International Year of Planet Earth & Earth Science Week Photo Contest

To celebrate the International Year of Planet Earth and Earth Science Week, the American Geological Institute is sponsoring a major international photography contest: “Exploring Earth Science Around the World.”

No matter where in the world you live, Earth science is all around you. Just step outdoors, and you find it in rivers and lakes, in the sky above you, and in the ground under your feet. Earth science includes geology, oceanography, meteorology, hydrology, paleontology, and other geosciences. Continue reading

Cebu City Heritage Tour Day 1

Have you ever felt how it is to be on a heritage tour even on your own place? Last August 21 and 31, 2009, Cebu Bloggers Society went on a heritage tour of Cebu City.

Cebu City is the oldest city in the Philippines and is hailed as the Queen City of the South. The city itself, though not very large in size, holds a lot of historical memories that dated even to the time of the Spaniards. I still remember our international project in high school entitled Calles de Cebu which means Streets of Cebu. It won gold but unfortunately, the website isn’t up anymore. Being on that project made me realize that Cebu is not only Cebu because of the Lapu-lapu-Magellan tandem but because of the many historical figures and events that graced this long living community.

This heritage tour, organized by Atty. Ouano includes a video footage of us, the bloggers, giving out lines (e.g. We will impress this message upon our political leaders that we now have this individual and collective political will. We implore our leaders to take heed) that relate to protecting nature and society as a whole. We call this project (or maybe advocacy?) Expression of Individual and Collective Will. Continue reading

Why Wear Sunglasses When Under the Rays of the Sun?

Photo from flavijus via Flickr

Photo from flavijus via Flickr

While we can’t live without the sun, our eyes can’t survive too much exposure on it. Our eyes are one of the most sensitive parts of our body and diverse environmental factors could cause it not to perform well, or even destroy it.

There are many ways to protect one’s eyes from the harmful rays of the sun. One of which is wearing sunglasses. Sunglasses are not only for fashion. There is a much higher purpose of it which is to protect our eyes. Since the sun releases out a lot of ultraviolet rays, there is much danger for our eyes getting defunct or having ocular problems.

Some of the short-term and long-term ocular problems caused by excessive eye exposure to the sun are: Continue reading

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