2025 ARAW NG KAGITINGAN: Commemorating in our small Running Way

 "For what sustained them through these months of incessant battle was a force more than physical.  It was the force of an unconquerable faith - something in the heart and soul that physical adversity and hardship could not destroy."

      - Excerpt from the Apr 9, 1942 "Bataan has Fallen" message broadcast written by Capt. Salvador P. Lopez .

FPIP CONSUELO PARK: Shinrin-Yuko in a Happy Place

In the heart of  CALABARZON is the First Philippine Industrial Park (FPIP) which is a joint venture of First Philippine Holdings  (FPH)  of the Lopez Group and Sumitomo Corporation of Japan.  Inside the over  500 hectares of  prime industrial  land are 150 locators. Collectively, these FPIP locators of varying national origin(s)  contribute US$ 3.5 Billion in export earnings to the Philippine economy   and generate  80,000  Pinoy jobs annually.   Amidst all this robust economic activity in the industrial hub, there is an oasis. 

TBR DREAM MARATHON 2025: Musings of our Newly-Minted Marathoners

 

LXXI agatur C.  71 going on 100.  

MANGROVE LOVING PENGUIN: Day 1 (Feb 4) of the Training of Trainers on Mangrove and Beach Forest Rehabilitation and Conservation

"Lectures which really teach will never be popular; lectures which are popular will never really teach."

MANGROVE LOVING PENGUIN: Celebrating WORLD WETLANDS DAY by Learning from the "Mother of Mangroves."

 "Every choice we make can be a celebration of the world we want."

 Feb 2 is World Wetlands Day.  It is has been that way since 1997.  It is a United Nations International Day since 2022.