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WORLD ENVIRONMENT DAY -- Philippines PHILIPPINES: Basics & Specifics; Mandate & History; 2009 Message BATANGAS CITY (Nat'l Site 2009); Other sites; WED-Philippines
WED-Phils. 2009 National Site
WED-Phils. 2009 Other Sites Life Release Ceremony on 6th June 6, 8 a.m. at Manila Bay where participants will be releasing hundreds of birds and fishes fashioned in the Tibetan ceremonial way. Donations are welcome for the purchase of more fishes and birds (endemic species will be only used to ensure that animals survive in the wild and to preserve the ecological balance). (click here.) In observance of World Environment Day, officers and personnel of this organization will plant 1,000 mahogany trees and will conduct a shoreline cleanup drive along the base premises. For information, please contact: Ronald Callanta 15th Strike Wing, PAF Sangley Point, Cavite City, Philippines June 5, 2009, 6-7:30 pm, at the AANI organic products area, QC Memorial Circle (near Philcoa gate): "HANDSHAKES AND HUGS for "Earth Synergy," a solemn and energetic multinationality ceremony. (For details about this ceremony, its poem/prayer and its history, please click here.)
"We proudly announce that the 3rd Manila Foods and Beverages Expo (MAFBEX) is slated on June 17-21, 2009 occupying the entire World Trade Center Metro Manila. We will certainly outdo ourselves once again to be the best show in the food industry. As a testament to the achievement of MAFBEX International Shows, with the Philippines as host country this year, the Hotel & Restaurant Association of the Philippines (HRAP) has selected MAFBEX as the venue of the 5th ASEAN Bartenders Championship, featuring professional contenders from all over the region vying for the title. On the academic side, College of Saint Benilde will hold a series of competitions with a theme "SAFARI" for the World Environment Day awareness among students. Furthermore, professional chefs will demonstrate preparation of potpourri of international cuisine. Indeed, this will result in an interesting fanciful mix of professionals and amateurs." For more information, please contact: Matt Uy, Worldbex Services International, 488 Boni Ave cor. San Joaquin St., Mandaluyong, Philippines Tel:+ 63 90 6344 4243; Fax: +63 25 332026
Title of Event: Dance for LIFE!
Type of Event: Club Party Event Objective: Raise Awareness on
Environment Protection by Showing Audio Visual Presentation in Tune with
Electro-House and Trance Music. Beneficiaries: Team Gratitude -Aetas
displaced in the Island of Boracay and Donate portion of Funds to UNEP
chose.
WED-Philippines Message for 2009
Strengthen and Synergize the Local Environmental Movements! IN HIS MESSAGE for this year’s World Environment Day, United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon underscored the power of billions of individual people all doing their bit for a greener and cleaner development. In the Philippines, this translates into a concerted teamwork of a hundred million Filipinos being turned into active stakeholders in effective environmental conservation, not a mere million activists and functionaries doing the caring for the environment, being applauded by the 99 million other Filipinos or, worse, being ignored or, much worse, even counteracted by the latter. For this reason, the World Environment Day-Philippines (WED-Phils.) network strengthens itself in two interrelated but distinct ways. As it keeps growing through the years and making significant strides this year, WED-Philippines takes a direct role in pushing for grassroots organizing for environmentalism, with home- and barangay-based formations in the youth sector and among their parents. And strengthens as well the interlinkages among the green associations among those millions of people right , in the most local of all localities in their own homes and villages. Strides are about to be made by the WED-Phils network which would in all probability be birthing this week the Green Families and Communities Network (GFCN). Well beyond the annual highpoints in the work of WED-Phils., the GFCN will be more determined and capable to perform the two components embraced in the single banner call that we raised a few years ago: Synergize the Local Environmental Movements! Surely we cannot even begin to think of synergizing local movements if they have no energy in themselves to begin with, thus the locality-focused environment formation organizing; and to keep such synergy locally-grounded and vibrant nationwide, effective mechanisms of inter-locality cooperation do have to be laid out and refined. One such mechanism for integrating the dynamics of inter-locality partnerships for the environment is a new network for green entrepreneurship – combining environment conservation with enhanced productivity and robust enterprise, scheduled to start this month. Another, started a couple of years earlier, has been the integration of three basic advocacies on the agenda of concern and action for each family and each community – the advocacy of safe food, healthy environment, and sustainable economy. And issue-specific coordinative formations (on mining, on ecological waste, on GMOs, etc.) have been with us for years, doing very meritorious work. In such necessary proliferation of overlapping but distinctly-focused formations, our attitude and our aptitude for working well in healthy teaming-up are crucially vital, As individuals among our people go about their respective focuses of attention according to their varying circumstances, capabilities and choices, division of labor shall only be allowed as lines of delineation of their respective priorities. These should not erect walls of division, walls of narrow overspecialization, walls of competition. Let us all keep the long view to combat impatience and disorientations, the coming months being a period of electoral campaign and exercise. Let us help educate the people in gradually gaining green political power mainly on the basis of principle and platform, and at the scope of localities and also, wherever really possible, on other scopes of governance. Most of all, to combat all residues of narrow-mindedness in all our efforts from the scope of the household to that of the nation itself, let us keep in mind this combination of two thematic calls, the first one coming from the WED's international this year and the second one being a refinement of our earlier call: “Your Planet Needs You!”; “Strengthen and Synergize the Local Environment Movements!” In the context of all our environmental problems big and small, we can ill afford to do any less.
Prof. Ed Aurelio C. Reyes Secretary-General WED-Philippines June 5, 2009
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