What comes to mind when you think of the word “radical?” In this day and age, the answers may be “fanatics,” “extremists,” and “socialists.” “Radical” has become a word that connotes something “over the top” in a negative sense. But I recently learned about the concept of “radical collaboration,” which…
In the mid-‘70s, when the then Manila Midtown Ramada Hotel was being constructed, Sister Regina Victoria (Sr. “Regivic”) Yulo of the Religious of the Assumption was requested by representatives of the owners of the hotel, the Gokongwei group, to identify the structures deep down the construction site. But why, indeed, ask a nun to perform that task?
Published February 14, 2021, 5:30 AM
The country’s largest geothermal energy producer Energy Development Corporation (EDC) had taken its first cardinal step to become a ‘zero waste company’, in line with its goal for a regenerative and decarbonized future.
The Lopez-led firm’s “zero waste target” is rooted upon the fact that the country is the third biggest polluter in the world – with 2.7 million metric tons of plastic wastes generated annually, as reported last year by the McKinsey Center for Business and Environment.
MOA signing ceremony between Energy Development Corporation (EDC) and Plastic Flamingo (PLAF) for the plastic-to-shelter project.
On that premise, EDC pointed out that it turned to be a fundamental mission for it to “help in eliminating plastic waste materials,” and this is an advocacy it is now advancing in partnership with Plastic Flamingo (PLAF) for its plastic-to-shelter project.