Power (less) lifestyle: How to keep electric bills low
2010-07-18 - COLLEAGUES AND FRIENDS are surprised to learn that my family of five pays less than P2,000 a month for electricity.

Most effective method to fight climate change
2010-07-07 - FORMER US VICE PRESIDENT AL GORE, the guru of global warming and climate change, has come and gone. The Kyoto Protocol and the Copenhagen Summit, too, have long adjourned. Everyone, meanwhile, is agreed that the planet Earth is in grave danger from nature’s wrath caused by greenhouse gases. Yet, no one has proposed a doable solution on how to combat this scourge.

A hitchhiker's guide to a warming earth
2010-06-17 - So, all this talk about global climate change getting you confused? Here’s a basic guide to the facts.

Soup or fried?
2010-06-03 - The other day I saw on the news that temperatures in some areas in Pakistan reached 52 degrees Celsius. When Manila temperature reached 38 degrees last week, it already was unbearable and I found myself doing something uncommon in our public life — listening and talking about the weather with strangers in stores and elevators.

Coping with climate change, calamities
2010-03-24 - MANILA, Philippines—Stronger and more frequent typhoons are expected to hit the Philippines in the years to come. Scientists say that drought and rising sea levels will also affect the country due to global warming caused by greenhouse gas emissions from human activities. The devastation wrought by Tropical Storm “Ondoy” in Metro Manila and nearby areas, and the damage caused by Typhoon “Pepeng” in northern Luzon last year saw how ill-prepared the government was in dealing with massive flooding and landslides.

Rice farmers adapt to climate
2010-03-24 - THE EXTREME HEAT IS getting into my nerves.

Global Warming, Forecasts and Resolutions
2010-01-08 - THE START of the year always brings about a spate of forecast- and resolution-making. At the forefront of the world issues today is the phenomenon called Global Warming.

Global Editorial on Climate Change
2009-12-17 - MANILA, Philippines—Last week, one day before the Copenhagen summit (Dec. 7-18) on climate change opened, 56 major newspapers in 45 countries spoke with one voice. They came out with a common global editorial written in 20 languages on climate change.

Seven Answers to Climate Contrarian Nonsense
2009-11-30 - On November 18, with the United Nations Global Warming Conference in Copenhagen fast approaching, U.S. Senator James R. Inhofe (R-Okla.) took the floor of the Senate and proclaimed 2009 to be "The Year of the Skeptic." Had the senator's speech marked a new commitment to dispassionate, rational inquiry, a respect for scientific thought and a well-grounded doubt in ghosts, astrology, creationism and homeopathy, it might have been cause for cheer. But Inhofe had a more narrow definition of skeptic in mind: he meant "standing up and exposing the science, the costs and the hysteria behind global warming alarmism."

Wetlands Mitigate Climate Change
2009-07-23 - The time to conserve and protect marshes, swamps, mangroves and other wetlands is now. Wetlands contains plants and animals adapted to aquatic and wet habitats. Some species found in wetlands are endemic to these ecosystems and are valuable in their own right.

Near Tipping Point
2009-07-14 - Rice production in the Philippines could fall by 50 to 70 percent by 2020 as yields drop due to the effects of climate change, the advocacy group Oxfam International said in a report last week. Agricultural yields are forecast to drop about 10 percent for every 1-degree centigrade rise in temperatures in countries like the Philippines.

Global Warming Worse in Southeast Asia
2009-07-07 - AN Asian Development Bank study published last April reveals that global warming is worse in Southeast Asia than the rest of the world and will have a devastating economic impact on the region. Southeast Asia contributes 12 percent of total carbon emissions.

Race is on to create a new world of energy
2009-06-28 - MANILA, Philippines - We stand at the early dawn of a new energy future. It will be powered by alternative energy and cleaner fossil fuels.

The World’s Clean Energy Revolution
2009-06-23 - Economists and analysts are agreed that when the world economy rebounds, the price of oil would also rise.

Unity Essential in Fight vs. Climate Disasters
2009-05-22 - There is no clearer sign of climate change as it impinges on us than our abbreviated summer this year with two powerful typhoons wreaking havoc in the first half of May, a rainy Holy Week and unseasonable cool weather intruding into summer temperatures. The occasional rains are welcome in summer and so with the cooler temperatures that come in their wake, but torrential rains and accompanying winds causing floods, landslides, car accidents and boat disasters are less than welcome.

Engineers’ Role in Combating Climate Change
2009-05-12 - Being an academician, I was happy to have been invited to speak on one of my areas of interest, climate change, during the First Engineering Summit that was held at the SMX Convention (Mall of Asia Complex) early this year. The said summit, which was attended by 1000 participants, was organized by the Philippine Technological Council, the umbrella organization of the 12 engineering associations recognized by the Professional Regulatory Commission.

Climate Change in Our Backyard
2009-05-05 - While the happy Pacquiao fans were watching the fight (I do not like gory scenes), I was in solitude and grief-stricken. Discovering that the “mother” sampaguita plant in my “wildlife garden” is gone – and not because of natural causes – brought pangs of guilt. I have not been in the garden for sometime. Going in and out of Cebu for environmental governance activities unfortunately has its costs. This was one of them.

Sudden Summer Showers
2009-05-04 - SUMMER is here. Then why is it raining hard in April?

Green Stimulus
2009-04-28 - Hundreds of islands in Indonesia and the Philippines, large swaths of Vietnam’s Mekong Delta and great portions of Thailand and Singapore’s sovereign territory are all under imminent threat. Why, then, the deafening silence? Why no call for urgent action? Perhaps it is because the foe is not a sovereign state, but climate change.

Confronting Climate Change from Below
2009-04-23 - The First National Grassroots Conference on Climate Change was successfully held on April 20 to 21, 2009 at the Balay Kalinaw, UP Diliman. The conference with its theme “Confronting Climate Change: Unity of Grassroots Organizations and Advocates for Action and Solidarity” was organized by the Philippine Climate Watch Alliance (PCWA), a broad multi-sectoral alliance formed to address the impacts of global warming. The objectives of the conference are to educate the basic sectors on the issue of climate change and come up with recommendations and plan of actions on how to mitigate and adapt to the effects of global warming at the community level.