Secretariat’s Projects

OTHER than the annual celebration of Earth Day, the Secretariat also launched and ran several projects since 2007. Some of them are as follows:

1. The 10 Million Movement

The 10 Million Movement was a campaign launched during the 40th anniversary of Earth Day in 2010 with the aim of gathering 10 million commitments from Filipinos. It ran for one year and gathered more than 12 million commitments to address the environmental problems.

2. Earth Day Village – Tarp Bag Project

Earth Day Village – Tarp

Bag Project was an upcycling project for the postmarketing waste that is the tarpaulin billboard. It partnered with advertising companies and trained a group of women in Brgy. Sta. Cruz, Antipolo to cut and sew the tarpaulins into bags and other gift items.

3. Trees4Life: Tubong Pinoy Movement

TREES4Life: Tubong Pinoy Movement is an advocacy campaign for the conservation and preservation of the indigenous and endemic tree species of the Philippines. It encourages the participation of the community through livelihood activities such as gathering of indigenous seeds, propagation of seedlings and planting of trees. Likewise, TREES4Life: Tubong Pinoy Movement is a campaign to promote the program and plant a total of 10 million indigenous trees in ten years.

4. Zero Basura Olympics

The Zero Basura Olympics is an advocacy campaign towards a zero-waste Philippines.

It is a creative way to implement Republic Act

9003, also known as the

Ecological Solid Waste Management Act of 2000. The program encourages the participation of the community, local government units, and the business community not only to practice proper waste segregation but also to embed within themselves the proper practice in their day-to-day activities or operations especially in the aftermath of the Tropical Storm “Ondoy.”

5. Agos Ram Pump

The Agos Ram Pump

Project was a water for communities’ project supported by Coca Cola.

It aimed to provide water to far flung communities using hydraulic technology. This means that the water is delivered to the communities without the use of fossil fuel. EDNPI was able to install the water technology to more than 50 communities nationwide.