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2008 Earth Camp

2008 Earth Camp URGENT GREEN BARRAGE! A global crisis calls for ACTION! Rationale: The yearly Earth Camp is a progressive set of workshops that sustains or maintains the momentum of the environmental education for the students and teachers. This two-day activity is an intensive workshop for a specific output based process as the final product of GAME for Children Project. The conception of the "children's biodiversity pictionary in Kinamiguin" is an ambitious project to showcase the art works of the children put together into a functional resource book. The Earth Camp is a hands-on experiential workshop on eco-campaign book production as final preparation for the book design with direct production participation of the local students and teachers. The workshop in itself is the process of the grassroots participatory of environmental accountability. This is a tangible exercise with functional result as a dynamic output of id

BUY, THROW and LEAVE

This is the consumerist trend of travel which destroyed environments, displaced indigenous communities and sold bodies. how much more price we have to pay for uneducated tourists and for money devils in the tourism industry. the old money-making tricks has created a devastating lifestyle trend which has caused a planet to overheat. an average tourist would use up at least 12 kilos of waste a day and 5 gallons of water on the average... this is how much stress we cause to any place a tourist would visit... do we really think about the ill effects of carbon footprints we leave behind when we ride airplanes, buses, taxis, and jeepneys and stay in airconditioned rooms ? how much energy do we have to waste just to get a sugar boost of an ice cold coke. these are serious considerations which may require serious change of lifestyles. i learned from a research study that an alarming 3% original forest cover in the country has deminished even more. i am worried and cried for many ni