In the spirit of Earth Day, SM Cinemas in the Philippines are offering a free showing of Al Gore’s An Inconvenient Truth on Sunday April 22, 2007.

This is in cooperation also with the Philippine Dept of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR), Earth Day Network Philippines, and Magnavision.
Read the rest of this entry »

The Department of Energy announced that they are planning to revise the investment package offered to potential wind farm operators in the country. Based from what I’ve seen, they seem to be more inclined to seek foreign investors to build wind farms rather than get local companies. This is because they’ve said that the main drawback to investors is the constitutional provision that prevents foreign ownership of properties in the Philippines. I doubt it if they can change that, they need a Constitutional Assembly to change that or a 3/4 vote by Congress[source].
Read the rest of this entry »

According to the Philippine government’s weather agency (PAGASA). Last Tuesday’s 36.8 deg. Celsius was not the hottest record to date for the Philippines.
Read the rest of this entry »

Sunpower Corporation, majority owned by Cypress Semiconductor, announced that they are expanding their solar cell manufacturing plant in the Philippines (SunPower Philippines Manufacturing Ltd). About Php 27 B ($562M) is being allocated for the expansion that will increase plant capacity to 400MW. An estimated 2000 jobs will be created by the expansion.
Read the rest of this entry »

David Filo recently announced in the Yahoo blog, that he and co-founder Jerry Yang have made it a goal for the internet behemoth to be carbon neutral in 2007.
Read the rest of this entry »