The municipal government of Boljoon has expanded the areas affected by the landslide in Barangay Lower Becerril to three sitios and required all of its residents to abandon these places as it is no longer safe for…
PLANT seeds of ideas and inspiration. This was the challenge of environmental lawyer Antonio Oposa to the students from the different schools during a forum titled “The time for talk is over: Edible landscapes and Road Sharing”…
At least 50 scavengers of Inayawan Sanitary Landfill were blocked from entering the Cebu City hall building to join their leaders in giving copies of their petition against the proposed construction of a waste incinerator at the…
The first week of May started with the sad news of Environment Secretary Gina Lopez being rejected by the Commission on Appointments (CA) in Congress. Many Filipinos were disappointed by the CA’s decision to reject Lopez…
Trash to treasure” may be a cliché, but what it signifies is really what is direly needed today. For 20-year-old Fine Arts student Marriel Colaljo a native of Naga City, Cebu, her advocacy of saving the earth…
She hasn’t been confirmed yet, but nearly one year into her tenure, Environment Secretary Gina Lopez has been butting heads with government officials and officials of mining firms, most of which she suspended in her belief that…
THE development done by ARN Builders on a private lot in Sitio Kainsikan, Barangay Binaliw was deemed illegal by the Department of Environment and Natural Resources-Environment Management Bureau in Central Visayas (DENR-EMB 7). Cebu City Councilor Joel…
AS Metro Cebu residents switched off their lights to join the global observance of Earth Hour yesterday, Cebu Archbishop Jose Palma called on the public to do their share to protect and preserve the environment. Speaking to…
In the likelihood that she is rejected by the Commission on Appointments (CA), Environment Secretary Gina Lopez’s exit is more a loss to President Duterte’s administration than to herself. In fact, if what she is championing for…
It was quite disheartening to know of the passage by the House of Representatives of the bill restoring death penalty in the country. Only one representative from Cebu, Raul del Mar of the first district, was among…
A HOMEOWNERS association in Compostela town, northern Cebu voiced concern over the ongoing construction of a cold storage facility near their area, saying it had resulted in floods in their subdivision. “The developer raised the level of…
There is something to be said about community vigilance being key to preserving the environment as seen in two separate cases in the cities of Mandaue and Cebu recently. In Mandaue City, residents living near a private…
