Clean and Green Environment Are You Aware?

People here in my city are environmentalist disciplined, we are aware about the environment. We do not throw a trash whenever and wherever, even a candy wrapper or smoke filter. Every year we plant trees in mountains with our "Pista Y Ang kagueban" celebration every month of June which is usually 2nd week of June. Thousands of people, all government employees, students, private employees, and individuals are joining this celebration, same as with our "Love Affair with Nature" which we celebrates every 14th day of February, with that celebration people here are planting Mangrove trees in seaside area. Our city, Puerto Princesa City proclaimed as cleanest and greenest city in Philippines.

What I do to help is recycle my soda pop cans and bring my own bags to the grocery store. I know it isn't much compared to what some people are doing to help, but every bit counts right? :)

This is such a good idea to put up cash prize for the ones who bring up a clean and green environment around his place. It should be started by every country, state, city in order to make the place green and clean.

I am aware of this phenomenon and I am taking some steps to help. Unlike before, we are now used to segregating our garbage into biodegradable and others. I am also now very sensitive with throwing trashes elsewhere. I'm actually pissed seeing some people do it.

Hi my Kababayan julyteen, good day to you! Well this is my response to your forum topic discussion entitled "Clean and Green Environment are you aware". Your right that's it is really needed in our environment to become green, in the Philippines... It is need because we must save our planet from polution that's why we are protecting it and we must save in order to be use by our next life generation. Well me here in our country in the Philippines in our province i always join in some programs of our baranggay like the CLEAN AND GREEN which the thing that we do is too clean the dirty surrounding and plant some trees to make the community became green and away from polution like air polution. Here in our Baranggay there is a program for the community every month in order to maintain a good community. I wish all baranggay is like our baranggay so we can save our country! Well that's all my response! Happy earning and happy posting to you! Good luck to our earning career!

I guess the very reason why the government targeted the barangays is the fact that the baragay is the smallest political unit of the country. Being such, the government thinks that it is easier to convene people and encourage environmental care -- there is truth with the saying think globally, act locally. I guess, if all barangays will be cooperative (a city has barangays too), then by collective effort, big things will be accomplished.

We always have the cleanest barangay contest in a town where I used to live but it only help beautify things while the contest is on-going. And we have all this sort of cleanest river, cleanest city, etc... as national contests but they did not help sustain a clean and green Philippines. I think the government should have focused on making and IMPLEMENTING laws that will really help our country and the world a cleaner and a greener place to live in. The beautification contests are just "ningas-cogon" projects and it is not a long term goal. The environmental problems are so real and huge to be met with so little effort.