Making hollow blocks from crushed glass bottles
“FROM sand to sand” could be another version of “from dust to dust”.
No, I am not talking about life after death, but the parallelism...
Juvenile detention centers
IN THEORY, jails are for minor offenders with short sentences, and prisons are for major offenders with long sentences.
Jails are usually run by local...
Banning harmful insecticides and herbicides
IT IS VERY clear that the Environmental Management Bureau (EMB) under the Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) has direct authority over the...
Self-reliance in farm machines
MR. RAMON Uy, Sr. of Bacolod City believes that we Filipinos could become self-reliant in making and maintaining our own farm machineries and equipment,...
Gov’t assistance for composting projects
MR. RAMON Uy Sr. of Bacolod City told me that the government, through the Bureau of Soil and Water Management (BSWM), an agency under...
Recycling, composting and gardening
RECYCLING, composting and gardening are all parts of the same value chain that all communities should “operationalize” everywhere, all the time, and all over...
Lack of importer’s information in product packaging
PERHAPS not everyone of us would really care, but I know that there are many patriotic Filipinos who would really want to know the...
Let’s use our own native fabrics for our uniforms
WHY DID Mahatma Gandhi spin his own cotton fabrics?
The answer to that might appear to be shallow, but there are actually very deep reasons...
Grants and loans for Filipino inventors
CREATING new value added is the key to building a bigger and stronger economy.
Not unless we create our own new value added as a...
Government people inaccessible online
IT IS REALLY a sad reality that many government people from all branches are not accessible online, despite the billions of people that have...