Monsignor Gianfranco Girotti, the head of the Vatican’s Apostolic Penitentiary, announced a new set of acts that are to be considered by Catholics as sinful behaviour. Included in that list was “Pollution”.
These announcements came after a week long conference in the Vatican on the topic of Confession. This was also due to the decision of the Church to modernize the categorization of sins for the current times.
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The Philippine’s first ever World Solar Challenge entry has now hit the 2000 km milestone of the gruelling 3000km race in Australia. Check out their current position [here].
The car, cristened Sinag, is taken from the Filipino word meaning “Ray of Sunlight.” The car was built by Students from my Alma Mater’s Mechanical Engineering Department and Electronics and Communications Engineering Dept, with the help of their professors.
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Dell just recently announced that Gilbert F. Casellas will assume duties as Vice President of Corporate Responsibility. His office will be under Don Carty, vice chairman and chief financial officer of Dell.
Mr. Carty said:
Gil’s appointment reflects Dell’s growing commitment to global leadership around the environment, corporate involvement and to driving the democratization of technology worldwide. He and his team will oversee the heightened integration of economic, social and environmental responsibility into everything we do and ensure that the recruitment and development of diversity among our employees, customers and partners remains a cornerstone of how we do business.
The first ever Mindanao Blogging Summit will be held on Oct 27, 2007 at the 4th floor of the NCCC mall in time with the MICT. This hopes to promote blogging in Mindanao. A sling of Who’s who from the Philippine Blogging World have been invited to grace the event.
In support of this summit, Davao Exchange is hosting the Mindanao Blogging Summit’s Official Site. Check out the site for further details on how to join the summit which is open to the public but pre-registration is required.
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I was happy when I heard the news today that half of the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize was won by former US Vice President, Al Gore. The other co-winner was the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.
According to the press release, the award was given to them:
for their efforts to build up and disseminate greater knowledge about man-made climate change, and to lay the foundations for the measures that are needed to counteract such change.
