In January 2020, companies affiliated with the Philippine Alliance for Recycling and Materials Sustainability (PARMS) joined the “Zero Waste to Nature: Ambisyon 2030” (ZWTN 2030). In doing so, they pledged to observe more sustainable ways so that, at the turn of the decade, they can truly achieve the vision of a zero waste Philippines. Ambisyon…
In recent years, the world woke up to the alarming reality that the earth is ailing, and that this problem has been brought about by our own hands. Unsustainable practices, including the mismanagement of plastic waste, has led to a global and local challenge for everyone. The Philippines alone generates 2.7 million tons of plastic…
If there’s one good thing that has come out of this pandemic, it’s that it allowed people to get in touch with their inner chefs. It even gave rise to many entrepreneurs who got into the food business, offering their gastronomic goods on social media. It’s not an easy thing. With lots of sumptuous options…
Filipinos living or working abroad never faltered in their commitment to send more money back home despite the prolonged COVID-19 pandemic, jacking up cash remittances to the Philippines to a fresh high of $31.4 billion in 2021. In a statement on Tuesday, the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP) said cash remittances coursed through banks rose…
The rate of increase in the prices of basic goods and services in the Philippines settled at 3 percent year-on-year in January, slowing down for the fifth month in a row from 4.4 percent last August through 3.2 percent in December, based on 2018 prices of consumer goods. Reckoned with the previous base year of…