Latest News - Environment - Philippines

Manila Philippines – November 5th 2009 – Palingenesis Manufacturing Inc. announced it has successfully completed the acquisition of 35% of the outstanding stock in its subsidiary, Pathogenesis. Inc.

Manila Philippines – September 27th 2009 - Palingenesis Manufacturing Inc. is proud to announce the appointment of Mr David J. Baker as Director of Palingenesis Manufacturing Inc. and Global Licensing Consultant.

Farmers and members of the community residing in the Cambantoc watershed of the Mt. Makiling Forest Reserve participated in a training seminar conducted by the UPLB College of Forestry and Natural Resources last June 3-4 in Sta. Cruz, Laguna.

Besides coastline protectors, mangrove forests are one of the most promising carbon sequesters, having the highest carbon net productivity among all ecosystems.

The School of Environmental Science and Management (SESAM) has taken a proactive role in communicating environmental risks which abound in Mt. Makiling- a dormant volcano and source of landslides when Typhoon Milenyo struck Los Baños in 2006.

PHILGBC Leads the Major Stakeholders in the Building Industry in “TRANSFORMING THE MARKET”

Mandala Spa Boracay in the Philippines launches the TREEtment Project - the first of its kind in the spa industry. It is an environmental effort to replenish the planet's resources by planting a tree for every spa treatment purchased.

BIOTECH's Bioremediation Research Team based in UP Los Baños is currently conducting studies to rehabilitate several contaminated sites in the country. These include an abandoned mining site at Mogpog, Marinduque, and bodies of water in Bulacan.

PEMSEA has announced today that former Philippine President Fidel V. Ramos will deliver the opening keynote address during East Asian Seas (EAS) Congress 2009 to be held in Manila, Philippines on 23-27 November.

The East Asian Seas Region Ministerial Forum, to be held in Manila on 26-27 November 2009 as part of East Asian Seas (EAS) Congress 2009, will be addressing climate change adaptation through integrated coastal management.

Biotechnologists at UP Los Baños are hard at work putting the final touches to the prototype of a wastewater treatment system that uses bacteria.

There is a need to orient consumers about green products since some misconstrue going green and back to basics as reverting to crude methods. Green living means eliminating harmful wastes that continue to destroy our atmosphere and natural resources.

Atlas Copco Philippines’ Team Air Runners joined the “Condura Run 09: Skyway Run For The Whale Sharks”

Atlas Copco Philippines joins Earth Hour 2009 as part of their Caring Beyond Air advocacy program

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PEMSEA has announced the designation of Mr. Raphael P.M. Lotilla as the new Executive Director of the PEMSEA Resource Facility (PRF).

A newly established Gibraltar-based campaign group (NO2PB), is aiming to make Gibraltar a plastic bag-free town and is even launching a campaign to make the town the first ever plastic bag-free city within the Iberian Peninsula.

The link between biodiversity and climate change is not one-way: just as climate change alters the state of biodiversity, so can changes in biodiversity affect the world’s climate. This is the concern put into the limelight by this conference.