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WWF-Philippines and UPS rally corporations into ‘greening up’ business operations

Posted on March 5, 2012 by Flow Galindez

Climate change is now considered the most serious and pervasive threat to humanity and nature. The calamities and extreme weather events in the recent months indicate that indeed, climate change is no longer an alien and intangible concept; it is an occurrence that hits close to home and impacts us directly. In these volatile times, [...]

New Business Risk Assessment to Prepare More RP Cities for Climate Impacts

Posted on February 22, 2012 by Flow Galindez

Set to begin in February 2012, the study builds on Business Risk Assessment and the Management of Climate Change Impacts - a warmly-received, publicly-downloadable study completed in October 2011 which assessed the vulnerability levels of an initial run of four cities – Baguio, Cebu, Iloilo and Davao. “Climate impacts are already known for many parts of thePhilippines,” [...]

Bid for Mother Earth with WWF’s Greener at 50 online auction

Posted on December 8, 2011 by Flow Galindez

In line with celebration of the 50th anniversary of World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) and 15 years of its Philippine office, they are opening their “Greener at 50” online auction to raise funds that will help them on their environmental education and conservation project. This project is in partnership with the eBbay Philippines where [...]

WWF and BDO Teach Kids to Link Climate Change with Biodiversity

Posted on November 19, 2011 by Flow Galindez

Remember how all of Jurassic Park’s dinosaurs were born female? Global warming may soon render the same fate for the world’s sea turtles – unless we act now. Sea turtles have been around for some 200 million years, when dinosaurs and pterosaurs still ruled the Earth. Seven species survive today, five of which can be [...]

HSBC’s Project ECO-Kids Teaches 20,000 Students about Climate Change

Posted on November 3, 2011 by Flow Galindez

Since 2008, HSBC and the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF-Philippines) have been visiting different Metro Manila schools to implement Project ECO-Kids, a climate change awareness campaign to inspire students into becoming environment-conscious kids. To ensure proper continuity, a workshop entitled ‘Your Climate, Your Future’ was implemented in 2009 to provide an opportunity for teachers [...]

WWF drive urges Pinoys to commit to one thing to address climate change

Posted on October 26, 2011 by Flow Galindez

Typhoon Ondoy gave Filipinos a deadly foretaste of what climate change can bring and the deadlier, floods and landslides that came in its wake simply confirmed that Mother Earth is warming up. Whether it’s the beginning of a new age that some people tend to believe or it’s a continuation of a climatic pattern that [...]

Help save Mother Earth – Talk to a WWF fundraiser now!

Posted on October 13, 2011 by Flow Galindez

In line with the 50th years of World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF), they turn the limelight to what we call the WWF fundraisers. They are those we often see in malls, underpass and walkways wearing the white panda shirts asking for a minute or two discuss on what we can do to save Mother [...]

Climate-Proofing Tomorrow’s Cities, Today

Posted on September 21, 2011 by Flow Galindez

On a hellish September week two years ago, millions of Filipinos were literally up to their necks in climate change. Typhoon Ondoy took the lives of 246 people but taught survivors and spectators alike a crucial lesson – that climate change is real, and that it does not choose its victims. “Climate change shall continue [...]

Let’s talk about the International Coastal Cleanup Day with Coca Cola

Posted on September 17, 2011 by Flow Galindez

In line with the International Coastal Cleanup (ICC) Day that happened in various locations in different countries including the Philippines. Coca Cola is one of the companies who stood up and conducted a coastal cleaning in Baranggay Tabing Ilog in Samal, Bataan. It was raining, the road was muddy and unfriendly but the volunteers and [...]

Newly upgraded WWF Research Vessel visits Sulu Sea

Posted on August 14, 2011 by Flow Galindez

Great explorers traverse the unknown in great ships: if Captain Nemo from 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea had his Nautilus, and Captain Solo of Star Wars fame had his beloved Millennium Falcon –then the Sulu Sea-based conservation researchers of the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF-Philippines) ride the high seas aboard the trusty M/Y Navorca. [...]