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PH businesses relentlessly support embattled frontliners as pandemic rages on

Last April, during the early stages of the CoViD-19 outbreak in the country, TessDrive.com featured local companies who lent support to the country’s frontliners. Four months since, members of the business sector have continued their efforts, helping in any way they can. Here are some fine examples. SMC: 5,000 frontliners in Cebu each get P2M […]

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Knock on wood: New DOST research program hopes to strengthen PH’s tree plantations

The Philippines’ wood industries have been suffering from a shortage of raw materials for years, no thanks to decades of indiscriminate logging that have systematically reduced natural growth forest areas. To help shore up the country’s wood supply, the Department of Science and Technology’s Forest Products Research and Development Institute (DOST-FPRDI) started a research program

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On EVs and batteries—global motoring brands set sights and goals on an electric future

(Editor’s note: This article has been updated as of August 28, 2021) Ford Motor Company recently announced its own share of environmental goals. The blue oval brand plans to achieve carbon neutrality globally by 2050, while setting interim targets to more urgently address climate change challenges. Ford’s announcement came along with its 21st annual Sustainability

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Legarda: Facing a pandemic and climate change, humans are only as strong as their most vulnerable

In a statement issued by the Global Commission on Adaptation (GCA) in Manila last July 10, world leaders have been urged to integrate climate resilience in decisions at all levels of government, and calling on businesses, organizations, and communities to do the same with particular focus on resilience in infrastructure and financing. The statement, called

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PH’s largest corporation has shelled out over P13B to prep Pinoys for ‘new normal’

Since the CoViD-19 pandemic struck in March, San Miguel Corp, the country’s largest corporation, has led the private sector to help the Philippines deal with the crisis, spending over P13 billion on various efforts to help boost government response, provide life-saving medical equipment and supplies to front liners, and donate food and disinfectants to disadvantaged

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The Honda, GM, and Isuzu connection in the near-future of EVs, fuel cells

General Motors (GM) and Honda are teaming up to develop two all-new electric vehicles (EVs) for Honda. These EVs will be based on GM’s highly flexible global EV platform powered by the proprietary Ultium batteries. In the collaboration, Honda will exclusively design the exteriors and interior of these new EVs. Also, the platform will be

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Next CoViD-19 hotspots may be evacuation centers this storm season; disaster management council must act now, PH solon urges

With the Philippines now well into the most active period for typhoons, a senior member of Congress wants the National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Council (NDRRMC) to produce a new template for emergency evacuation centers that would be resistant to CoViD-19. “We urge the NDRRMC, along with the CoViD-19 Inter-Agency Task Force, to set

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Youth urged to become ‘urban farmers’, grow food in small spaces

Last June 19, during the 5th episode of the online series “Stories for a Better Normal: Pandemic and Climate Pathways” on the topic “Growing Your Own Food Part 2”, House Deputy Speaker and Antique Representative Loren Legarda featured urban farming and home gardening tips and advice from experts and advocates. She also urged schools and

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Radio and internet set to become the main platforms in ‘new normal’ education

School’s definitely out until a vaccine for the novel Coronavirus becomes readily available, so declared Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte during one of his late-night briefings to the nation a few weeks ago. For the country’s science and technology department, however, that doesn’t mean the learning should stop. Before the CoViD-19 outbreak forced the Philippine government

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