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Last year, on March 21, 2018, on the International Day of the Forest, the Best Friends of the Forest (BFF) Movement was born. Founded by the Forest Foundation of the Philippines, the BFF Movement is a community of young and action-oriented environmentalists, artists, travelers, and social entrepreneurs. The group aims to inspire and enable more millennials to be advocates of forest conservation and protection. 

The need for millennials to take up the mantle of conservation for their generation is more urgent than ever before. 

“The threat of deforestation has become so severe that we are losing forest cover at an alarming rate. If we do not take action, our forests may not be around for the next generation to see,” said Forest Foundation Philippines’ Executive Director, Atty. Jose Canivel a year ago, during the launch of the BFF Movement.

Anybody with a heart for forest conservation can join the BFF Movement. A year since it was launched, it has gathered the support of many outspoken environmental advocates. BFF Movement has also gotten the attention of young people looking for ways to make the world a better place.

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Pasig City Named Philippine Winner of WWF’s One Planet City Challenge 2018

Pasig City has been declared as the Philippine National Capital of the 2017-2017 edition of World Wide Fund for Nature’s (WWF) One Planet City Challenge (OPCC). This is a biennial global challenge that recognizes cities for developing infrastructure, housing, transport and mobility solutions to power the global transition to a low-carbon, climate-resilient future. 2018 had 133 cities representing 23 countries accepting the Challenge.

These are Pasig’s actions that made it a winner that reflected the “sustainable transport and mobility” theme of this run of the OPCC and have made the city eligible for the Global OPCC Prize

• concrete and comprehensive actions to reduce its carbon emissions, particularly its plan to reduce traffic emissions and congestions
• its targeted actions around renewable energy and energy efficiency
• the city’s strong community engagement and its adaptation actions, such as the cleaning of the Pasig River
• its strong alignment of actions to emissions reduction and execution of said actions.

Seven other Philippine cities have successfully qualified to join the 2017-2018 OPCC based on the criteria announced early in 2017:

• Batangas
• Catbalogan
• Makati
• Parañaque
• San Carlos
• Tagum
• Zamboanga

The cities of Makati, Pasig, and San Carlos went on to become national finalists and participated in the “We Love Cities” global campaign from May 7 until the end of June 2018.

The City of Jakarta bagged the top plum in the campaign, which is a social media contest that is aimed at inspiring and engaging the respective citizens of the national finalists across the globe for support, votes, and ideas for improvement while Pasig came in second.

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Tags: Green Cities, One Planet City Challenge, One Planet City Challenge 2018, Pasig City, Sustainable Cities, We Love Cities

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I brought some reusable containers with me when we went to the supermarket last week. These were ice cream tub, cream cheese tub and two microwaveable containers from takeout food. I first went to a Magnolia Chicken station but they refused to use my containers saying they will still put the chicken in plastic and it would be up to me to transfer in my containers. What’s the point, I wanted to use my containers to avoid using plastic that I will be throwing anyway. Staff said in their meeting, they will only use their branded plastic because their sales are based on the usage of plastic but how? Some like me, I used to ask for big extra ones when I buy more than 2 bags of chicken. Is that counted? That is even extra expenses on the company, on me, with the added burden of adding more plastic to the trash pile.
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I then went to another meat shop, Tender Lean, when I noticed that they were using unbranded plastic bags for the meats. The staff was accommodating. He weighed my containers first before putting in the meats. Good job, Tender Lean meatshop. The staff said he knew what to do because they have clients who bring their own containers when they buy meats.

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I will try this next to a meat shop near us because I know the staff there. I hope they will be more open to the idea.
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We are not really big consumers of meat especially during the summer months. This batch will probably last us two weeks because I mostly use a small amount of meat for sautéing as can be seen in my #platefuloffun food photos.

Tags: reusable containers for buying meats, Tender Lean meat at Landmark Trinoma, using less plastic

We love our Healthy Human water bottles. There is no need to add ice cubes in it because the water is still cold after 8 hours has passed. It is sturdy and the matte finish is good to avoid little scratches. It has a soft cloth cover for each but I bought another cover with handle that can be used as shoulder strap from the Japan thrift stores.

We got the 21oz insulated stainless steel water bottles.

Read more about it here.

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World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) Philippines National Youth Ambassador Janine Gutierrez is a passionate advocate of proper waste management and garbage disposal. She graced the on-ground fundraiser for a day for WWF-Philippines’ “Fundraising Hour” activity at the Lucky Chinatown Mall in Manila.

The fundraising is one event for this WWF-Philippines ambassador to spread awareness on pressing environmental issues and introduce the Individual Donor Program or IDP. The IDP encourages everyone to directly contribute in the conservation efforts of WWF-Philippines all over the country. Donors can sign up at booths in selected venues or through online.

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Janine, as one of the newest celebrity ambassadors of WWF-Philippines has supported activities like Earth Hour, Sustainable Food, Sustainable Future Fundraising Dinner, Partners’ Night 2017 and a site visit to Dobson, Sorsogon.

Janine said that “I am so glad that I am doing a lot more now to protect our environment. Our activities at WWF-Philippines encourages everyone, especially the youth, to take an active role in protecting and preserving our planet because together we can make everything possible.”

Luckily Chinatown is a perfect venue for the fundraising event because it has partnered up with WWF-Philippines for its Panda-themed holidays. “Adopt-a-Panda” campaign allows shoppers to take home a panda stuffed toy, a WWF pin, and an official adoption certificate for Php500.00. All proceeds will go to WWF-Philippines’ conservation programs. The “Adopt-a-Panda” campaign runs till December 31, 2017.

Contributions to the WWF-Philippines will help the campaigns and projects in the conservation of the natural habitats, resources and ecosystems in the country as it carries out its mission to build a future where Filipinos live in harmony with nature.

To know more about WWF-Philippines or to donate online, visit http://wwf.org.ph

Tags: Adopt-a-Panda campaign, Janine Gutierrez, Lucky Chinatown Manila, World Wide Fund, WWF-Philippines, WWF-Philippines Adopt-a-Panda campaign

Electrolux will launch Delightful-E Simple to Save contest  that will run from August 11 – September 15, 2014

“Electrolux understands that every peso and second counts,” said Andrea Pionilla, Marketing Manager of Electrolux Philippines. “This is the reason behind Delightful-E Simple. We want to help moms save not just money but also their precious time by making their everyday tasks delightfully simple and easy.”

For every money and time well-spent and save, we feel good, right? Imagine how, with the chores we (love or dread to) do, we are able to save BOTH money and time, wouldn’t you just say “It is indeed Delightful-E Simple to Save“.

With this in mind, Electrolux Philippines Facebook Page has created a Savings Calculator app where you get help in adding up your savings. It also enables you to keep track of your laundry expenses and savings at the same time.

What more, this Savings Calculator is very easy to use. It can help you track down your weekly laundry expenses based on a few things: number of family members, average weekly load and how you wash your clothes.

After tracking your expenses, the Savings Calculator will show you how much you can save in a year when you use an Electrolux washing machine.

And what do you do with the money you saved for a year?

If you are a mom or a dad, you might think of school expenses, a weekend family getaway, utility bills and grocery items with which those savings might go to. If you are single, then perhaps you can now get that new pair of shoes you have been saving up for, a new gadget perhaps or a weeklong vacation?

Wait… didn’t I just say how much you can save when using an Electrolux Washing Machine and you say you don’t have one?

HERE IS THE GOOD NEWS:  Electrolux is giving away not just one but 4, yes FOUR!! washing machines to four very lucky people.

Here are the four easy steps on how you could be one of those four winners (claim it now!)

1. Like the Electrolux Facebook page facebook.com/thelittlewhitebook

2. Calculate your laundry savings using the Savings Calculator

3. Hit the Share button found in the result page

4. In the caption, type in what you plan to buy using your laundry savings and do not forget to include the hashtags #DelightfulE and #SimpleToSave and post it on your Facebook page.

Follow ElectroluxPH on Twitter and Instagram.

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