Resources for barangay development
IT HAS BEEN said that the barangay is
the smallest unit of local governance. My wish now is for it to be the richest
unit of...
More help for Filipino inventors
WHY NOT give tax breaks for inventors
who are trying to build prototypes with their limited budgets? It’s already
hard for them to raise the money...
Hope for coastal restoration
PROMOTING an advocacy is one thing; making money
for long term survival is another thing.
Volunteerism could power a movement for long
periods of time, but...
Hope for community transformation
THE PROBLEM of flood control is directly
connected with the problem of squatter relocation, and there is no way to go
around this problem except to...
Rethinking food security
SECURITY is a
relative term, and how it is understood would depend on who are the powers that
would define it.
Take the case of
food security...
Water supply chain
WATER is a commodity and its supply
chain should be treated as such.
Water is also food, and as such, it
should be treated as part...
Hope for national transformation
NOT EVERYTHING in life is measured by
money, and not all capital is financial.
Take social capital for instance. In
so many ways, it could be...
Wealth creation versus poverty reduction
MANY HAVE yet to understand the
difference between poverty alleviation and poverty reduction.
For many of us, this is just a matter
of semantics in the...
Indies
INDIE is a genre of rock music that
emerged in the 1980s. Nowadays, indie is better known as a genre of cinematic
films that are independently...
Zero poverty zones
MORE than one hundred years after the
birth of our Republic, we are still at the stage of trying to eradicate
corruption. The previous Aquino administration...