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Sustainable Energy and Climate Change
The course will enable learners to understand climate change, the linkages between energy and the economy, social and health issues, environmental protection and security from the perspective of sustainable development. It will cover the basic concepts of renewable energy technologies as building blocks for sustainable development, as well as strategies and best practices in promoting and facilitating the entire process of planning, implementing and managing community-based renewable energy projects.

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Go Organic! Movement Appaluds DA for Going Organic Members of the Go Organic! Movement applauded the Department of Agriculture (DA) for concretizing its commitment to sustainable agriculture, in the signing of a Memorandum of Agreement between DA and the Go Organic! Movement for the Phase 1 of Organic FIELDS Support Program (OFSP) held yesterday. “Going into organic agriculture has obvious and proven ecological and health benefits as well as long-term impacts to productivity and farmers’ income. This is definitely a breakthrough undertaking by the DA,” said Atty. Efren Moncupa, lead convenor of Go Organic!. >> Full Story
Group launches GO ORGANIC! For the first time, progressive groups, environmentalists, local government units and the academe have joined forces to promote organic farming to help solve the country’s food crisis. At a news conference in Quezon City, Alaminos City Mayor Hernani Braganza of Pangasina announced the involvement of the Paragos-Pilipinas, the Philippine Rural Reconstruction Movement (PRRM), Centro Saka, Inc., La Liga Policy Institute, SRI-Pilipinas, Education for Life Foundation, University of the Philippines-Las Baños, Philippine Greens, Earth Day Network and Malasimbu Farmers’ Cooperative as well as actress Chin-Chin Guiterrez and pop music artist Joey Ayala as endorsers to mount an advocacy to propagate organic food rather than conventional food. The campaign is dubbed “Go Organic!” >> Full Story
Coco corporation formed in Lopez, Quezon A group composed of civic-minded citizens of Lopez municipality, Quezon province initiated to form a business corporation with coconut as its principal material. Unified by a compelling desire to take immediate action on the poverty situation of the coconut farmers, the business organization is molded along the “Whole Coconut Concept.” A truly community-based business, it harnesses the will and scarce resources of the community to meet and complement external initiatives to improve the industry, and hasten the realization of benefits by the farmers of Lopez and neighboring communities. >> Full Story
PRRM welcomes its Council of Advisers The PRRM Council of Advisers, whose members were nominated and elected by the PRRM Board of Trustees, had its inaugural meeting on March 28, 2008 at the PRRM National Headquarters in Quezon City. Six of the seven members of the Council attended its first meeting. >> Full Story
CSN in AF Board >> Full Statement	Learning and Enjoying in the Philippines >> Full Statement
PRRM Statement on the Lozada Exposé >> Full Statement	PRRM signs partnership project with GLMI-Japan >> Full Article

PRRM Chair Bobby Tañada files appeal to Supreme Court on the coconut levy
OLDEST NGO RECEIVES LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARD
	PRRM Prez Ding talks with Camarines Norte POs. PRRM President Ding Navarro shares a story on cooperative development to leaders of partner POs in Camarines Norte during a visit last August 1, 2007.
Community-Based Land Use Planning in Ifugao The Save the Ifugao Terraces Movement (SITMo) has piloted a community-based land-use planning framework for the UNESCO heritage sites. The framework methodically integrates Ifugao land use concepts and culture into a coherent whole to come out with a land use plan with strong emphasis on rice terraces conservation. After undergoing a 3-month process of land use planning, the two heritage villages of Nagacadan and Julongan in the municipality of Kiangan have had enacted its land use ordinances. The power point show (downloadable) illustrates the step-by-step process of the land use planning. \|Download PPS\|

Community & Habitat No. 13 Community resilience needs a change in mindset THIS ISSUE OF PRRM’S COMMUNITY & HABITAT JOURNAL IS focused on the intertwined issues of climate change, energy and food. Recent events have further highlighted the linkages between these concerns. As oil prices increase, driven up by the decelerating global production levels, a frantic search for alternative fuels is happening now. The search is constrained by the impact of fossil fuels on climate, which in recent years has finally entered the public radar screen. It is now generally accepted that we cannot continue the current levels of fossil fuel consumption without endangering our very survival on this planet. Among the carbon-neutral technologies which have received attention are agrofuels (which is a more accurate term than biofuels because the term pinpoint the true source of such fuels). Today more than a fourth of the U.S. corn production now goes to alcohol production. Given the expected attractive prices for agro-fuels, agricultural lands are being shifted to agro-fuel crops like corn, sugar, sorghum, and exotics such as jatropha. One doesn’t have to be an agriculture expert to predict the impact of these developments on food production. True enough, food prices are shooting up, food shortages rearing their ugly head, and countries with surplus food crops are beginning to scale down their exports. View Site Read More View whole report

Cheating, Manipulation and Harassment During the 2004 Presidential Elections, several groups and concerned political personalities joined efforts to gather evidence, analyze and expose the extent and magnitude of election manipulation carried out by the Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo (GMA) administration. Read More View whole report
Large-Scale Mining: Its Environmental, Social, Economic and Cultural Impacts in the Philippines. >> Read More	Genetically Modified Organism Policy in the Philippines: The Great Debate over High-Tech Farming and Food >> Read More