MALOLOS CITY—Environmental protection gained another boost
as leading universities in the province spearhead the first in a series of
summits for the care, protection and nurture of the Environment.
Dubbed as “Ora Mismo”, the summit will be held at the Barasoain Center
for Innovate Education (BarCIE) at the La Consolacion University of the Philippines
(LaCUP) campus here on May 15 to 17.
Spearhead by the Sentro ng Edukasyon Para sa Ekonomiya at
Kalikasan (SEEK) of the Bulacan State University (BulSU) and complemented by
the LaCUP’s Saint Augustine International Institute for Justice and Peace
(SAIIJ), the summit is expected to draw more than 100 participants from the
academe, local government units (LGU) environmental advocacy groups.
This came as regional offices of the Department of Education
(DepEd), Commission on Higher Education (CHED) and the Department of Interior
and Local Government (DILG) issued separate memorandums encouraging educators
and LGU officials participation in the three day summit workshop.
Marwin Dela Cruz, the director of SEEK said the summit was
aimed at opening a venue for dialogue for members of the academe in order to
develop honest to goodness measures and programs for the protection of the
environment.
“We also want to organize a strong and united academe that
will initiate course of action on issues of environment and sustainability,” he
said adding that members of the academe must harness and pool resources
together.
He said,” it is about time for the academe to make its stand
on the issue of the environment because we have been silent for a long time.
Dela Cruz said that knowledge gain in the series of summits
they will hold can later be integrated to school’s curriculum.
“If we can integrate environmental protection and
conservation to our courses and curriculum, we can mitigate disasters and
easily adapt to the threats of climate change,” he said.
The summit will be keynoted by Dr. Particia Licuanan of CHED
followed by others experts like Monsignor Pablo David, the auxiliary bishop of
the archdiocese of San Fernando
in Pampanga; Director Lormelyn Claudio of the Environmental Management Bureau
(EMB).
Also invited as resource persons are Dr. Catalino Rivera of
the Lyceum of Northwestern University, Dr. Reynaldo Cruz of LaCUP, Dr. Nilo
Francisco of the Centro
Escolar University
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