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SUSTAINARUMBLE!
by SUSTAINARUMBLE! Team
Every headline in the Philippines has a sustainability story behind it. SUSTAINARUMBLE! connects the dots between today's news and tomorrow's consequences. Real stories, real stakes, real solutions for the informed Filipino citizen.Find all our social media pages and other content here: linktr.ee/sustainarumbleSend us an email at [email protected] for inquiries or collaboration!
Episodes
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Open for business... but short on supply?
Despite being operational for three years, the Green Energy Option Program (GEOP) has reached over 500 customers by the end of 2024. Mindanao gained access to the program in March of that year, following the historic interconnection of the national grid. The awareness gap is real. But awareness...
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The hidden cost of coal
Coal still powers roughly 60% of the Philippines' electricity, and the cost isn't just on your bill. It's in the air, in community health, and in the growing exposure to climate-driven disruptions. In this episode, Pocholo Enriquez of Climate Reality Philippines walks us through what the data...
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What most Filipino businesses are missing out on
Is the opportunity still on the horizon, or is it already here? The Philippines has quietly become one of Southeast Asia's stronger environments for renewable energy adoption, with government-backed programs, financial incentives, and infrastructure developments designed to make the transition...
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Sustainability is contagious! A Filipino furniture giant can atest.
What does it look like when sustainability stops being a policy and starts being a way of life for an entire company? For Uratex, one of the Philippines' most established furniture manufacturers, the answer didn't begin with solar panels or kilowatt targets. It began with a belief: that a…
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This banking company shows no signs of stopping.
They led a sustainable business in the Philippines before it even became a buzzword. Here they are, continuously setting an example. In this episode of the REalTalk Podcast, we explore how a corporation that leads by example in running a sustainable business recognizes the importance of going...
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Is going 100% renewable practical? This company has the receipts.
What does it actually look like when a Filipino manufacturing company commits fully to renewable energy and succeeds? In this episode of the REalTalk Podcast, we go beyond the policy discussions and expert debates to bring you the on-the-ground reality of a business that made the switch and never...
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No fees, no drama. Just cleaner and cheaper power.
Did you know that as a business owner in the Philippines, you may already have the legal right to choose exactly where your electricity comes from, and pay significantly less for it? Most businesses don't. And that's exactly the problem this episode sets out to address. In Episode 2 of REalTalk…
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We did it before. Can we do it again?
Did you know the Philippines once ran on over 50% renewable energy, and achieved it in just 5 years? In the 1970s, the country was almost entirely dependent on oil. Then the global oil shocks hit, and the Philippines was forced to rethink everything. What followed was one of the most remarkable...
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The Reef That Everyone Thought Was Beyond Saving
In 1994, a seven-year-old witnessed something unforgettable: a coral reef blown to pieces by dynamite fishing. What looked like an underwater graveyard was actually the aftermath of a copper mine shutdown that left thousands jobless, desperate enough to use explosives to survive. Armed with a…
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What The Forest Guardians Know That We Don't
Can the last 3% of the rainforest in the Philippines stand the test of time?While Subic Bay transforms into a modern economic hub, the Aeta people of Pastolan protect 12,000 hectares of ancestral forest with their lives.We sit down with the brains and hands behind a social enterprise that's...
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Can One Community Garden Change Everything?
Can restoring a coastline also restore livelihoods, educate students, and protect communities all at once? Thessa Ramos proved it's possible by weaving solutions together instead of solving problems in isolation. In this episode, she shares how a mangrove nursery became a movement across 15...
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What Communities Know About Climate That Scientists Don't
Climate data tells you where flooding happens, but it doesn't tell you how staff and workers help people and the environment adapt to risks. The people navigating these realities every day have already mapped the patterns, identified the vulnerabilities, and often designed their own solutions. In...
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When Crisis Becomes Personal
This is a pilot episode of the AlterCOP 30 Philippines' miniseries where we feature the stories of humans behind the program. When 26 million students lose school to typhoons and farmers earn a mere fraction from their produce, two young Filipinos decided they couldn't just watch anymore. One...
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31: Making Metro Manila HEALTHIER and More SUSTAINABLE
Walkable cities. Comprehensive transport system. Dignified housing. Multi-purpose facilities. Less pollution. Iilan lang ‘yan sa mga aspeto na bumubuo sa isang sustainable and healthy city. Gayunpaman, paano natin makakamit ang mga ito para sa Metro Manila at pati na rin sa mga malalaking mga...
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30: Metro Manila: An UNLIVABLE Megacity?
With the continuous growth of all the big cities in Asia, it is no doubt that Metro Manila is considered in this discussion as being the only commercial hub in the Philippines. As this phenomenon continues to worsen, what now happens to Filipinos that kept on flocking to the Philippines’ capital...
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Climathon Special: Enabling the Filipino Youth to Combat Climate Change
Climathon is a nonprofit based in the UK whose goal is to localize climate solutions for specific climate action kahit saan man sa mundo. Chances are, you might have at least seen Climathon Philippines on your social media feed, or maybe went the extra mile by joining in one of their events…
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29: How to Save a Rich Filipino Heritage
Ang culture at heritage ay napakahalaga hindi lang sa pagrerepresenta ng ating napakayamang kasaysayan pero pati na rin sa paniniguro na naiintindihan natin ang ating kasarinlan upang makamit ang totoong progress. If we keep destroying historic buildings and natural environments, when will we...
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28: The Waning Filipino Heritage
Napakabilis ng paglago ng ekonomiya sa panahon ngayon, lalung-lalo na dahil sa teknolohiya na nagpapadali at nagpapaganda ng buhay para sa lahat. However, the very things that made modernization abundant are also the same reasons why we are slowly neglecting the very foundation of our souls — our...
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27: The Philippines' Green Power Potential, REVEALED
Because of the Republic Act of 2008, Filipinos have the capability to make the choice of shifting to renewable energy as their power source. The Filipino society is potent in making energy production and usage sustainable. Ano ba ang mga options? How can Filipinos unleash the green power…
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26: Shifting to Clean Energy: IT'S COMPLICATED?
When you are clean and everyone wants you... pero hindi ganoon ka-simple magpalit para sa'yo. The trend is real: the world is shifting to renewable energy that is very environmentally friendly and will still keep our lights on at the same time. Solar panels are becoming cheaper and cheaper by the...
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RUMBLE! Talks: Achieving Net-Zero Pollution
Ang pollution ay isa sa mga pangunahing dahilan ng lumalalang kalagayan ng mga tao, kalikasan, at ng buong mundo. This includes the dirty air that we breathe, the contaminated water that we drink, the plastics that kill fishes and clog our waterways, and the barren lands that lead to earthquakes...
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25: Why Zero Pollution is the Secret to Progress
Sa panahon ngayon, hindi na sapat sa isang producer ang makapagproduce ng naaayon sa market demand. Kung dati ang progress ay nasusukat sa laki ng capital na nalilikom, ngayon ito na'y nasusukat sa pagbabalanse ng profit generation at environmental sustainability. A profitable industry, or a...
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24: What A Contaminated World
Kahit anong clean-up drive ay wala nang maidudulot na magandang epekto sa kalikasan. We have reached a point where vast development and commercialization have standardized processes na talagang iisa lang ang panig: Profit > Planet. Ang lahat ng mga aktibidad across industries na kung…
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RUMBLE! Talks: Putting Dignity Into Waste
Thousands of families and children survive on the pennies they earn from waste picking and junk trading every day. It gives them food and water that to this day are still insufficient to fill their stomachs because despite discreetly doing more good in the community, waste picking remains an...
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UNDP x SUSTAINARUMBLE! EPPIC Special #4: Mainstreaming Circular Economy
What will it take to normalize an approach that spells the possibility of eliminating residual wastes and gaining full control of the production to disposal process? In this episode, the EPPIC finalists bares how their projects will support UNDP's mission of mainstreaming the circular economy....
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UNDP x SUSTAINARUMBLE! EPPIC Special #3: Making A Cleaner and Greener World through Innovation
In order to see different results, one must be willing to do things differently. In this third episode of #SUSTAINARUMBLExUNDP #EPPIC2021 miniseries, let's find out how our ASEAN finalists aim to make a cleaner and greener world through innovation. Facebook: Sustainarumble Instagram:...
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UNDP x SUSTAINARUMBLE! EPPIC Special #2: Meet the Finalists of EPPIC 2021
What was the most interesting founding story of an impactful company that you've ever encountered? In this second episode of #SUSTAINARUMBLExUNDP EPPIC 2021 miniseries, meet 6 of the 8 ASEAN finalists and discover how they founded their initiatives! Note: it's not always what you expected....
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UNDP x SUSTAINARUMBLE! EPPIC Special #1: Let's talk Circular Economy and EPPIC 2021
Based on a 2015 study, the Philippines is one of the top 5 countries contributing to marine plastic wastes. Another study states that, without action, we risk having more plastic than fishes in the ocean by 2050. To face this dilemma, we are in search for novel solutions! And in this episode, we...
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23: Is There Really Cash in Trash?
Much like other social, environmental, and economic issues, the programs and policies set to completely manage waste generation and collection lack funding and thorough implementation. There is also a growing mentality where people believe that controlled dumpsites are necessary but just not in...
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22: Philippines' Poor Waste Management System
Almost all things that approach their end-of-life go to landfills. From the tin cans and snack packaging to plastic bottles and styrofoams, objects end piling up on mountain-like dumpsites with no hope to be decomposed or reproduce in sight. Cities and barangays in the Philippines were poised to...
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RUMBLE! Talks: Moving MORE People, LESS Cars
Do we really need to widen roads even inner streets and secondary avenues to alleviate traffic? Do we really need to build elevated highways in order to "split" vehicles on the road and eventually accommodate faster travel? If you look closely, the best question to ask is: are we moving more…
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21: How The Netherlands Transformed from Car-Centric to Pedestrian-First
Metro Manila today appears like a carbon-copy of Utrecht in The Netherlands, Vienna in Austria, and Brussels in Belgium back in the 1980s. But what's interesting is, contrary to Western-style development economics of building more roads to "lighten" car throughput, these European countries stayed...
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20: Why the Philippine Transport System is FLAWED
Picture yourself going to your workplace in Makati coming from your home in Quezon City. A one-way commute in the morning alone would take you 2 hours and a half, including boarding, alighting, and walking the last mile. But did you know that the average daily commute in Japan that includes going...
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RUMBLE! Talks: Farming in the City
Farming... IN THE CITY? Is that even possible? But, what for? This is the pilot episode of RUMBLE! Talks, a brand new series of special episodes where hosts Jonas, Shawntel, and CK openly talk about their personal thoughts on growing food in condo terraces, home backyards, and open lots in local...
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19: How to be a Plantita... with a Heart
Have you been thinking about creating your own beautiful garden or producing food at your backyard but do not know where to exactly start? There are six fundamentals of gardening that you must know to secure everything you need before you plant, and seven best and proven techniques to efficiently...
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18: Metro Manila's Looming Food Crisis
Feeding a projected global population of NINE BILLION PEOPLE while minimizing humanity’s agricultural and carbon footprint is one of the most challenging problems that the world faces today. What more now, when, the COVID-19-induced lockdowns have limited the supply of fresh produce from rural...
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17: The 10-minute City
What kind of city do we want? It's such a bold thing to answer but maybe the answer is already innately present all along. As cities spread out even bigger than ever before, the segregation of services is ever-widening to a point that even the basic necessities are inaccessible for people. Just...
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16: Helter-Shelter
Warning: there are audio quality issues on certain parts that weren't resolved due to some recording errors and post-production limitations. Nevertheless, this is a very strong and informative episode that you will definitely enjoy! The housing crisis kept ballooning over the years. Given that...
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15: "Sorry, you're on mute."
Remote working has long been a global working habit due to the increasing accessibility of Internet connection and software programs for work. People can just bring their devices and find a place to settle down, get a cup of coffee, and start working. The Philippines' commercial sector --...
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14: Metro Manila: How Was It Built?
Metro Manila is now home to sixteen (16) cities and one (1) town, with close to thirteen (13) million residents residing within the 619.6 km squared land area -- making it one of the densest places in the world. The capital has gone through a number of phases being the center of trade and…
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Special: Sustainable Development in 2020 and Beyond
We are exactly a decade away from the United Nations' goal of achieving a fully sustainable world, yet as the pandemic overtook the world in 2020, how did this mission progressed all year? Sustainable Development, in and by itself, is a long and winding journey of both substantial and personal...
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Special: Social Impact, Renewable Energy, Climate Action... and some Singing!
In this special collaboration with another fantastic podcast on social innovation and climate action A Dose of Intensity with Carla Mumar, SUSTAINARUMBLE! team's own Jonas and Shawntel talked to Carla about some of the most pressing challenges in making real social impact, utilizing renewable...
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Special: Misconceptions in Fighting Climate Change
Climate change is real - and it is drastic. The effects of typhoons year after year on the Philippines are worsening as they come by. Just in November 2020, two ravaging typhoons raged the lands, destroyed nature, submerged towns and cities, and left Filipinos in desperate need for help. Yet...
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13: Transport 4.0
What will transportation be like in the future? In a world spun by technology and data, the incoming disruption including the transport sector is inevitable as needs continuously change. With all the sustainability principles considered for today's transport system, how will the system further...
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12: Sustainable Transport
All the issues on the transport system now considered, what can be done to truly make a shift to a system that makes sense economically, socially, and environmentally? Time is ticking. There is nothing to waste. The unsustainable transport system is like a boiling kettle that needs to cool down....
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11: #CommutersNaman
What is one word you can associate with the word "commute"? When ideally it is supposed to be "convenient," it turned out to be a "headache" for Manilenyos - and even Cebuanos. Majority of the people residing in metro cities are people that do not own any private vehicle. Moreover, several...
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10: "Walang masakyan? May ibang paraan!"
Whatever you have been hearing about technology being only reserved for hackers and the techy is wrong. Technology gets its value when it is used to bridge practical solutions to the most complex of problems, including mobility. In the recent years, mass transport has been a huge problem in urban...
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9: Riles is the Realest
The railway system in the Philippines has lagged so far behind, we are counting years of development and Filipinos' thousands of hours lost. Riding a train in Metro Manila whether on light or heavy rail has proven erratic - you're lucky when you use the train in window hours where it is not…
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8: Counting Cars, Chasing Roads
Roads have always been the main thoroughfares in moving people. All transport modes that run on roads therefore have proven to be the main options to get to places. Yet without a progressive framework that enables more accessible, convenient, and high-quality transport services, the most…
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7: Paglalakbay
Transportation has defined and shaped how cities have been built since the beginning of human civilization. It greatly contributed to how products and services flow in the value chain. Metro Manila is the densest place in the world, with over 20 million residents and counting. This region is also...
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Every headline in the Philippines has a sustainability story behind it. SUSTAINARUMBLE! connects the dots between today's news and tomorrow's consequences. Real stories, real stakes, real solutions for the informed Filipino citizen.Find all our social media pages and other content here: linktr.ee/sustainarumbleSend us an email at [email protected] for inquiries or collaboration!
HOSTED BY
SUSTAINARUMBLE! Team
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