Pala-isip

I found this article on the ASEAN Community Facebook page . Great place to get info about ASEAN. 'Philippines will phase-out 3.5 Million Tricycles to save EARTH & $5 Billion USD imported Gas yearly' Reported in the Environmental Protection Online, Philippine government will replace the Pedi-cab or the tricycles-taxis with Electronic Trikes. The Philippines will be introducing electronic tricycle taxis to replace its petrol-fuelled models, which could cut carbon dioxide emissions by a quarter of million tons. The Asian Development Bank (ADB) will provide $300 million and The Philippines government will provide an additional $99 million to the project. Tricycle taxis are one of the Philippines' most widely used forms of transport for travelling short distances, but they are also responsible for more than two-thirds of air pollution. The ADB estimates that there are 200,000 tricycles in the Manila metropolitan region alone, and about 3.5 million in the entire ...

Saw this on Facebook. I felt like sharing it. Checking out at the supermarket recently, the young cashier suggested I should bring my own bags because plastic bags weren't good for the environment. I apologised and explained, "We didn't have this green thing back in my earlier days." The cashier responded, "That's our problem today. Your generation did not care enough to save our environment for future generations." She was right about one thing--our generation didn't have the green thing in "Our" day. So what did we have back then? After some reflection and soul-searching on "Our" day here's what I remembered we did have... Back then, we returned milk bottles, pop bottles and beer bottles to the store. The store sent them back to the plant to be washed and sterilized and refilled, so it could use the same bottles repeatedly. So they really were recycled. But we didn't have the green thing back in our day. We wal...

This is what we should do in the Philippines.

The hardest part about e-recycling a laptop is separating their components. Plastic parts has to be separated with the metals and electronics and each laptop requires a different set of tools to disassemble. These Stanford students designed a laptop that completely disassembles in less than two minutes without tools.

I find it depressing that countries like Columbia, Rio de Janeiro and Brazil comes up with new innovations almost every year that makes it better for their citizens to live in their cities such as having a better environment and alternative energy resources. While these countries move forward, the Philippines seems to be moving backward in innovation and environment. So when is the Philippines ever going to have someone who is forward looking enough to do something like this?