By Beverly Paoyon
ALABEL, Sarangani (April 23, 2009) – Twenty local bands performed in a free concert Wednesday night (April 22) at Sarangani Capitol gym, capping a day-long viewing of environmental films at the Environmental Conservation and Protection Center (ECPC).
The bands from Socsargen (South Cotabato-Sarangani-General Santos City) played until 3am to a crowd celebrating Earth Day.
“Thru music we want to be heard with our vision about the world and how we can express our ideas to care and protect it,” said Renan Garcia of “Rom Project”, a band from Kiamba.
“Earth Day is an event to unite. We use music and our compositions as a tool to care for the earth” said Garcia.
Dodoy Pelima of a local band said “we are shouting one voice through music. We are one for our Mother Earth to live and enjoy in a clean and green home called earth.”
The concert, organized by Capitol’s Information and Communications Technology unit, was hosted by Sarangani provincial government in partnership with the Publishers Association of General Santos City and South Cotabato, RD Foundation, Alcantara Foundation, Sarangani Bay Prime Bangus, Smart Communications, K101 FM Love Radio, Sapol and Mindanao Bulletin.
Organizers said the EarthDay Music Festival was “one big reason to celebrate peace and environmental prosperity.”
The Provincial Environment and Natural Resources Office and ECPC led the celebration of the 39th International Earth Day with the theme: “Tubig at Lupa, Buhayin; Hangin, Linisin; Batas, Tuparin.”
Among the films shown were “Inconvenient Truth” and “Blue Planet”, documentaries on global warming and marine life. The show was open to the public at the audio-visual room of ECPC.
ECPC’s film viewing was aimed at instilling “awareness to the participants (public) on the causes of global warming and climate change, its negative consequences to man and the environment, such as loss of biodiversity, and its connectivity to the various ecosystems with emphasis on the marine ecosystem.”
Sarangani’s ECPC is a frontline office that focuses on advocacy campaigns on environmental protection and has been involved in various global and local environment-related activities.
Noel Cariño, Sarangani’s environment officer, said the film showing is one of Sarangani’s initiatives in participation of the Earth Day celebration this year.
He said the focus is “advocacy for the protection of Mother Earth.”
Cariño said the provincial government has undertaken in advance a tree-growing and ground-weeding activity at Pangol-eel village, barangay Alegria in the capital town of Alabel on April 17. Cariño stressed on the individual’s responsibility in “helping Mother Earth grow in its natural way.”
“Let’s start to make Mother Earth regenerate in its own way. Help protect, conserve and sustainably manage our environment,” he said.
He added “Mother Earth is only the best place where people live. The life given to us by God should be managed well. If we manage Godly our life, Mother Earth, will not be vanished.”
Earth Day, marked every 22nd day of April, is a modern-day global environmental awareness movement which started 39 years ago in the United States and since then observed in more than 180 countries and participated in by almost half a billion people globally.
In the Philippines, President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo signed on April 10, 2008 Presidential Proclamation No. 1481 declaring April as Earth month. (SARANGANI INFORMATION OFFICE/Beverly Paoyon)
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