"Stop the Aerial Spraying" Campaign.

Banana plantations utilize various agricultural production practices that harm people and environment. One of this is aerial spraying, where pesticides are sprayed to bananas using airplanes. Unfortunately, the pesticide does not just land on the bananas. Because of the unavoidable wind drift, the pesticide drifts to people, their houses, other crops, water springs, etc.

Plantations companies can utilize various ground spraying methods in using pesticides, with less drift, but refuse to do so in spite of the public clamor, because aerial spraying is cheaper for them. They don’t want their profit to be sliced, which is unavoidable in the beginning should they shift to ground spraying.

Davao City is the third place in the Philippines to ban aerial spraying. The first was the province of Bukidnon which banned the practice in 2001. Inspite of the ban, banana companies continue to be produced in Bukidnon. Davao City passed the ordinance in February 2007, but the ordinance' implementation was subsequently put on hold because the multinational plantation companies filed a case in court questioning the validity of the ordinance.

So in Davao and many other places in Mindanao, children on their way to school, families in their homes, plantation workers, the environment get routinely doused and exposed to pesticides.

An international campaign is necessary to enjoin the consumers of bananas to help change the practices of the plantations starting with the banning of aerial spraying in Davao and other banana producing areas in the Philippines.

The plantation companies only know the language of money. If they think that the profitability of their business will be compromised, that their buyers, their market are the oned demanding the change in practice, they there is increased chance that the companies will change their ways.


Issues

Aerial spraying affects:
• people’s health – respiratory infections, skin infections, goiter, blindness, hind leg paralysis, various forms of cancer
• environment – contaminates open bodies of water, soil
• economic livelihood of non-banana producing farmers – non-banana crops of farmers such as durian, coconut, lanzones, etc are damaged because of the pesticide used in aerial spraying and also the increasing pest infestation coming from banana farms.

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Another Philippine’s best for a new record and pride.

We maybe still hoping and struggling for our very first gold in the Olympics but in any competitions we can dig up new record and pride as easy as voting.
WWW.new7wonders.com , A nature lover website is again looking for a new seven wonders. Last June 2008 when I started monitoring the movements of each candidate, especially in the top 10 where candidates are experiencing the crucial stage, I have found out that in just few weeks there is going to be a sudden change to each positions. Each nominee obtains a position depending on the votes it collected. December 2008 is the final judging and the crowning of the new 7 wonders of the world.
Like some of the candidates around the world, the Philippine’s candidate made also in the top 10, in fact three of the best sceneries was able to find their position playing inside the top 10. These are:


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(photos: A)Tubbataha reef of the sulu sea, B)Chocolate hills of bohol, and C)Puerto princesa's Subterranean river national park. photo coutesy of YAHOO!)

• Tubataha reef,
• Chocolate hills, and
• Subterranean river National Park.




Also a quick runner, Philippine’s perfect cone volcano from Albay. “Mayon Volcano”. Mayon Volcano was actually not in the official list of the new7wonders.com live ranking for the top 77 several weeks ago. But in the month of May and June this volcano had its progress replacing the 15th and 16th placer. Few weeks later, this volcano was again showing aggressiveness replacing the 12th placer and eventually begun holding position inside the top 10.
It was great when people came from other places casted their appreciations and positive comments about above mentioned contestants found in every candidate’s introduction and presentation.
Last August 18, 2008, a very alarming information and unexpected fall down I saw in the LIVE RANKING where the candidates from the Philippines had its crash. The three of them are down and currently not in the top 10 and Mayon Volcano also fell down and did not even get the chance to get back where it first debuted.
This is perhaps because of the absence of the votes. The current votes of these candidates may not fight over as of this moment against other contender’s current number of votes which is now ahead from them.
It is not yet too late, there are still huge chances to rescue these candidates, we can still vote until December.

There are 7 suggestions I learn and shared to many to help our candidates make it in the new 7 wonders of the world:

1. Vote as many as you can; each voter is allowed to vote as many as he/she want to. Final voting ends on December, you must also have a valid e-mail account to be able to vote. Be sure to register and verify the mail sent by the new7wonders.com system administrator.
2. Tell a friend and classmate about the matter. It is indeed one of effective way collecting and increasing the votes.
3. Make a simple advertisements; if you are really passionate about saving the earth probably you must be nature lover, you must have an enormous initiative to tell anyone about the competition.
4. Convey an influential agency and institution. Ask help from a TV and Radio stations, school organizations and Internet café owner. The church may somehow help about this. Government agency and NGO’s
5. Start Email your friends, relatives and other reliable websites owner especially from abroad whom you think can make contributions.
6. Make a blog or advertisements over the internet. Be sure to paste and flag your blog in any websites, please secure permission in doing so.
7. Consider using short messaging service (SMS) also known as text messaging in your cellular phone to disseminate information about the matter.
Very important note: please do not forget to write and pronounce the website where they can cast their votes. Be Specific or be particular when making a letter or note. The LARGER the font size and the CLEARER the INFORMATION is, the more VOTES and SUPPORT.

These are the 7 ways on How to find and vote in the New7wonders.com

1. Click the Internet explorer Icon or Mozilla Firefox icon in your desktop or computer,
2. In the address bar please type: www.new7wonders.com and press ENTER.
3. In the new7wonder’s homepage you will be able to see the website’s menu, please select N7W then click LIVE RANKING.
4. Select the candidates you want to support (you can choose from top 1-77),
5. You can vote by clicking the vote button located at the left side part of the rank number and name of the candidate.
6. Enter your valid e-mail. If it is your first time to vote, the system will ask you to register. Please sign up by filling up the information given by the system and after you may continue your voting.
7. After registering and voting, it is a must to verify the E-mail sent by the system administrator. This is to validate completely the votes you made. Repeat process from step number 2 and you may also vote again as many as you want to.


Let us all help and be as one by promoting Philippine’s best to the world.

“We are indeed small and ordinary but if we gather, we may become big and extraordinary. Saving nature is saving God’s creation.”-Inspired-

VOTE NOW!!!!!

you may also click here to proceed in the new LIVE ranking.