Mayor: Youth should take more proactive stance for environment

• Source:http://www.sunstar.com.ph/pampanga/local-news/2016/01/26/mayor-youth-should-take-more-proactive-stance-environment-453811
• Tuesday, January 26, 2016

(AC-CIO with reports from Shena Lumanog)

ANGELES CITY -- "We always tell ourselves that we will do something 'in our own little way', but we always fail to start. Today is a good day to do just that. We could start by simply not littering and plant trees of our own."

Thus said Angeles City Mayor Edgardo Pamintuan, as the local government here, together with the City College of Angeles (CCA) and Task Force One Million Trees, held a city-wide campus conference on climate change, Friday, at the CCA campus.

The program, titled “#iACTNow Own a Greener Future”, is a call-to-action geared towards the Angeleño youth to take ownership and responsibility of the city's future through environmental preservation and protection advocacies.

As a staunch environmental advocate, Pamintuan believes that the movement is a good step in thwarting the negative effects of climate change.

“I have a firm belief that a person is not a person until he plants his own tree." Pamintuan said, adding that everyone could make an impact with this small and simple act.

From January 2010 to present, the task force has planted almost 250,000 trees in this city. They were also able to implement an urban gardening campaign here.

“#iACTNow, Own a Greener Future” aims to spur an environmental movement from Angeleño youth in the call to prevent global warming. It is a project of the Taskforce One Million Trees headed by Bishop José Briones in partnership with CCA.

Together with the Youth Community Service Club (YCSC), Young Entrepreneurs' Society (YES) and the Debaters' Guild of CCA, this movement seeks to increase information awareness and encourage community involvement in the preservation of the environment.