In events leading leading up to her appearance at the UN Summit, we all watched as she called on our world leaders to do something now.
"We are not just some young people skipping school," she told thousands of school strikers in Manhattan, on a day when millions around the world demonstrated for action. "We are a wave of change. Together, we are unstoppable."
Back home in the Philippines we proudly wave our own flags in support - on many fronts.
Up north in the city of Baguio, Padmapani Lim Perez is project lead at Agam International.
An anthropologist by training and a writer by heart, Padma’s poems and essays have been anthologized in various Philippine publications, including Agam: Filipino Narratives on Climate Change.
She authored Green Entanglements: Nature Conservation and Indigenous Peoples’ Rights in Indonesia and the Philippines (2018), and Shelah Goes to a Da-ngah (2016), a children’s book.
She received her doctorate in anthropology from the Faculty of Social Sciences at Leiden University, Netherlands, and currently serves as a research fellow at Far Eastern University in Manila.
She received her doctorate in anthropology from the Faculty of Social Sciences at Leiden University, Netherlands, and currently serves as a research fellow at Far Eastern University in Manila.
Listen to the recently launched Agam the Climate podcast or follow The Agam Agenda on Facebook.
In the island of Cebu, Rosalie Lopez Fuentes is a certified EcoBricks trainer, traveling the country conducting training workshops educate communities in proper management in their plastic pollution and solid waste management problems and its proper utilization.
She is program director of LEAD, Inc. and consultant at the EU-funded SMART Cebu Project on "green growth for business" - with over 20 years experience in organization development, business management, human resource development and life coaching.
Turning Cebu's huge furniture and decor industry into an eco-sustainable production that markets and exports green products to Europe and Asia.
In our hometown of Negros Island, eco farmers band together to create worthy organizations like Wala Usik and SWEEP. Powered by young mom, Kaila Ledesma Trebol, conservation trustee and creative designer.
Wala Usik is a zero-waste, nonprofit social enterprise with its main branch in Bacolod and eight sari-sari stores in Negros Island. Projects put together by the team behind Danjugan Island and @sweep.ph.
SWEEP or Sea Waste Education to Eradicate Plastic aims to reduce the flow of plastic into the ocean. It is a USAID project based in Negros Island.
Proud to do our bit in keeping our islands as green as we can. Wake up world! “For more than 30 years, the science has been crystal clear. How dare you look away?” Shame! Shame! Shame!
Our hope and our future lie with these committed and empowering women.
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