Thursday, May 22, 2008
Wednesday, October 17, 2007
Al Gore and the IPCC awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for 2007!
Al Gore named 2007 Nobel Peace Prize winner!
Live Earth extends our most enthusiastic and sincere congratulations to Al Gore and the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, who share this year's Nobel Peace Prize "for their efforts to build up and disseminate greater knowledge about man-made climate change, and to lay the foundations for the measures that are needed to counteract such change."
We heartily share the view of the Nobel committee that Mr. Gore is "the single individual who has done most to create greater worldwide understanding of the measures that need to be adopted" to solve the climate crisis.
We look forward to our ongoing work together to bring the movement to solve the climate crisis to even more of the world. We are thrilled that the Nobel Committee has chosen to recognize the leaders creating worldwide awareness and advocacy for the most pressing global issue of our time.
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I am deeply honored to receive the Nobel Peace Prize. This award is even more meaningful because I have the honor of sharing it with the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change--the world's pre-eminent scientific body devoted to improving our understanding of the climate crisis--a group whose members have worked tirelessly and selflessly for many years. We face a true planetary emergency. The climate crisis is not a political issue, it is a moral and spiritual challenge to all of humanity. It is also our greatest opportunity to lift global consciousness to a higher level.
My wife, Tipper, and I will donate 100 percent of the proceeds of the award to the Alliance for Climate Protection, a bipartisan non-profit organization that is devoted to changing public opinion in the U.S. and around the world about the urgency of solving the climate crisis.
Thank you,
Al Gore
Thanks to my batchmate Mark G. for pointing this out! Ang galing ng Pinoy! :)
Something that you may probably don't know about the Nobel Peace Prize this year:
The other recipient is an organization called IPCC which stands for Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. The organization was "established by WMO and UNEP to assess scientific, technical and socio- economic information relevant for the understanding of climate change, its potential impacts and options for adaptation and mitigation."
Here's where it gets interesting: Three of the scientists directly involved in the IPCC are from the Philippines, one of whom is a certain Dr. Felino Lansigan (UPLB Institute of Statistics), member of the technical working group of the IPCC. Dr. Felino Lansigan is the father of a Pisay '98 scholar, my batchmate Ian Lansigan :) The other Filipino scientists are Dr. Rex Cruz (UPLB) and Dr. Rose Perez (PAGASA).
Congrats to the Filipino scientists involved with IPCC!
A joke from Ren, one of my current students: "Al Gore and the IPCC were awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for 2007 for inventing global warming!"
Ngiii.
Thursday, July 05, 2007
SOS | Live Earth | 7.7.07 - 150 bands, 7 continents, 24 hrs, 1 global crisis
is a 24-hour, 7-continent concert series
taking place on 7/7/07
that will bring together
more than 100 music artists
and 2 billion people
to trigger a global movement
to solve the climate crisis.
Live Earth concerts will be broadcast
to a live worldwide audience by MSN at
http://www.LiveEarth.MSN.com.
For more info,
please check out
http://www.liveearth.org
Tuesday, January 31, 2006
Shoot that smoke belcher! *click*
Bawal...magsmoke-belching!
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Dear friends,
The Integrated Bar of the Philippines, the national association of laywers in the country, launched an Anti-Smoke Belching campaign last year. To help clean the streets of smoke belching vehicles, please send pictures of smokebelching vehicles to
smokebelchers@yahoo.com
The plate number must be visible in the picture. Go for the gross polluters.
IBP will assign a volunteer lawyer to send a notice to sue to the owner of the smoke belching vehicle and require the owner to submit the vehicle for emission testing at the LTO East Avenue emission testing center within 30 days. A paralegal or lawyer will be present during the emission testing.
Help keep our streets clear of smokebelchers. Send your pictures now!
National Environmental Action Team
Integrated Bar of the Philippines
IBP Building, No. 15 Julia Vargas Avenue
Ortigas Center, Pasig City, Philippines
Tel. Nos. 6313016, 9100408
Fax No. 6313013
www.ibp.org.ph
Look for Atty. Karen Baydo or Atty. Glynda Bathan-Baterina
