WFTO prescribes 10 Principles that Fair Trade Organizations must follow in their day-today work and carries out monitoring to ensure these principles are upheld: Principle One: Creating Opportunities for Economically Disadvantaged Producers Poverty reduction through trade forms a key part of the organization’s aims. The organization supports marginalized small producers, whether these are independent family […]
Planting trees – Caring for Environment
September 9th, 2019 | Comments Off on Planting trees – Caring for Environment »The aeta leaders and members in the community of Sitio Quartel, Aglao, San Marcelino and the SETEM visitors from Spain did the mango tree planting on August 19,2019 in the farm lot of selected aeta farmers from the community. The planting was headed by Pastor Boy Mandig, one of the members in the organic mango […]
Climate change: Greenland’s ice faces melting ‘death sentence’
September 5th, 2019 | Comments Off on Climate change: Greenland’s ice faces melting ‘death sentence’ »Greenland’s massive ice sheet may have melted by a record amount this year, scientists have warned. During this year alone, it lost enough ice to raise the average global sea level by more than a millimetre. Researchers say they’re “astounded” by the acceleration in melting and fear for the future of cities on coasts around […]
After bronze and iron, welcome to the plastic age, say scientists
September 5th, 2019 | Comments Off on After bronze and iron, welcome to the plastic age, say scientists »Plastic pollution is being deposited into the fossil record, research has found, with contamination increasing exponentially since 1945. Scientists suggest the plastic layers could be used to mark the start of the Anthropocene, the proposed geological epoch in which human activities have come to dominate the planet. They say after the bronze and iron ages, the […]
La Mesa Dam Eco Park to be renamed after Gina Lopez
September 5th, 2019 | Comments Off on La Mesa Dam Eco Park to be renamed after Gina Lopez »Quezon City Councilor Winston “Winnie” T. Castelo has filed a resolution renaming La Mesa Dam Eco Park to Gina Lopez Eco Park in honor of the late environmentalist. In the resolution clauses, Castelo cites the deceased Lopez for being at the forefront of environmental protection. Lopez, a former Environment Secretary, died of cancer last August […]
