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EcoWaste Coalition Deplores Piles of Mixed Garbage in Metro Manila’s Streets Following the New Year’s Revelry

The EcoWaste Coalition, a watchdog group campaigning for a zero waste and toxics-free society, has expressed its dismay over the heaps of mixed “holitrash” (holiday trash) dotting the streets of Metro Manila following the New Year’s Eve festivities. According to…

GAIA welcomes January 2023 as INTERNATIONAL ZERO WASTE MONTH

Zero Waste for Zero Emissions The Global Alliance for Incinerator Alternatives (GAIA) Asia Pacific is using the strength of the movement to celebrate International Zero Waste Month this January. Leveraging its wide international network, GAIA boldly takes the lead to…

Sea water: a marine plasma within everyone’s reach

Quinton’s theories, with his Laws of Constancy, gave us a vision of human origin and health based on Life and holistic balance (treating the person as a whole, as an entity and not in separate parts). On the other hand,…

Artificial intelligence, technoscience and humanist culture

The Silicon Valley model is to accelerate the process of modernising the health sector, or the health industry as they call it, by digitising its processes, practices and services. The new medical order is based on the application of data…

EcoWaste Coalition Backs Community Action to Protect People and the Environment from Firecrackers and Fireworks

27 December 2022, Quezon City.  The toxics watchdog group EcoWaste Coalition exhorted the country’s over 42,000 barangays (communities) to mount proactive action that will protect their constituents and the ecosystems from harm caused by the lighting of firecrackers and fireworks,…

Toxic watchdog group to consumers, authorities: Beware of prohibited giant Piccolo firecrackers!

Toxic watchdog group BAN Toxics sounded the alarm over the selling of “Giant Piccolo” in the market. Piccolo has been marked as one of the prohibited firecrackers for the past years and is one of the main culprits of firecracker-related…

EcoWaste Coalition Promotes Eco-Friendly Celebration of Christmas to Prevent and Reduce “Holitrash”

21 December 2022, Quezon City.  As Christmas draws closer, a waste and pollution watchdog group appealed for public cooperation to lessen the environmental impact of the much-anticipated festive celebration. At an event held yesterday at the San Pablo Apostol Parish…

Our Health Care System Is Broken—Fixing It Is Not Hard

Americans are being slammed by a “tripledemic” this holiday season as three major respiratory illnesses—COVID-19, influenza, and respiratory syncytial virus (RSV)—are spreading at indoor gatherings. Hospitals are once more in danger of running out of beds, and the Biden administration has…

No day but today: January welcomes the International Zero Waste Month

Zero Waste advocates call for systems change Lifting the fog of the past that is 2020 and the seemingly unprecedented effect of government lockdowns and people staying inside their homes, experts have noticed a slight improvement in our air quality.…

Lancet Commission: Rediscovering the value of the dying process (Note 2)

“The living close their eyes to the dead. The dead open their eyes to the living” (Hindu proverb). We share from REHUNO Health the second note of the series on the report of the Lancet Commission entitled: “The Value of…

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