diane22 wrote on Jun 5

sweetness. i love the field trips and picnics part :)

I REALLY WISH THE ENTRANCE OF MERVILLE WAS STILL ALL TREEEEEESSS

diane22 wrote on Jun 5

i think an interesting way to add more info is for all those who are interested in joining, to do their own fact-finding and research from their own family members, older people they know, etc... and then i think the session putting all this info together would be super interesting :D

swikey wrote on Jun 5, edited on Jun 5

Sounds interesting! My friend, who used to be with Haribon, was saying that there's a part of Paranaque that has become a migration stop of egrets and terns and such. In any case, I think it's a cool project, so count me in.

dreiday wrote on Jun 5

count me in. 

meg17 wrote on Jun 5

yeah, i remember when merville access road was lined with pine trees (bea, i know it's not exactly pine, but that's the nearest i can compare it to). I'm interested in your carpool and garden idea. I've been fantasizing about having my own herb garden where i can just pick from my backyard whenever i'm cooking something italian. 

amandalapus wrote today at 6:45 PM

i'm in!! meg, my mom said the same thing about the access road since she lived here in merville as a teen. then she says the pasay gov't (being that merville is on the border of pque and pasay) took over and allowed thte mushrooming of the shanties and stores that are now there. i've always wondered what can be done about the creeks too..my dad was mpha prez once and i asked him what could be done about the creeks. aside from removing the gardbage from time to time, he basically told me it's a hopeless case because the squatters or whoever lives along the creeks will keep tossing their garbage and it flows down to us. i really don't want to believe it's entirely hopeless though. so anyhoo, yes, pls, keep me in the loop of any plans :)

bealoca wrote today at 8:17 PM

Actually, sometimes their only difference from us is that we wait for our garbage to be collected, and these are actually taken away and dumped in a landfill, behind somebody else's house. While they don't have garbage collection so they toss it. But garbage is one of our largest problems, and we are part of the problem.

Nobody knows how to deal with plastics. Making them into bags and whatnot is just a temporary fix. What happens at the end of their useful life?

It's a matter of reducing and eliminating plastics from our lives. Reusable cloth bags or baskets, refusing things with plastic packaging. I haven't reached that level yet, but it's really the only solution. Otherwise, you're indirectly always just throwing your garbage on someone else's property. The squatters are doing it directly. Plastics (even when breaking down in landfills, not just with burning) emit cancerous things into the air. Everytime you accept plastic-- even before you use it-- you're contributing to the problem. Because there is nothing at the end of the line for them.

Back to the squatters... They (and we all) have to reduce their plastic consumption and start having composting mechanisms. Things have been falling in water for so long-- logs, leaves, dead animals, etc. Now we have to deal with something that doesn't break down.

On the other hand, human and kitchen waste also goes into the creeks, because our wastewater isn't treated (if I'm not mistaken). So, it would also help to reduce the use of bleach, detergent, or chemicals (which kill life in the water), and also get your homeowner's association to maybe consider a village wastewater treatment plant to treat water before it's released in tributaries, which eventually lead into Manila Bay. Boo us!

Couldn't help but reply... Haha sorry it's long. It's just that so many problems are quite complex and we have to think about all the factors