Category: junie kalaw
Maximo “Junie” Kalaw (1940-2001)
10 years since he passed away, sylvia mayuga reminds his friends, her friends on facebook. good to remember via Junie 2001, a piece i wrote in december that year for a small family publication remembering his life and death.
environment 9: sustainable devt
SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT AS SPIRITUAL AND REVOLUTIONARY PRAXIS Junie Kalaw Toward the end of this century as of the last one, dramatic changes have taken place under the impact of, among others, the industrial revolution, two world wars, struggles for political … Continue reading
environment 8: population word war
THE POPULATION WORD WAR Junie Kalaw The raging word war between Catholic Church representatives and the indomitable secretary of health on the topic of condoms as a means of addressingour pressing population problem is turning NGOs red with frustration or … Continue reading
environment 7: denr & the poor
THE DENR & SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT (Why The Poor Will Always Be With Us) Junie Kalaw In Mindanao, two years after her historic succession to the presidency, President Aquino, a very religious person, appealed for the help of the citizenry, especially institutions … Continue reading
environment 6: beyond transparency
BEYOND TRANSPARENCY Junie Kalaw The launching of the Coalition for Transparency in Government provided President Corazon Aquino an opportunity to focus on a quality of governance whose absence from the national scene has been a major impediment to honest political … Continue reading
environment 5: ormoc & security
ORMOC: TOWARD ECOLOGICAL SECURITY Junie Kalaw The Philippine environmental crisis took what is possibly its heaviest and cruelest toll on human life in Ormoc City. According to eyewitness reports by survivors, the waters had come abruptly, almost in the wink … Continue reading
environment 4: forests left
FORESTS LEFT Junie Kalaw Traditional politics dies hard. Upon Mrs. Aquino’s exit, with the convening by President Fidel V. Ramos of a new legislature and the appointment of a new secretary for the Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR), … Continue reading
environment 3: forests gone
FORESTS GONE (In Defense of Kaingineros) Junie Kalaw In 1863, after three hundred years of free access to forests for all, natives and Spaniards alike, the Inspeccion General de Montes was created by royal decree to keep track of, and … Continue reading
environment 2: state of the planet
STATE OF THE PLANET Junie Kalaw We have been blessed with a beautiful planet and a beautiful country but we are destroying it at a beastly pace. The earth’s green cover is a pre-requisite for life in this planet. It … Continue reading
environment & revolution
if junie kalaw were alive he’d be saying i-told-you-so, just like odette alcantara. junie and odette were our leading environmentalists, pioneers, who didn’t live to see the great floods wrought by ondoy & pepeng [and some dam(ned) officials] but … Continue reading