THE LASALLIAN RHEIMS The Academy of Saint John’s Official Student Publication VOL. 19 ISSUE NO. 1
ENVI-CARE WEBINAR: Environmental speaker Marlon Pareja lectures students on the importance of the environment, its problems, and environmental care. The symposium on environmental care was conducted in conjunction with this School Year’s Environmental Care Week.
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the worsening of climate e La Salle University – Dasmarichange. nas Associate Professor Mr. Marlon Pareja was invited by the “Number one, personal behavior Academy of Saint John to conchange. ‘Anong pwede kong magawa to duct a Symposium on Environreduce my impact’...Number two, let’s mental Care Protection for Grades work for policy changes. Ipaglaban din 4-12 students, September 30. natin yung iba, lalo na yung walang boses…Number three, mag-aral tayong During the webinar, Pareja highmabuti. So when we become leaders, lighted the importance of the environwe can be the change that we want ment, linking it to the production of to see in the world,” he said. food, medicine, and other materials, air and water purification, climate modiAt the end of the symposium, Pareja fication, disaster risk reduction, ecoanswered several questions from student nomic value, and even our social/cullisteners. Asked for ways on how to recytural value and language. cle plastics and how to properly dispose of plastics to prevent air pollution caused “To summarize why the environby incineration, Pareja said, “since plasment is important, it’s because it gives tics are not naturally occurring, we canus home, number 1. It provides us mednot return it to the environment.” icine, timber, and other sources of material. It has a disaster risk reduction po“The best solution is to really elimtential, and it can modify climate. It has inate the use of plastic,” he said. an economic value, and it has social and cultural value,” Pareja said. “Would there be a possibility that someday we can achieve zero plastic? “So when we ask ourselves, ‘how Yes, it’s a possibility. But if you’re goimportant to us is the environment?’, ing to ask me the probability now, it’s it’s basically who we are,” he added. a long way ahead. We cannot just focus on recycling and reusing, we rePareja also showed different enally need to focus on reducing and vironmental problems and gave rethinking as well.” [R] ways on how students can mitigate THE LASALLIAN RHEIMS
Ka-Li-Kasan Launches Contests for ECW ETHAN NIVERA
The Kabataang Linkod at Kasanga (Ka-Li-Kasan) spear-
headed this year’s Environmental Care Week, conducting various contests from September 26 to September 30. The contests were a Slogan Making contest with the theme “Protect Earth, Protect Life” for Grades 10-12, and a Collage Making contest with the theme “My Ideal Environment” for Grades 7-9. Additionally, higher level students competed in Recycling contest “A Bird Feeder”, and the lower level students were able to enjoy an Interpretative Dance contest with the theme “Dance and Science: A Graceful Partnership for Change!“. Lastly, “Animal Habitat” Diorama and “UnderWater World” Diorama contests were enjoyed by kinder and nursery students respectively. Ka-Li-Kasan’s Auditor, Quir Alfornon, said the youth “are critical to the preservation of our environment” and gave examples on how children can contribute to saving nature. “Students nowadays are quick learners, so we should teach them things that will benefit everyone in society. For example, we can propose a project that helps recycle plastic waste and transform it into something useful, such as eco bags. When it comes to these types of activities, the youth are very creative and adept, which we can take advantage of,” Alfornon said. Kabataang Linkod at Kasanga is a student organization which aims to raise environmental awareness and protection to the ASJ community. [R]
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