ABS-CBN Tao Po: “Grupo ng mga kababaihan nagsusulong para magkakuryente sa isla ng Suluan sa Eastern Samar”
The island of Sulu-an in Eastern Samar only receives eight hours of electricity each day, negatively impacting the daily lives of its residents. Despite these limitations, women on the island are turning to #SolarPower to help bring light to their community through the group Sulong Sulu-an. Learn more about how #RenewableEnergy is helping Sulu-an island in this feature by ABS-CBN's Tao Po, which also features ICSC RE-Charge Pilipinas Coordinator Orlando Quesada.
Media is essential with or without COVID-19
MANILA, 7 May 2020 – Responding to the shutdown of ABS-CBN last Tuesday, Renato Redentor Constantino, executive director of the Institute for Climate and Sustainable Cities, said: “We have always considered media as part of a category that's been made popular today by the pandemic: media performs essential work. Media is essential with or without our current setting, just as press freedom is fundamental to any society that values democracy. This freedom is as vital to society as oxygen is to a human being, with or without an emergency. “The renewal of the franchise granted to ABS-CBN is not [...]