Good job SM City Cebu- BUT

Seeing my groceries being put in a paper bag, for the first time, is exhilarating. That happened last night when I went to buy groceries at SM City Cebu. I felt proud for SM for initiating the move to lessen plastic and other cellophane products.

But-

I was confused when they put the bags over the other. I thought they were saving mother earth with those. They told me one bag could not support the groceries because the ones they were using were too thin. I think it defeated the purpose. I can see more trees being cut down to make those bags.

And then this bagging thing only happens every Wednesdays.

I sighed.

Ulannnnnn!

Ulan, sinong di mapasayaw ng ulan (Rain, who would not dance in the rain?)- goes the song by Bamboo.

And indeed, after a long time waiting for rain, who would not?

The gray skies is after all a welcome relief and not a sign of distress. The rain seems a relief from few months of heat. Thank God! Goodbye blue skies. Goodbye sun.

But wait- isn't it supposed to be summer?

Ecological lessons once more

This medieval church from the Catalonian village of Sant Roma in Spain (above picture) emerged after decades of submersion in a dam project. Due to extreme drought, the water in the dam were gone and the old village emerges once more. News source and pic 

Such is the case also in the town of Potozi, Venezuela (pictured above), several hundreds of miles away from Spain when the water receded from the dam project, several mementos of a town emerged like a ghost haunting the older generation back. News source , pic source 

Meanwhile, the Magat River somewhere up north in the Philippines had people scrambling to save what is left of their fishpens due to the sudden drop of its water levels. News source 

Now let's review our lessons in ecology. Again.