MANILA, Philippines - To commemorate earth Day on April 22, HBO Asia will change the color of its on-air logo and website to green for the entire day.
In the Philippines, several show biz celebrities are famously doing their share to save the planet.
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Chin Chin Gutierrez (2003 Time Magazine Asian Hero for Environment, 2004 The Outstanding Women in Nation?s Service Awardee, stage/ movie actress) has been actively lecturing about inner and outer ecology, staging eco-concerts, participating in campaigns to save forests, coral reefs, mangroves and renewable energy and supporting similar initiatives since 1998. She recently set up her own ecological organization, Alaga Lahat.
?Healing the earth is a vocation, a lifelong commitment, for me,? she says.
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Roy Alvarez (actor) has also been involved in environmental concerns for several years. He serves as vice chair of the National Eco-Waste Coalition, and has pioneered in inner/outer ecology concepts and lectures.
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Christine Bersola-Babao (broadcast journalist, children?s book author), says she has been earth-friendly since childhood to motherhood: ?In high school, Maricel Laxa (also involved in cause-oriented projects) and I collected recyclable soft drink bottles. As a mom now, I?ve written the book ?Basura Monster,? which was endorsed by the Department of Education and the Department of Energy and Natural Resources.?
In book-reading sessions for children, Babao emphasizes three Rs?reduce, reuse, recycle. ?I remind people to reduce plastic use. I encourage people to go back to using bayong for shopping, banana leaves on plates instead of styrofoam. There?s a fourth R?restore. Every little act counts.?
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Diether Ocampo (actor), joined an environmental group after watching ?An Inconvenient Truth.? He says, ?I am an advocate of Green Peace, helping promote waste management.?
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Karylle (singer/ actress) love for the environment started in Grade 5. ?My slum book motto was, ?Save the Earth.? Today, it is a global slogan,? she says. ?Awareness should start early, so that people could make it part of their life.?
