Friday, 24 February 2012 02:00

Written by Neric Acosta

Tags: Free Corner

We met last week with Duane Silverstein, Executive Director of a globally-recognized conservation group Seacology, over a lovely dinner hosted by businesswoman Doris Magsaysay Ho.  Our party of 15 learned that Silverstein once headed the Goldman Environmental Prize, dubbed the “Nobel Prize of the Environment” by National Geographic and news media around the world – plus being an avid diver and former comedy writer for celebrity Joan Rivers.  But more importantly, we were told of Seacology’s amazing, trail-blazing conservation projects with island communities around the world.

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Friday, 28 October 2011 02:01

Written by Neric Acosta

Tags: Free Corner

It always begins with a spark, that turns into a flame, and smolders into a burning fire, and with tinder, spreads into a conflagration.  Social movements of the like we see now sweeping across the Arab world, or in the Occupy Movement that batters Wall Street’s ‘fortress of capitalism’ and inspires similar mass actions in capitals around the world, speak to that growing democratic, if revolutionary, impulse that begins with germs of discontent and flowers into a vast network or spirit of dissent and hope.  Some deride such movements to be fleeting or fickle occurrences, or dismiss them as anarchic, center-less and unsustainable.

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