LIBONA, Bukidnon (MindaNews / 06 April) — Do the people of Malaybalay City know that there is a City Ordinance No. 523 Series of 2003, otherwise known as the Malaybalay City Environment Code, that legally prohibits mining activities? As amended,
On 13 March 2025, I posted on my FB wall a very short article on “Conscience and Character” together with a photo of Rappler’s report on the collated statistics of the victims of former President Rodrigo Roa Duterte’s (FPRRD’s) extra-judicial
1st of five parts (Third talk delivered at the annual holy retreat of the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of the Philippines at the Monastery of the Transfiguration in Malaybalay City on the theme “Synod Spirituality: Embracing Ecology in the Light of
Part 2 (This is the second part of the presentation of Fr. Reynaldo D. Raluto on “Integral Ecology Ministry in Mindanao Context” at the 17 th Mindanao-Sulu Pastoral Conference in Cagayan de Oro City on November 7 to 10, 2022)
CAGAYAN DE ORO CITY (MindaNews / 18 September) — Based on Thomas Berry’s account of the Universe Story, the birth of ecological age arguably happened in 1968, when the astronauts of the Apollo 8 mission documented their unique experience of
Last of two parts | Read Part 1 When Rivers are Exploited for Agri-business Interests CAGAYAN DE ORO CITY (MindaNews / 10 June) – From an economic perspective, the water resources in Bukidnon are a blessing. In fact, as of
MINDAVIEWS INTEGRAL ECOLOGY: The Ecological Services of Bukidnon Rivers for Mindanao By Fr. Reynaldo D. Raluto 1st of two parts | Read Part 2 CAGAYAN DE ORO CITY (MindaNews / 9 June) – To join the Department of Environment and
CAGAYAN DE ORO CITY (MindaNews/31 Aug) — I grew up in Bukidnon, a land-locked Province of Mindanao, where about 70 percent of the land area has an altitude of 500 meters above sea level. My “sweet Bukidnon home,” as the
CAGAYAN DE ORO CITY (MindaNews/16 March) — It has been asserted that Jorge Mario Cardinal Bergoglio, now Pope Francis I, defies the stereotype classification. He could be labeled as “doctrinally conservative” when it comes to social issues yet, according to
CAGAYAN DE ORO CITY (MindaNews/9 January) – Having crossed the sustainable limit of deforestation in the late 1940s, Filipinos gradually felt the deprivation of the original “ecosystem services” of the forests they used to enjoy. Indeed, due to severe deforestation, the present ecological state of the Philippine environment is helplessly vulnerable to various forms of natural disasters. We suffer from the bad ecological effects of deforestation. We are beginning to realize that the forest is a “focal ecosystem” whose destruction would necessarily affect all other ecosystems.
CAGAYAN DE ORO CITY (MindaNews/08 January) — I do not want to understand the tragic event of typhoon “Sendong” and other ecological disasters either as the will of God or as simply part of the fate of the Filipinos whose lives have always been punctuated by a struggle to survive the devastating plagues of nature. I firmly believe that the evils of ecological disaster could not purely be attributed to the natural consequences of our evolutionary world. They also have human causes which can be mitigated. Many of them are anthropogenic and human-induced factors which can be overcome.
