tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-83957532012-06-03T10:50:11.015+08:00Baguio-QuezonWas: a blog about Baguio City and Dolores, Quezon in the Philippines. Now: weekend pursuits, hobbies, and interests.Nick Ballesteroshttps://profiles.google.com/102230086458952412430noreply@blogger.comBlogger447125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8395753.post-42621723416091645402012-05-26T06:00:00.000+08:002012-05-26T06:00:01.211+08:00Awit ng mga PunoNick Ballesteroshttps://profiles.google.com/102230086458952412430noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8395753.post-60867706661854318642012-05-24T17:57:00.000+08:002012-05-24T17:57:18.555+08:00Luneta Hill MassacreNick Ballesteroshttps://profiles.google.com/102230086458952412430noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8395753.post-22717996258256997732012-05-23T18:28:00.000+08:002012-05-23T18:28:00.970+08:00Baguio City - 100 Years in the MakingActually, it would now be 103 years as Baguio celebrated its centenary in 2009... regrettably we were already out of the country a year before that. It would have been great to be there as well. I missed the SLU celebrations as well :-(
Nick Ballesteroshttps://profiles.google.com/102230086458952412430noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8395753.post-9026131029942769822012-05-11T12:57:00.003+08:002012-05-11T12:57:50.092+08:00Why we need trees and not bigger mallsNick Ballesteroshttps://profiles.google.com/102230086458952412430noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8395753.post-59265772546416597282012-05-10T18:31:00.003+08:002012-05-10T18:36:15.231+08:00The end of this tree's story
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Source: salientfindingsNick Ballesteroshttps://profiles.google.com/102230086458952412430noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8395753.post-64845760361863665152012-05-08T07:00:00.000+08:002012-05-08T07:00:03.451+08:00Igorots slaughter Japs in Bataan's Bloodiest Clash
Pittsburgh Post Gazette (Feb.23,1942 p.1 cont. p.4)
Credit to: Julius PanayoNick Ballesteroshttps://profiles.google.com/102230086458952412430noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8395753.post-81608813802599185432012-05-06T07:31:00.000+08:002012-05-06T07:31:12.498+08:00Enlightenment on the Issue at SLUNick Ballesteroshttps://profiles.google.com/102230086458952412430noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8395753.post-14023957686882296692012-05-04T12:59:00.003+08:002012-05-04T12:59:34.909+08:00What is earth-balling?Take note: SM has tagged a tree #88 due for earthballing. Its circumference is about 3 adults holding hands wide, and is estimated to be about 100 years old.
MANILA, Philippines - “Earth-balling” has repeatedly surfaced in the news recently, but few know what exactly it entails – or why it has been associated with trees and the environment.
SM Baguio started earth-balling trees from a Nick Ballesteroshttps://profiles.google.com/102230086458952412430noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8395753.post-45451061182427264992012-04-25T13:22:00.002+08:002012-04-25T13:22:22.889+08:00SM Baguio security guards photograph protestersAt SM Baguio, security guards don't just inspect bags of people entering the mall as part of their daily routine.
Nowadays, they also take pictures of protesters rallying against the mall's plan to remove more than 100 trees in Luneta Hill to pave the way for the construction of a parking lot and entertainment plaza.
"Sige lang! Kunan nyo lang kami at ipakita nyo sa mga boss nyo na marami rito!Nick Ballesteroshttps://profiles.google.com/102230086458952412430noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8395753.post-79655785461307397452012-04-24T17:14:00.004+08:002012-04-24T17:14:57.086+08:00EARTH-BALLING, Misunderstood and Wrongly-Practiced by SMby Michael A. Michaelbryant Bengwayan
Definition
Earth-balling or Earth and Burlapping is a practice of transferring trees that has grown beyond the seedling stage, often three feet high (having a trunk diameter of less than 5 inches or 13 cm.t chest level). It is often done in nurseries, not in natural-growth areas. The objective is to save the roots of the tree so that these are planted Nick Ballesteroshttps://profiles.google.com/102230086458952412430noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8395753.post-60011471667125783412012-04-20T12:41:00.001+08:002012-04-20T12:41:35.864+08:00Dong Cut the Trees!
Dong Abay Live!
An Earth Day Jam!
Saturday April 21 6PM
UP Baguio Auditorium
Free eventNick Ballesteroshttps://profiles.google.com/102230086458952412430noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8395753.post-76130593591729882192012-04-20T12:24:00.000+08:002012-04-20T12:35:37.459+08:00Join the 1st Baguio Environmental Summit
Theme: "Fight for our Land, Life, and Rights! In Harmony with Nature and People's Well Being"
April 22 (Earth Day)
8.30AM - 6.00PM
UPB Auditorium
Baguio Environmental Summit
April 23
9.00AM
Pine Trees of the World / Lions Club Park
Tree Planting
Seedling to be provided by Cordillera Ecological Center
Bring your own cleaning / digging tools. Picnic after planting (potluck)
April 24
8.30AM -Nick Ballesteroshttps://profiles.google.com/102230086458952412430noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8395753.post-34253709266362785172012-04-20T12:21:00.002+08:002012-04-20T12:21:29.593+08:00What is Baguio without the pine trees?SM is quickly earning a reputation as a bully. Nowhere is this more evident than in the case of hundreds of pine trees it wants to cut or ball in its property in Baguio. SM wants to put a parking lot in the place where the pine trees are. Baguio residents and environmentalists everywhere are outraged. Cut mature pine trees to give way to a parking lot? In other countries, parking lots and other Nick Ballesteroshttps://profiles.google.com/102230086458952412430noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8395753.post-85450810104449052732012-04-19T20:21:00.000+08:002012-04-19T20:21:35.694+08:00Luneta Hill - scene of the crimeTime and again, SM said that they are not killing the trees, they are simply earthballing and transferring them. And they are in close coordination with DENR and they have experts for this sort of thing. SM started the procedure on the night of 10 April 2012.
Let the photos decide.
Thanks to Gideon Omero for the permission to post these.
One very effective way to kill a tree - CUT the Nick Ballesteroshttps://profiles.google.com/102230086458952412430noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8395753.post-49280991260483543522012-04-17T18:44:00.000+08:002012-04-17T18:44:03.955+08:00Grupong tutol sa pagtatanggal ng mga puno sa SM Baguio, nagprotesta sa SM MegamallNick Ballesteroshttps://profiles.google.com/102230086458952412430noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8395753.post-71326670143989224912012-04-17T18:38:00.001+08:002012-04-17T18:38:35.065+08:00Megamall Flash Mob "Dont Cut the Trees"
Protesters, mostly university students, staged a lightning rally also known as a "flash mob" inside the SM Megamall Friday evening to register their support for efforts by residents of Baguio City to stop plans by the shopping mall firm to uproot 182 pine trees to make way for an extension building.
Copyright 2012 Luis LiwanagNick Ballesteroshttps://profiles.google.com/102230086458952412430noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8395753.post-61447716377993400212012-04-17T18:34:00.002+08:002012-04-17T18:34:43.399+08:00Robredo fails to break SM-protesters stalemateMANILA, Philippines - Interior Secretary Jesse Robredo played referee on Monday, April 16, in a dialogue among parties fighting over the cutting and earth-balling of trees to make way for an expansion project of SM Baguio.
No less than Hans Sy, SM Prime Holdings president, attended the dialogue to rebut the accusations hurled at his company. Hans Sy is a son of the Philippines's richest man andNick Ballesteroshttps://profiles.google.com/102230086458952412430noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8395753.post-92190739649829619942012-04-17T18:26:00.002+08:002012-04-17T18:26:59.260+08:00People Power Baguio vs SMIn anger and frustration, thousands of Baguio residents and students marched to SM, fueled by the knowledge that public officials like the mayor, some city councilors and the whole of DENR just stood by as 40 fully grown alnus japonica and pine trees were massacred by SM.
(Photo by Dean Cuanso. source: Boycott SM Malls on Facebook. Photo dated 15 April 2012)Nick Ballesteroshttps://profiles.google.com/102230086458952412430noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8395753.post-31767703519354116532012-04-14T06:47:00.005+08:002012-04-14T06:47:57.339+08:00Court extends SM Baguio TEPOMANILA, Philippines - Not only for 3 days but until their complaint is heard. Baguio protesters scored another legal victory in their fight to save trees that will be cut to give way to an SM mall's parking facility and entertainment plaza in the country's summer capital.
At 5 pm on Friday, April 13, Judge Antonio Estevis, presiding judge of the environmental court of the Baguio Regional Trial Nick Ballesteroshttps://profiles.google.com/102230086458952412430noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8395753.post-63334226126620724412012-04-14T06:45:00.000+08:002012-04-14T06:45:16.184+08:00SM Baguio Mall Expansion project dialogue setDEPARTMENT of Interior and Local Government (DILG) Secretary Jesse Robredo said Thursday SM management, DILG, the City Government of Baguio and environmental groups in the city will meet on April 16.
The meeting to be held at the National Police Commission office in Makati aims to resolve issues regarding the mall giant’s expansion project.
Robredo also revealed the desire of the president of Nick Ballesteroshttps://profiles.google.com/102230086458952412430noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8395753.post-72196312458258130232012-04-13T20:53:00.003+08:002012-04-13T20:53:38.564+08:00Protesters 'occupy' SM MegamallMANILA, Philippines - The protest movement to save the tress that will be cut in the Summer Capital of the PHilippines has reached Metro Manila, the country's capital.
Protesters held a lightning rally in SM Megamall on Friday night, April 13, in support of the people in Baguio who are opposing the cutting of 182 trees on Luneta Hill to pave the way for SM Baguio's new parking facility and an Nick Ballesteroshttps://profiles.google.com/102230086458952412430noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8395753.post-81660689100736078152012-04-13T20:06:00.000+08:002012-04-13T20:06:08.683+08:00PNoy orders review of construction in Baguio, BoracayMANILA, Philippines - The Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) is monitoring SM City Baguio's compliance with a 72-hour Temporary Environmental Protection Order (TEPO) from the court which stopped the retail giant from uprooting 182 trees in its property.
Environment Secretary Ramon Paje said he has sent a representative to look into any attempt to defy the court order. DespiteNick Ballesteroshttps://profiles.google.com/102230086458952412430noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8395753.post-70908935759705444722012-04-13T12:43:00.001+08:002012-04-13T12:43:16.280+08:00True LiesAfter shedding off true colors of prioritizing profit that benefit only them over a green forest that benefits every living thing that breathes, they were recently found out to be spreading true lies. After all, what proponent SM had been saying about having “teamed up with the US Green Building Council” has been denied by Jennevine Kwan, USGBC Vice President for International Operations.
This Nick Ballesteroshttps://profiles.google.com/102230086458952412430noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8395753.post-88652242130638945822012-04-13T12:35:00.001+08:002012-04-13T12:35:53.485+08:00Today's quote is brought to you by the Department of ENVIRONMENT & NATURAL RESOURCES Secretary
Wow, what logic!Nick Ballesteroshttps://profiles.google.com/102230086458952412430noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8395753.post-37029035808622865862012-04-13T10:27:00.004+08:002012-04-13T10:27:46.953+08:00Baguio folk win skirmish vs SM as mall bows to TEPOBAGUIO CITY, Philippines -- (UPDATE - 8:08 p.m.) Residents of Baguio City opposed to the removal of 182 trees by SM scored an early win after the mall acceded Wednesday to a court-issued Temporary Environmental Protection Order that it had earlier refused to accept.
Baguio residents had asked for the TEPO after the mall began removing the trees Sunday night.
The TEPO was served on April 10 but Nick Ballesteroshttps://profiles.google.com/102230086458952412430noreply@blogger.com0