Power of ThoughtA STORY OF A RICH MAN 82 YRS OLDInheritance, 10 M, Trustee1 M a day, 9.5 days, Lost it all CALL IT REVENUE, PROFIT ?

Earth: The Only Planet which contains ….4.5 Billion years

Composed of the delicate mixtures of the basic elements of Life. Air, Water and Soil

LIFE -600 M Yrs, Man-1 M; Human Civilization – 7-10,000 yrs ago when humans descended from the trees and mountains, and settled in the fertile plains of Sumeria and Mesopotamia

Cut down trees and wiped out forests, and then called it income, Gross National Product

Applying the Mindset of

Extraction and Consumption

70%

Forest Cover 1999

CEBU IS THE WORSE: FOREST COVER: __%, MOST SEVERELY ERODED, MOST CRITICAL IN WATER SUPPLY, CEBUANO KAINGINEROSCEBU-TRADING CENTER

FISH Catch– 90 to 95%in some, facing total collapseCall it: Revenue, Income

FROM 3 MILLION3 Million Hectares

0.2% INTACT CEBUANOS: BLASTING POWDER, BLASTING CAPS, CYANIDE (MACTAN AND BTYN)

Destructive Forms of Fishing

Revenue IncomeProfit, GNP

Mining: DISEMBOWELED THE EARTH, SCRAPE AWAY LIFE GIVING SOIL AND THROW AWAY WATER >Revenue?

PARADOX OF DIAMOND AND WATER > Or Depletion of the natural capital?

BURNING OF FOSSIL FUELSAir Pollutionand Global

Heating

Development!

Revenue; Profit; Progress, Development?DEVELOPMENT BASED ON THE AMOUNT OF ENERGY PRODUCED AND USED AND VOLUME OF WASTE GENERATED?

Used, used up, dirtiedWaters

WATER POLLUTION

Share of Domestic, Industrial, and Agricultural BOD at the National Level

Industrial15%

Domestic48%

Agricultural37%

Biologically Dead Rivers 16 Rivers are dead

Violations of Laws!

Called it income, revenue, and contribution to the GNP;

Rate of Consumption used as model of “progress and development”

“Industrialized” Developed economy?”

CONSUMPTION??? Synonym? waste

Highly-consuming Economics efficient use of scarce resources.

“Development based on Extraction and ‘Consumption’

5% of people- 30% of resources) Need 9 earths to

satisfy the consumption patterns

Is Waste Economical?

“Developed Economy” -- contradiction of terms?

Story of grandfather?Not 10 MFalse accounting: Fact, Fiction and Fantasy ENRON?Wall Street?US EconomyStory of Wealth and Responsibility

Economy based on Waste in not economical nor is it sustainable

Remove Waste from our Vocabulary, and mindset

Waste-less society!

A little favor please.. Developed countries: Call them Over

Consuming Countries (OCCs), a.k.a., Obsessive-Complusive Countries)

Obsessive-Compulsive – in Psychology, it is a kind of psychological and mental disorder a symptom of which is excessive hoarding of material things.

Low Consuming Countries We will turn the established ideas around

– no, we will turn it upside down. The last will be first…

ENVIRONMENT?

Environment-Not about birds and bees,

Sources of LifeLand, Air and Water (L_W)Vital Organs of LIFE on Earth- Trees and forests- Lungs- Land & soil - skin and flesh- Sea and waterways – blood

and bloodstreams- 70% of the human body and

of the Earth is water

EnforcementAction Solid WasteWhy? - civilization- nation-building - basic service- awareness into action- confidence- 20x + HTG

MAYOR

The Philippine Bar Association (PBA) filed charges against three Metro Manila Mayors before the Office of the Environmental Ombudsman for non-compliance with the Phil Solid Waste Management Law. Linda Jimeno, Ruben Fruto, Hector Martinez, Al Ancheta, Marites Sison Go, Tony Tria

Formula: CPR= E x E x E

Education Engineering Enforcemen

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THE BEST FORM OF LAW ENFORCEMENT IS WHEN THE LAW DOES NOT NEED TO BE ENFORCED

Focus on a bio-geographic unit CENTRAL PHILIPPINE ISLANDSVISAYANMARINE TRIANGLE/

WWF-thank you

36 SITES

3 SITES

16 SITES 18 SITES

Control Marine Resources Criminality

Environmental Compliance Audit Solid Waste Management

LAW/Legal Provision

ComplianceLevel

Next Steps/Timetable

Segregation 1/20

No-seg/no collectionMRFOpen dumpsite(Methane!-23 x)

Sta. Fe, Cebu: Dumpsite to Garden

TWO ROUNDS OF ENVIRONMENTAL COMPLIANCE AUDITS – NOVEMBER 08 AND JUNE 09

Using the tools of good governance1. Transparency – people are watching2. Accountability – the public officers can and will be held

accountable3. Participatory Governance – students, volunteer lawyers,

local govt officials

Bacolod and IloiloLaw students, lawyers,Civil society/NGOs

ILOILO-close the dumpsiteNo filing fee, no injunction bondGreen courtsServes to prod all local officials to address the impt, and not the superfluous

Results Initiated Compliance: Kicked-

start the process of compliance for:› All 22 towns

Partial Compliance: Enabled implementation of some real actions on the ground› 17 of 22 towns

Results

Full compliance: enabled compliance of all basic provisions of RA 9003 and RA 8550.› 4 of 22 towns

Results

From the LGU’s end:› Lack of knowledge on “How to”› Competing Priorities› Behavioural Changes such as

segregation wastes takes a little while to fully trickle down to households level

Challenges:

From the ECA team:› Implementation Methodology needs

further fine-tuning› Volunteers need further capacity building› Time for consolidation and analysis of

results given that team members do this only on a part-time basis

Challenges:

Institutionalization› Working with congress and office of

ombudsman to provide long-term financial mechanism for full-time ECA team

Involving more partners (MOA)› Capacity Building: Training on the methodology

Legal recourse for those non-compliant towns

Way forward

The Story of the King

danger opportunity

CRISIS

Story of the first shoe, of crisis, of natural resources conservation, and of what happens when there is a mind-shift from use that is wasteful to use that is wise

THANK YOU: Sonia Mendoza, Zero Waste movement, Annie Guerrero, Luz Sabas, Narda Camacho, Odette Alcantara, Foreign guests YOU!

Ordinary citizens, YOUTH … 20 yrs ago (right to speak and take action. Now … it is up to you to take action.)

A GREAT MOVEMENT MAY BE BORN IN THE MINDS OF THE FEW, BUT IT MUST BE SPOKEN BY THE MOUTHS OF MANY, AND CARRIED ON THE SHOULDERS OF ALL

What light through yonder window breaks?