Green Choice Philippines

A few months back, I met some nice ladies from the Clean and Green Foundation who were nice enough to tell me that, contrary to popular belief of our country's backwardness, there is a group of dedicated individuals composed of both the public and private sector which reviews locally available products for environmental risks assessment.

The Ecolabeling Programme awards the Green Choice Philippines label to products that meet their criteria for being environmentally sound. As the ladies told me, so far there have been only 5 products that have been labelled Green Choice Philippines, but I only remember 3: Surf, Tide and Portland Cement (yes, cement). So please, if you see the logo up there, patronize it! Buy it! Spread the Good News!

You can visit the Green Choice Philippines website for more details about the Ecolabeling Programme. Unfortunately, their gallery for products labeled Green Choice is still not updated and is in fact empty. But I've already seen the GCP logo on Tide and Surf products in supermarkets, so hooray!

Long delayed post: Earth Hour Philippines saves 56MWh!

Sorry for the very long delay. I just realized I had almost a dozen posts about Earth Hour but no actual results aside from the video posts I got.

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WWF and Meralco estimates that more than a million Filipinos participated, saving 56MWh of energy and reducing greenhouse gas emissions by as much as 30-tonnes in Luzon alone – equivalent to shutting down an entire coal-fired powerplant!

Yes, the 30 tons is for the entire hour. This translates into:

Number of cars equivalent
Luzon: 334 cars consuming full tank fuel of 40L; 263 jeepneys consuming full tank fuel of 45L
MM: 96 cars 75 jeepneys

Number of households equivalent
Luzon - 560 households consuming 100kWh/ month
MM - 160 hh @ 100kWh/month

Millions of pesos equivalent
Luzon - 552,338.47 = P532,000 (kWh savings@ P9.5/kWh) + P20,338.47 (CO2 avoidance @ EUR10/t-CO2 and P66.034/EUR)
MM - 157,810.99 = P152,000 (kWh savings) + P5,810.99 (CO2 avoidance)

Again, thank you very much for your support.

Sincerely,
Teena

Teena G. Santiago
Resource Mobilization Officer
WWF-Philippines/
Kabang Kalikasan ng Pilipinas
JBD Plaza, 56 Mindanao Avenue
Bagong Pag-Asa, Quezon City
Philippines
Phone: + 63 2 920-7923 or 26
Fax: +63 2 454-3533
Mobile: +63 920 923-6998
email: tsantiago@wwf.org.ph
Website: http://wwf.org.ph