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Young Pinoys join YouTube contest in response to Ondoy devastation

19 Nov

After seeing the devastation of typhoons Ondoy and Pepeng that hit the country, two young Pinoys are appealing to the viewers to think about the effects of climate change by joining a user generated video campaign called “Raise Your Voice”.

Paul Darwynn Garilao and Alfonso Orioste, Jr., graduates of De La Salle University – Manila, are expecting to participate with the global leaders, who will convene to discuss climate change in Copenhagen in Denmark from December 7 to 21, 2009.

Dubbed as the biggest convention after Kyoto Protocol, the United Nations Climate Change Conference will iron out platforms to “reduce global warming emissions and ultimately chart a course that avoids the most severe impacts of climate change.”

“Raise Your Voice” campaign is sponsored by CNN, Youtube, and Danish government. The contest encourages individuals to send videos with their views, opinions, and questions about the global event.

The two best video campaigns will win through public voting from November 6 to 30,2009.

Here are steps to vote:

  1. Visit www.youtube.com/cop15

  2. Click Vote.

  3. Search Philippines on the videos per country.

  4. Kindly click the “green thumbs up” sign for the entry entitled: “Raise Your Voice by Filipino environmental advocates.”

The video can be viewed here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z8RanL2KMyo

As of this writing, this is only the single entry from the Philippines and South East Asia.

“We are massively campaigning for our video through social networking sites. Based on our initial count, more than 300 users linked the video to their personal Facebook accounts. We also blasted e-mail to more than 8,000 people to ensure they get our message,” Garilao said.

For the offline approach, we tapped schools and environmental organizations to use the video as a campaign drive to fight climate change. In fact, De La Salle University-Manila where we came from is all out support for the video,” Garilao added.

Their video entry was featured by YouTube together with other four contenders from Germany, France, India, and Italy. Click the URL here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gD7Wof3Eng0.

In the video entry, the young guys discuss disaster management system and major shift to use alternative energies.

Based on viewpoints from a developed and developing nation, they highlight action plans to reduce carbon emissions by industries and implement preventive measures when natural disasters strike. Garilao and Orioste also discussed that simple steps like conserving water and turning off devices when not in use will help

The participants are passionate about environmental concerns. Garilao, who worked in public relations firm in Manila, is now based in Hawaii. A licensed engineer in Manila, his research on Liquefied Petroleum Gas two stroke engines is focused on alternative energies.

Graduated honorable mention in La Salle, Orioste is now taking his law in San Beda College. Orioste said, “As we have experienced the storms Ondoy (Ketsana) and Pepeng taught us a lot of lessons. This is a wakeup call for the Philippine government to implement laws and programs on environmental management and disaster preparedness.”

Garilao added, “We ask our global leaders to reach out to developing countries like the Philippines in helping us craft an effective communications program to respond to disasters. The two storms that hit our country is a wakeup call for Philippine government and the society. For most of our fellow citizens, it is a traumatic experience so they are expecting the government and communities are alert of the super typhoons that may hit the country in the future.”

If they able to generate a significant number of votes, the Filipino advocates would represent the Philippines and raise environmental concerns with the leaders during the convention. This may also be aired on CNN/Youtube Debates on December 15.

“If we are given the chance to go to Copenhagen, we will return our key learning points to communities and government officials in the Philippines,” Garilao said to encourage everyone to translate their voices into actions against climate change.

I support these young guys effort. Stop complaining and blaiming each other voice out our grievances in proper venue and create awareness. I want to see them in Copenhagen let’s Vote for them.

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Join Earth Hour 2009

28 Mar

VOTE EARTH

Today at 20.30 I will join millions of people around the world to turn off the light for 1 hour.
This is not only saving energy for an hour but an action to call the attentions of ordinary people, businessmen, manufacturers and the politicians or lawmakers to think and make policies to reduce energy consumption.

This initiative was started in 2007 in Sydney and it grew significantly as of this moment the are 72 cities in 62 countries are participating.

Learn more about the campaign with this video and visiting the website

http://www.voteearth2009.org/home/

December this year, the world leaders are gathering in Copenhagen for the Global Climate Conference to make some serious decisions about our future, and about global warming. So join the earth connect and write something about earth. We have all the rights to demand our leaders to make policies to stop the deterioration of the very place we live in the EARTH. Blog about this not only today but until the Climate Conference and tag vote earth.

The future Buildings designs will be more Sustainable and fulfill the energy requirements. In Denmark in compliance to the EU directive revised the Building Regulation which is implemented last year. The Directive is to classify the building according to classification so when you apply a building permit it is not only the Structural they look but most important if that building fulfills the energy requirement in consideration of daylight, lighting, ventilation, heat etc but also consideration of the local climate situation is taken into account like Northern Europe local conditions is different from the South. England was the first to implement the EU Energy Performance Directive.

This is a bold move for the governments because this means more investment just to cite an example in

The thickness of insulation for external wall in the old BR is 125mm thick but on the new requirement is to use 175mm

It will be very technical just to explain about the heat losses and energy frame but the total point of the Energy Preformance Directive is to save energy which can be illustrate in simple calculations:

Did you know that a building complying with the requirements of BR 82 uses approximate 10 liters of oil/m2

while in BR 92 uses approximately 7.5 liters of oil/m2

And the New BR 2008 uses approximately 5.5 liters of oil/m2

I ought to discuss more about that in other post and I have to study it further.

Regulations is a good and effective way to minimize Global Warming but all of us should be aware of and contribute. Below is my thoughts

  • Join the Earth Hour today
  • Change our light bulbs to energy savings bulbs
  • Turn off electrical appliances when not in use on standby uses also energy
  • Change appliances like Refrigerators, freezers, washing machine, dishwasher to be energy class
  • Learn to use the battery of our laptops remember that not using it reduces the lifespan which sometimes I forgot about it.
  • Check the tightness of your dwelling or houses maybe you losing precious heat during winter thats so expensive.
  • Don’t wash clothes in high temperatures
  • Sort you garbages bottles, plastic, batteries, cartons, paper etc. should be sorted out so they will not be burned and add more Co2
  • In the Philippines we always iron our clothes but now I don’t iron t shirts or ordinary clothes just the polo shirts and for party or office clothes. Well I usually buys iron free pants and shirts.
  • As much as possible avoid drying clothes in the tumbler.
  • Filipinos eat rice most of the time I still do but Rice cookers are biggest suckers of energy so I seldom use it except during for emergencies.

I learn about earth hour from Bloggers Unite and This will be my entry to the earth hour event.earthhour

There is a lot more we can contribute for our dear EARTH. Join the event.
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