Month: May 2014
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The DOE lists ocean and wind power as potential energy sources, and I think that’s where government’s R&D on renewable energy sources should go. This country’s surrounded by water, there’s rain half of the year, and typhoons throughout. We could look at these as harbingers of destruction which they are as well but the flip side…
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In 2013, Philippines ranked 9 and Singapore 11 in installed generating capacity regionally but how come Philippines has the highest priced electricity within the region? According to the ADB The reasons for the high electricity tariffs in the Philippines are complex. The archipelagic nature of the country makes building and maintaining power grids expensive. The main reasons for the high…
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I believe everyone agrees that education is a great equalizer, but in order to serve that purpose, education, in the context of the right to education, should be adequate. Adequate education means it is available, acceptable, adaptable, and accessible. Access is further understood within these dimensions: nondiscrimination or accessible to all, physical accessibility, and economic accessibility…
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I’d like to expand the popular meaning of ‘heritage’ to include ‘biocultural heritage’, defined as that which refers to the knowledge, innovations and practices of indigenous peoples, and their biological resources, from the crops they develop to the landscapes they create. It also includes indigenous customary laws, cultural values and spiritual beliefs. This tangible and…
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Found this video of the day Philippine SC announced in Baguio City it’s decision on the contested constitutionality of the RH Law. It proves, once again, that significant change can be effected by relatively small but nonetheless well-organized, determined, persistent, and cohesive groups.
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I came by articles on the US Affordable Housing Institute (AHI) website, written by David A. Smith on Matthew Desmond’s doctoral dissertation on eviction. An assistant professor of sociology at Harvard, Desmond explains his interest in the subject It brings together poor and non-poor people—tenants, their families, landlords, social workers, lawyers, judges, sheriffs—in relationships of…
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“Old ways of doing things are not working.” What, then, is the alternative? Sociologist Karen Ehrhardt-Matinez proposes a social science approach as a lens to understand and solve energy and climate issues. In this video, she presents a conceptual framework, Human Systems in the Environment, to understand where human behavior is situated within the ecological system, environment, and…