GreenBucks

A belatedly purchased green bag was what we got when we went to SM Clark’s Hypermarket last Sunday . No, did not think twice about getting the bag even if there a big logo of Unilever Philippines on it.

There have been many news/press releases about using these cloth bags, as an alternative to the use of plastic bags.

The use of green bags has many benefits. Click here to read more about the benefits, not just as an alternative use to plastic bags but as an answer to vital environmental issues. But then again, these are one and the same.

This practice of using the plastic bag has to change. In Baguio City, they are encouraging people to use the “bayong” or a woven buri bag to be used when going to the market. This bayong is handy even if produce from the wet section are purchased. There is an “I am not plastic” bag here in the Philippines that is earth-friendly that can be used too, to minimize the use of plastic.

Click here to read about the Green Bag in America, the Green Bag in Australia and other GreenBag Reusable Bags.

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The so-called “crying boy” or “probinsiyanong Intsik” or better known as Jun Lozada, the Senate’s current star witness for the foiled ZTE-NBN deal is a contradiction of sorts. He is a mystery to me, not that I want to unravel everything and understand everything about him. He is a good storyteller, a story weaver.

There were some things that Jun Lozada said that touched my heart, especially about the Aetas who didn’t want to sell the guavas because these were for the birds.

He also said this memorable paragraph when replying to some “small-time” graft practices by a senator who herself is far, very far from perfect and whose statements and stand on issues can be taken out of context depending upon the price agreed upon:

I would admit to that. I would admit in public and to the nation that there are certain things that I did in my life that upon reflection I would lose some respect to myself but all the remaining respect I have in myself, madam, I don’t want to lose. I’d like whatever respect I have in myself to keep it. If I go along with this NBN, I guess I’m going to lose it all. I’m afraid I’m going to lose my soul. Yes, I have to admit to that. Mea culpa

I don’t want to really dwell on the figures he has been talking about as part of the package of since I wouldn’t be able to imagine the enormity of it. I can’t even begin to imagine how much money that would be. They could have two or three lifetimes but they wouldn’t be able to spend all those money. The thing is, they couldn’t even buy Heaven where they can go to to avoid being burned in hell.

Please click here to read the Transcript of Statement made last February 7, 2008 at 2am that made All the President’s Men, Cabinet Secretaries, Key Political figures and Family Members scrambling to put back the broken pieces of the jigsaw puzzle that ought to not have been broken. They are after all, key figures too in a deal gone bad.

MODERATE the GREED.

ALL THE PRESIDENT’S MEN

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