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	<title>DIOPIM Committee On Mining Issues</title>
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	<description>Advocates for a Sustainable Future</description>
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		<title>Are there alternatives to Large-Scale Mining?</title>
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YES, there are alternatives. 
We should recognize that the nature of the Philippine economy is largely agricultural with a high potential for agro-industrialization. This, in fact, was the main strategy outlined in the 1987 Constitutiom - which promoted first the social justice and asset reform agenda - towards national industrialization. The threat of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>State of Nature Address (SONA) 2008</title>
		<description><![CDATA[July 25, 2008
Environmental Studies Institute, Miriam College
The world is in a survival mode. Climate Change is upon us, bringing disasters and threatening our food, water and fuel security. Over the last century, global mean surface temperature rose 0.5-0-0.74 degrees Centigrade per decade. The 1990s were the hottest decade and 2005 was the hottest year on [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Talk of the Town</title>
		<description><![CDATA[July 16, 2008,
MR. JUAN V. SARMIENTO, JR.
Editor, &#8220;Talk of the Town&#8221;
Philippine Daily Inquirer
Dear Mr. Sarmiento,
This is in reference to the reaction-letter of Mr. Ricardo Dimaculangan, regarding the article of Mr. Joel Pagsanghan, published by Talk of the Town, last July 13, 2008.
The Philippine Asset Reform Report Card (PARRC) was a project of the Philippine Partnership [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://dcmiphil.org/dcmi/2008/07/22/talk-of-the-town/</link>
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		<title>The Theology of the Sacramentality of Creation</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;And the Lord God took the man, and put him into the garden of Eden to dress it and to keep it(Genesis 2:15).&#8221;
 
The world is inhabited by the Sacred.  All created beings are a sign and a revelation of the Creator who leaves an imprint everywhere.  This is the theology of St. Bonaventure, following the [...]]]></description>
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