Tag: environment
A People’s Green New Deal? A look at PH labor
Hunyo 15, 2021
Dr. Max Ajl’s book A People’s Green New Deal presents socialist proposals on addressing climate change that are indeed doable and inspiring. In Chapter 5, he leaves us analytical notes on labor, planning and construction for an eco-socialist future, and industry and manufacturing, among others. These get us thinking about our own context in order to contribute to the operationalization of a people’s Green New Deal.
Big business plundering the environment
Abril 22, 2021
Gaining ground vs disaster vulnerability
Enero 3, 2021
No matter how bad things were last year, civic action kept our hopes high
Magat Dam aggravates mining, logging, land conversion impact
Nobyembre 19, 2020
Sources of Energy in the Philippines for 2018
Oktubre 19, 2020
ENERGY SUPPLY IN THE COUNTRY IS STILL PRIMARILY SOURCED FROM FOSSIL FUELS. Non-renewable oil and coal made up 61% of energy sources in 2018. The industry and electricity sectors relied heavily on coal, taking up 32% and 31.5% of 2018 energy consumption, respectively.
Climate justice is a social justice and human rights issue
Nobyembre 28, 2019
Protect the environment
Agosto 3, 2019
The programs and policies the Duterte administration is hyping do not seem to be delivering the promised economic development and improvement of the Filipino people’s situation. People Economics will improve things. Protect the Environment! #MalalangEkonomiya #MayMagagawa #PeopleEconomics
Earth Day 2017 | Four towns and an Apple: Mining and environmental plunder
Abril 22, 2017
By Glenis Balangue A day before Earth Day, technology giant Apple made a bold claim. Blamed time and again for its role in sustaining the highly destructive mining industry, Apple said it plans to stop using minerals and metals for its famed iPhones and Macs. In its 2017 Environmental Responsibility Report, Apple said that to […]