New CRLs #fistonheart Part 2

Barangay 66 of the second Climate Reality Global Training in August.

This is the second of three parts featuring my former mentees and now fellow CRLs.

Vegans have the right to eat too!

Just grabbed this from the Greenpeace website: http://www.greenpeace.org/seasia/ph/press/releases/Batarisorgph-Greenpeace-launches-online-platform-for-people-powered-environmental-and-social-change/

Ok, ok. I know what you are thinking. I’m a relentless petition signer, and I’m a serial petition writer. I’m overly optimistic, delusional, crazy even, to believe that online signatures could help change the world (in fact they do, too!) I decry the fact that I’m practically a nomad, a rootless environmentalist who couldn’t last more than five years in a place since I had the right to choose where to live. I would love to do grassroots action, and I envy a lot of my fellow greenies who get to build work in their communities. I have also done a lot of initiatives wherever I was in my home country. But I was disappointed when I had to uproot myself again and move. It is disconcerting, to say the least when you have to uproot yourself every so often. I am more aware of it now that I am a development worker abroad.

Birthing the Balagon Cultural Creatives 1

I hadn’t had a real weekend in months and my body was aching for a break reminding me of it through a fever that burned from Saturday afternoon to Sunday morning.

But the weekend was pregnant with possibilities. My little family trooped to Guimaras Island for ‘The Journey of an Artist’, a small gathering of Iloilo artists and creatives. Jags Rubio and I co-facilitated the event co-organized by Tintin Buenavista, Marz Capanang, Mumu Dalisay, and Arjun Marapon. There were 18 of us, including Balay na Bato host couple Mahesh and Mayin Alejo.

700 reasons for #ClimateHope

The Mentors of the Climate Reality Leadership Corps 31st International Training, held on March 14-16, 2016 at Sofitel, Philippine Plaza.

(From The Climate Reality Project website:  Some people wait for the future. Leaders create it.

Ordinary people face challenges. Climate Reality Leaders embrace them. The Climate Reality Leadership Corps is a global network of activists committed to taking on the climate crisis and solving what is far and away the greatest challenge of our time.

The program takes great leaders and makes them exceptional, providing training in climate science, communications, and organizing to tell the story of climate change and inspire communities everywhere to take action. The result is a dynamic group of world-changers shaping the conversation on climate in forums from family dinners to international summits and building a 21st-century movement for solutions.) 

The Power of Little Things: Reflections on Liwanag World Festival 2013

There is nothing less than grand about the Liwanag World Festival. But this is only because it is made up of many modest, well thought-out, things. Indeed, we witnessed what Aristotle meant by “the whole is more than the sum of its parts.”

During the last press conference. I donned my Climate Reality hat and helped announce the Beyond Carbon Neutral Initiative for Liwanag. Happy to be in the company of Liwanag’s visionary leader Nicanor Perlas;  Leo “Happy L.A.” Avila, festival consultant; and Maya Vandenbroeck, head of the Volunteer Committee. Photo by Louise Far