By Agence France-Presse, Updated: 1/12/2010



World leaders should focus on reducing greenhouse gas emissions as much as possible over the next 40 years to avoid perilous warming conditions, researchers said Monday.

In the first study of its kind, analysts used a detailed energy system model to analyze the relationship between emissions levels in 2050 and chances of achieving end-of-century targets of two or three degrees Celsius (3.5 or 5.5 Fahrenheit) above the pre-industrial average.… Continue

By Katherine Adraneda (The Philippine Star) Updated January 04, 2010 12:00 AM

MANILA, Philippines - An organization of fishermen had accused Agriculture Secretary Arthur Yap of overpricing the purchase of ice-making machines, threatening to file a complaint of plunder today before the Office of the Ombudsman.

The Pambansang Lakas ng Kilusang Mamamalakaya ng Pilipinas (Pamalakaya) said Yap had overpriced the purchase of 98 ice-making machines by P2.3 million per unit.

Pamalakaya accused Yap of… Continue

By Donnabelle L. Gatdula (The Philippine Star) Updated January 04, 2010 12:00 AM

A subsidiary of EnerAsia Renewables Corp. of Canada, Constellation Energy is among the growing number of renewable energy companies who have set up shop in the Philippines following the signing of the Renewable Energy Act in late 2008. In October 2009, the company got contracts to explore wind power projects in Ilog, Tanjay and Pamplona.

MANILA, Philippines - Constellation Energy Corp. is eyeing seve… Continue

ABS-CBN - Wednesday, December 23

MANILA, Philippines - The Asian Development Bank (ADB) will extend a $120-million loan to KEPCO SPC Power Corp. (KSPC) for a plant that will provide essential power to central Visayas.

ADB said it will provide the 12-year loan to KSPC, a joint venture between Korea Electroc Power Corp. and SPC Power Corp., to build a 200-megawatt coal-fired power plant in Naga City, Cebu, on a property already being used by the Naga Power Plant Complex.

ADB said this is… Continue

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Build on what they have
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Not relief but release

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She’s a mystical forest,
She provides water to farm lands,
She purifies the air that we breathe,
She screens the pollution that we’ve created,
She gives awe to climbers who challenge themselves
But now she’s threatened by the greedy minds.
Minds who just want profit beyond our wildest dream,
She’s now racing against time from further harm and
She needs a helping hand to preserve herself.