Renowned Philippine Columnist, Mr. Rey “Butch” Gamboa, reported that Eco Securities of Ireland offered a local piggery, Uni-Rich, $12000/year ($4/carbon credit) for their carbon revenues till the year 2012. Uni-Rich gets carbon credits for trapping and using the methane generated from their pig manure to power some of their facilities.

In turn, Eco Securities sells their rights to big banks (Caisse des Depots) at $18/carbon credit. Does it look like a fair trade?, or is there just too much money for the middle man? But if Eco Securities are the one themselves investing in the certification and the methane trapping equipment, then it is a fair trade off. Not to mention that there are yearly monitoring costs that have to be spent to check whether Uni-Rich is indeed following its Green practices of processing their solid wastes.
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My Good Friend, Abaniko, went up to Ilocos Norte in the Philippines and was able to get shots of the famed electricity generating windmills there.

So that’s how a halved 40 MW Windmill farm looks like? *snicker*

Philippines will play host to a Biofuel forum that will be attended by South East Asian nations. To be held on April 23 to 25 at the Dusit Thani Hotel in Makati. The theme of the forum is entitled: “Unravelling the Policy Issues and Development Challenges on Biofuels”.

The event is hosted by the Southeast Asian Regional Center for Graduate Study and Research in Agriculture (SEARGA) who are headquartered at Los Baños.
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Multi Awarded, Von Hernandez, has been appointed to head Greenpeace in South East Asia.

Mr. Hernandez is a recipient of a Goldman Environmental Prize in 2003. He has also been honored by Time Magazine, as one of the Heroes of the Environment for 2007. Aside from these accolades, Mr. Hernandez also brings with him over 15 years of environmental activism experience.

Greenpeace is an independent, global campaigning organization that acts to change attitudes and behavior, to protect and conserve the environment, and to promote peace.[source]

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