GAWAD BAYANI NG KALIKASAN DISCUSSION SERIES
CEC-Phils together with the Gawad Bayani ng Kalikasan Awards Committee invites you GAWAD BAYANI NG KALIKASAN DISCUSSION SERIES Featuring the programs, works and advocacies of this year's awardees. The Gawad Bayani ng Kalikasan, an awards event recognizing ordinary individuals and organizations that have made a mark in countrywide efforts to defend our environment, lives, and rights. The project aims to establish a regular Philippine civil society organization (CSO) mechanism to recognize, promote, and build public awareness of contemporary “heroes/heroines of the environment,” nameless individuals and communities who have selflessly spearheaded environmental struggles and protection of basic rights. In doing so, the project hopes to promote environmental conservation, goodwill and love of country. For inquiries, call CEC-Phils at 02 9209099.
Talakayan sa Kubo: People's Response to Disasters and Climate Change
In light of the recent disasters brought about by global warming, this month's Talakayan sa Kubo aims to give a discussion on basic concepts and issues related to the people's capacity for disaster preparedness and management. CEC has invited a resource speaker who will share strategies of coping with disasters and discuss how this is aligned with environmental advocacy and science & technology for the people.
18 November 2009 (Wednesday), 5:00 – 6:00 PM Nicanor delos Santos Hall #26 Matulungin Street, Barangay Central, Diliman, Quezon City
Talakayan sa Kubo: Burning Issues on the Ilo-ilo Coal-Fired Power Plant
Climate change mitigation necessitates the cutting of carbon dioxide emissions. However, coal-fired power plants continue to be constructed in the Philippines due to various considerations. At CEC's monthly educational discussion on 28 October 2009, Kalikasan People's Network for the Environment gives an overview of projects currently underway while CEC staff present field visit observations and technical analysis on the status and possible impacts of the coal-fired power plant being constructed in Ilo-ilo in the Visayas region.
Talakayan sa Kubo: Tracing the Disasters: Ondoy, Pepeng, & Gloria
In the wake of Typhoons Ondoy and Pepeng, we study the factors that led to the disasters. CEC invites everyone to attend this educational lecture on how mismanagement and heavy rains exacerbated existing vulnerabilities of communities and social inequalities and resulted in massive death and destruction, on October 20, 5:00 to 6:00 p.m. at the CEC office.
Exhibits on Environmental Education & Asian Community-Based Climate Change Adaptation Technologies
All are invited to view two exhibits on environmental education and community-based climate change technologies from 29 September-1 October 2009 at the October 14 Memorial and from 2 October-4 October at the Wat Benchamabophit (Marble Temple) School in Bangkok, Thailand.
Training of Asian Grassroots Trainers on Climate Change
Call for Participation
29 September – 1 October 2009
Bangkok, Thailand
CEC-Phils invites leaders of Asian grassroots organizations and environmental education providers with experience in working with adult learners on the issue of climate change. This event will be held within a broader initiative of other Asian and international grassroots organizations and international networks, civil society organizations (CSOs) to bring to public and international attention grassroots issues in the international talks on Climate Change.
Asian Women's Quilt on Climate Change
Call for Participation
Quilts are cultural symbols of unity, creativity, and diversity. We invite everyone to contribute to the Asian Women's Quilt on Climate Change, a giant collaborative quilt on the calls of Asian grassroots communities affected by climate change.
This collective quilt will thread testimonies and sew together stories of Asian grassroots communities which are now calling for action on climate change and its impacts. The quilt will be unveiled on 2 October 2009, when various Asian grassroots, peoples, and civil society organizations will be convening in Bangkok, Thailand for the People's Action on Climate Change (PACC) an assembly that will present the voices and faces of the people most affected by the serious impacts of climate change – the grassroots sectors in Asia.
Kilos Kongreso para sa Kalikasan at Karapatan:
Support Actions for House Bill 5840 (Anti-SLAPP Act of 2009)
The Supreme
Court and various environmental stakeholders have recently called on
Congress to come up with legislation to provide the public with a clear
cut law on Strategic Lawsuits Against Public Participation (SLAPP).
In February
2009, House Bill (HB) 5840 (the
Anti-SLAPP Act of 2009) was filed in the Philippine House of Representatives by Reps. Satur Ocampo and Teodoro Casino,
aiming to prohibit the
filing of harassment cases against persons involved in “public-interest
advocacies”. CEC invites you to attend two activities it has organized this September in support of HB 5840.
Talakayan sa Kubo: Participatory Social Impact Assessment in Watershed Management
China boasts of a staggering 85,000 dams, or 46% of all such structures in the world. Clearly, hydropower is a key requirement for its economic development.Yet dams have led as well to the displacement of over fifteen million Chinese and incalculable damage to the environment. A leading figure in the debate on dams and their social impacts is Yu Xiaogang, 2006 Goldman Environmental Prize Awardee and 2009 Ramon Magsaysay Awardee. CEC invites everyone to a lecture-dialogue with Yu, who has assisted dam-affected communities in China to shape the development policies that affect their environment and lives.
Talakayan sa Kubo: On the Mankayan Land Subsidence
The Mankayan area is among some of the richest mineral districts in the Philippines. However, subsidence and surface disturbances have been continuously reported since mining began in the area in 1969. After major subsidence events have again occurred in June 2009, CEC was requested to undertake initial geotechnical investigations and sent two staff geologists to the site. CEC invites everyone to a discussion of its initial findings on 20 August 2009 (Thursday) at the CEC office in Quezon City, 5-7 p.m.
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