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  • Baguio City, PH starts transition towards a circular economy

    Posted by Chris Hidalgo on June 23, 2022

    (in photo above) ICLEI SEAS and Baguio City technical staff from the Planning, Environment, Disaster Risk Reduction and Management, Engineering, and General Service departments last 30 March 2022 during the Circular Economy Workshop. According to the Circle Economy’s Circularity Gap Report, over 100-billion tonnes of materials are consumed annually in the world’s current “take-make-waste” linear economy, […]

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  • [CLOSED] CALL FOR APPLICATIONS: Communications Interns for ICLEI SEAS

    Posted by Chris Hidalgo on June 14, 2022

    The ICLEI – Local Governments for Sustainability Southeast Asia Secretariat is currently looking for a Communications Intern (CI). The CI will be part of ICLEI SEAS and will be involved in internal and external communications work, including knowledge management, development and production of communication materials, member and stakeholder engagement, and media engagement, among other communications roles. […]

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  • DKI Jakarta hailed as ‘21-’22 Indonesia OPCC winner

    Posted by Chris Hidalgo on June 12, 2022

    DKI Jakarta is now a four-time national winner of the World Wide Fund for Nature’s (WWF) One Planet City Challenge (OPCC) after being selected as the Indonesian champion of the competition’s 2021-2022 run. Representatives from the winning city, finalists Probolinggo City and Balikpapan City, and 21 other participating local governments were present for the awarding […]

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  • Solar net-metered village in PH launched

    Posted by Chris Hidalgo on June 11, 2022

    This article originally appeared in The Manila Times. The Philippines’ pioneering solar net-metered community has been launched at the Via Verde subdivision in the City of Trece Martires, Cavite. The residential houses in the community features solar net-metering, generating their own electricity while exporting excess energy to the grid in exchange for electricity bill credits. […]

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  • How this small Philippine beach town went from mangrove cutting capital to country’s largest mangrove forest

    Posted by Chris Hidalgo on June 10, 2022

    In 2010, the Municipality of Del Carmen’s Mangrove Forest was almost considered as the illegal mangrove cutting capital of the Philippines. Now, the small town in the Southern Philippines has one of the largest contiguous blocks of mangrove forests in the country. Not only did Del Carmen’s conservation program save its local ecosystem, it also […]

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  • Hiring (Stratcon Philippines): Projects & Company Accountant

    Posted by Chris Hidalgo on June 9, 2022

    Stratcon Philippines is looking for a Projects & Company Accountant! Check out the specific job details here: https://www.linkedin.com/posts/stratcon-philippines_job-title-projects-company-accountant-activity-6944643270480191488-I39k/

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