Tag: environment
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Autodesk builds eco-friendly, sustainable offices with own software
Autodesk, Inc. (NASDAQ: ADSK) deepens its investment in sustainable operations, opening five new green office spaces this year in San Francisco, Milan, Beijing and Farnborough, UK. The company is targeting LEED certification for its new facilities, which would bring Autodesk’s total to 13 LEED-certified offices, covering 25 percent of its 1.8 million square foot real…
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Bantay Kalikasan to PCSD : Live by your name
It has been an uphill battle for Bantay Kalikasan in its efforts to keep its livelihood project in Brooke’s Point in Palawan. Not only have companies with interests in mining been bombarding broadsheet space with a myriad negative publicity directed to its Managing Director Gina Lopez, but the very organization that should have been its…
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Earthquake survival tips – what to do during an earthquake: the triangle of life theory
On March 11, 2011 an intensity 9.0 (8.9 on some reports) earthquake hit Japan’s Oshika Peninsula, the east coast of Tohoku. It was the strongest to hit Japan and one of the top five largest earthquakes in the world since seismological record-keeping began. It was followed by a tsunami with waves of up to 10…
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Who wants to live in the Philippines?
Got this in my mailbox today entitled “Prospective living in the Philippines”. Some truly hit home while some are mere exaggerations. You be the judge. Every street has a basketball court. Even doctors, lawyers and engineers are unemployed. Doctors study to become nurses for employment abroad. Students pay more money than they will earn afterwards.…