycling
I AM told that one of our local billionaires is earning more millions by simply collecting the recyclables from their numerous shopping malls all...
The growing organic food movement
I DO NOT know how they are doing it in the United States, but over there, it is the US Department of Agriculture (USDA)...
Let’s revive our mangrove forests
WHILE there are many reasons why we should revive our mangrove forests, there is only one reason why we are not doing it, and...
Are power companies ignoring the laws?
TO MY SURPRISE, I received a formal reply from the Department of Energy (DOE) in response to my column about requiring power companies to...
Let’s build a prosumer economy
A PROSUMER economy is an economy wherein the producers of goods and services are also the consumers of these goods and services.
In other words,...
Local wildlife protection
IT COULD be argued that many of our local government units (LGUs) could barely take care of their human populations, such that they may...
Indigent versus needy
WHEN I was working as a Director of the Philippine Charity Sweepstakes Office (PCSO), I realized that there is not much of a difference...
Jeepney transport cooperatives
WE HEAR so much about “jeepney consolidation” but I think that instead of focusing on that, we should focus on “cooperative formation”, and by...