Environmentalism
Payatas, Metro Manila's rubbish dump
Posted August 9th, 2008 by anthony
Ivar Berglin of VBS.TV covers Payatas, Metro Manila's only rubbish dump. Although this short documentary focuses on the dump, it does make you think about issues like poverty, entrepreneurship, ecology, over-population and the Church's stance against contraception.
Petition against pesticide spraying in the Southern Philippines
Posted August 2nd, 2008 by anthonyNina at ForwardPilipinas.org sent this message about the effects of pesticide spraying in the Southern Philippines. We can support the ban by signing the online petition at www.dirtybananas.org.
Communities (around 40,000 people) living within banana plantations in Davao, Mindanao, Southern Philippines have been subjected to regular aerial spraying of pesticides for years, suffering from acute effects such as skin rashes, nausea and stomach cramps. In February, after an imaginative well-coordinated campaign, the City Government of Davao passed an ordinance to ban aerial spraying of pesticides.
