What you build is for the future, and Mother Nature will be its only permanent resident
The Singaporean government recently announced that it would raise its national climate target to become emission-free by 2050 as part of its Long-Term Low-Emissions Development Strategy (LEDS). The government also aims to reduce emissions to around 60 million tons of carbon dioxide equivalent (MtCO2e) in 2030 after peaking emissions earlier, as part of its revised …
Earlier this year, San Miguel Corp (SMC) partnered with church organization Nazarene Compassionate Ministries (NCM) for a mushroom farming and processing project that has become a new income source for 70 families in Bulakan, in the province of Bulacan. Through this project, relocatees—former residents of the site that is now being developed to become the …
Mushrooms new income source for 70 Bulacan families Read More »
In October 2021, the Cargo Owner for Zero Emission Vessels (coZEV) was launched. coZEV, facilitated by the Aspen Institute, has been seen as a platform for multinational companies to come together to initiate high-impact programs accelerating the maritime industry’s transition to emissions free shipping. And now, coZEV has begun demonstrating the feasibility of scalable zero-emission …
When climate change is making our weather systems go bananas, how do we best adapt our structures to it? A researcher from the DOST-Forest Products Research and Development Institute (DOST-FPRDI) may just have peeled off the answer. According to the Institute’s Engineer Gilberto N. Sapin, waste banana fruit stalks (also called peduncles) can be used …
Banana fruit stalk promising material for composite boards Read More »
How many kinds of bamboo do you know? Did you know that there are more than 1,500 bamboo species in the world, and many of these are found in the Philippines? Of the ones growing here, however, only a handful are popular and used commercially. To optimize the country’s rich bamboo resources, the Department of …
Philippine science department pours in P5M to study lesser-used bamboo species Read More »
(Editor’s note: This article has been updated as of September 14, 2021) Rubber farmers in Naga, Zamboanga Sibugay have a more aesthetic and profitable use for their senile, unproductive rubberwood trees, thanks to the DOST-Forest Products Research and Development Institute (DOST-FPRDI). Through the project “Processing and Utilization of Senile and Unproductive Rubberwood (Hevea brasiliensis) Trees …
Rubber farmers in Zamboanga Sibugay see more lucrative use for retired trees Read More »
The Department of Science and Technology-Forest Products Research and Development Institute (DOST-FPRDI) distributed on July 6 10 hands-free bamboo-abaca disinfectant dispensers and foot baths to several establishments and government offices in Los Baños, Laguna. The bamboo dispenser releases alcohol when the connected foot bath is stepped on, while the abaca acts as a sponge that …
UK-based Online Mortgage Advisor (onlinemortgageadvisor.co.uk) has recently published research comparing the average prices of one square meter of an apartment in the city center of Manila, Philippines, to the average annual salary in 2016 and 2020. That research shows Manila to be the second least affordable city to buy property in Asia, worse than property …
Manila among Asia’s least affordable cities for buying, renting property Read More »
Here’s some good news you can literally drink to. Quality yet affordable wine barrels for aging fruit wines may soon be available in the market, and yes, these barrels are made from common tropical fruit trees such as santol and Indian mango. The Department of Science and Technology’s Forest Products Research and Development Institute (DOST-FPRDI) …
PH wines to age better in sustainable barrels made from ‘santol’ and Indian mango Read More »
The party-list group ACTS-OFW on March 2 has called for a P900-daily minimum wage for construction workers to help address a looming shortage due to migration. “We are losing a great deal of good construction laborers to other countries that are paying up to 10 times the P537 daily minimum wage in Metro Manila,” said …
