Popular engagement
Greenpeace is mobilizing the power of young people in order to amplify the appeal and necessity of individual action. Greenpeace is also working with celebrities to drum up support for renewable energy through a campaign called Star Power for Clean Power, a project that demands that 10 percent of our country's power must come from the sun, the wind and modern biomass by the year 2010.
Numerous open boat days are also scheduled to give universities and schools the chance to go on guided tours of the Rainbow Warrior in Manila, Puerto Princesa, Iloilo City and Bacolod City to learn more about Greenpeace campaigns and to meet the ship's multinational crew, the international team of Greenpeace campaigners and volunteers who will be taking on the biggest polluters and perpetrators of global warming during the tour. The Asian Energy Revolution ship tour in the Philippines means plenty of adventure and stunning contrasts at sea and on land. It is a fantastic opportunity to show young people that change is so very much necessary and possible.
Philippine world heritage sites
The Rainbow Warrior's first stop in the Philippines will be on October 28 in the Palawan city of Puerto Princesa. A warm welcome by the city government is planned for the Warrior and its crew of international campaigners, who will play host and guide to Palawan students, professionals and families who wish to tour the environmental campaign ship while it is docked in Puerto Princesa.
The international campaigners of Greenpeace will also visit Puerto Princesa's underground river and cave (also known as St. Paul Subterranean River) on Oct. 28 to install renewable energy systems in the coastal station that serves as a jumping pad to the vital tourist destination.
The underground river St Paul is a major source of pride and income for Palawan and is, like the Tubbataha reef, a UNESCO site. Climate impacts to St Paul's karst and cave system are expected to be potentially catastrophic. Caves and karst areas hold a huge amount of information that has remained undocumented. Increases in rainfall or rising sea levels will forever damage extremely fragile and endemic fauna in St. Paul and will probably make them extinct as cave fauna are very rare and are limited in number. Just recently, a significant number of unidentified life forms were discovered in the St. Paul subterranean.
Tubbataha dive
From Oct. 31 to Nov. 1, Greenpeace will stage a three-day dive at the world-famous Tubbataha coral reef, another world heritage site, where the organization and its friends and regional media will bear witness to what is at stake if climate change worsens.
Coral reefs are among the ecosystems most vulnerable to global warming. In Southeast Asia and the Pacific, Coral bleaching events are set to increase in frequency and intensity if greenhouse gas emissions increase unabated. Corals tend to die in great numbers immediately following coral bleaching events.
Considered as one of the most diverse habitats in the marine tropics, the Philippines is home to 488 coral species out of the 500 known coral species worldwide. Over a third of the 2,300 known fish species in the Philippines are reef-associated. According to the renowned coral reef expert, Dr. Ove Hoegh-Guldberg, untrammeled global warming can spell "catastrophe for tropical marine ecosystems everywhere", with bleaching events "very likely" occurring annually within three decades and events as severe as the 1998 episode possibly becoming commonplace inside twenty years. The 1990s was the warmest decade in recorded history and 1998 was the hottest year of all.
Jampacked with exciting, colorful events
The close to three-week stop of the Warrior in the Philippines is jam-packed with exciting events. Universities, children's schools, celebrities and scores of environmental organizations are avidly awaiting the arrival of the Greenpeace ship and the beginning of its classic high-profile campaigns in the country.
The tour of the Warrior will cover Palawan, Manila, and includes two day stops in Iloilo (Nov. 16 and 17) - home to the most rapidly growing environmental movement in the Philippines - and Negros Occidental (on Nov. 18 and 19), the first province in the country to declare that it will go for 100 percent renewable energy-led development.
In Iloilo, a live, combo-powered traditional "baile" - or town dance - is planned on the evening of the 17th, with the participation of hundreds from towns in the province. The dance is in celebration of the victories of towns in Iloilo that have successfully rejected proposals for the construction of coal-fired power plants and also to empower those currently facing the threat of coal-based power stations.
On Nov. 19 in Pulupandan, a local sail-boat regatta race is in the offing to celebrate a town from which the first windfarm in the Visayas will be built. Sailboats will represent their barangays for the honor of being named the fastest sailboat in the town - or the best to read and harness the wind - and the pride winning for their village a renewable energy system.
Greenpeace is mobilizing the power of young people in order to amplify the appeal and necessity of individual action. Greenpeace is also working with celebrities to drum up support for renewable energy through a campaign called Star Power for Clean Power, a project that demands that 10 percent of our country's power must come from the sun, the wind and modern biomass by the year 2010.
Numerous open boat days are also scheduled to give universities and schools the chance to go on guided tours of the Rainbow Warrior in Manila, Puerto Princesa, Iloilo City and Bacolod City to learn more about Greenpeace campaigns and to meet the ship's multinational crew, the international team of Greenpeace campaigners and volunteers who will be taking on the biggest polluters and perpetrators of global warming during the tour. The Asian Energy Revolution ship tour in the Philippines means plenty of adventure and stunning contrasts at sea and on land. It is a fantastic opportunity to show young people that change is so very much necessary and possible.
Philippine world heritage sites
The Rainbow Warrior's first stop in the Philippines will be on October 28 in the Palawan city of Puerto Princesa. A warm welcome by the city government is planned for the Warrior and its crew of international campaigners, who will play host and guide to Palawan students, professionals and families who wish to tour the environmental campaign ship while it is docked in Puerto Princesa.
The international campaigners of Greenpeace will also visit Puerto Princesa's underground river and cave (also known as St. Paul Subterranean River) on Oct. 28 to install renewable energy systems in the coastal station that serves as a jumping pad to the vital tourist destination.
The underground river St Paul is a major source of pride and income for Palawan and is, like the Tubbataha reef, a UNESCO site. Climate impacts to St Paul's karst and cave system are expected to be potentially catastrophic. Caves and karst areas hold a huge amount of information that has remained undocumented. Increases in rainfall or rising sea levels will forever damage extremely fragile and endemic fauna in St. Paul and will probably make them extinct as cave fauna are very rare and are limited in number. Just recently, a significant number of unidentified life forms were discovered in the St. Paul subterranean.
Tubbataha dive
From Oct. 31 to Nov. 1, Greenpeace will stage a three-day dive at the world-famous Tubbataha coral reef, another world heritage site, where the organization and its friends and regional media will bear witness to what is at stake if climate change worsens.
Coral reefs are among the ecosystems most vulnerable to global warming. In Southeast Asia and the Pacific, Coral bleaching events are set to increase in frequency and intensity if greenhouse gas emissions increase unabated. Corals tend to die in great numbers immediately following coral bleaching events.
Considered as one of the most diverse habitats in the marine tropics, the Philippines is home to 488 coral species out of the 500 known coral species worldwide. Over a third of the 2,300 known fish species in the Philippines are reef-associated. According to the renowned coral reef expert, Dr. Ove Hoegh-Guldberg, untrammeled global warming can spell "catastrophe for tropical marine ecosystems everywhere", with bleaching events "very likely" occurring annually within three decades and events as severe as the 1998 episode possibly becoming commonplace inside twenty years. The 1990s was the warmest decade in recorded history and 1998 was the hottest year of all.
Jampacked with exciting, colorful events
The close to three-week stop of the Warrior in the Philippines is jam-packed with exciting events. Universities, children's schools, celebrities and scores of environmental organizations are avidly awaiting the arrival of the Greenpeace ship and the beginning of its classic high-profile campaigns in the country.
The tour of the Warrior will cover Palawan, Manila, and includes two day stops in Iloilo (Nov. 16 and 17) - home to the most rapidly growing environmental movement in the Philippines - and Negros Occidental (on Nov. 18 and 19), the first province in the country to declare that it will go for 100 percent renewable energy-led development.
In Iloilo, a live, combo-powered traditional "baile" - or town dance - is planned on the evening of the 17th, with the participation of hundreds from towns in the province. The dance is in celebration of the victories of towns in Iloilo that have successfully rejected proposals for the construction of coal-fired power plants and also to empower those currently facing the threat of coal-based power stations.
On Nov. 19 in Pulupandan, a local sail-boat regatta race is in the offing to celebrate a town from which the first windfarm in the Visayas will be built. Sailboats will represent their barangays for the honor of being named the fastest sailboat in the town - or the best to read and harness the wind - and the pride winning for their village a renewable energy system.
Star Power for Clean Power
JayR
Despite his insane schedule, JayR still found time to support the Greenpeace campaign for clean energy. In a 15-second video he recorded for the international environmental group, JayR called on his fans to support Greenpeace and clean energy.
