“Tagpuan at Buod ng mga Pulo”

2. Choose fresh air over airconditioning.

Air-conditioning harms the environment. It uses a lot of energy and is responsible for 3.4% of greenhouse gas emission annually. Its energy consumption creates pollution in the form of trapped gases in the Earth’s atmosphere. Additionally, it causes a great increase in the electricity bill.

3. Prepare your own cold drink.

Buying cold drinks from stores and coffee shops is usually convenient, and preparing your own drink sounds like a lot of work. Making your own drink on the other hand means using reusable bottles and containers. It is also a great idea to invite friends over to help you make a smoothie, or just prepare one for each of them too. Besides bonding with friends, you are being friendly to the Earth too.

4. Consider a beach clean-up drive: Find a friend with the same passion towards the environment, and organize a clean-up drive together! Beaches are home for many sea creatures, but as time passes these places become more and more polluted. Plastic bottles, picnic containers, sunscreen residue, and many more. Start by collecting the garbage from the shore, and segregate them properly.

If this sounds like an enormous job, consider setting an example through making visual representations of how to segregate your wastes and put it beside the beach’s disposal area.

5. Do not hoard swimwear.

Buy only if necessary. Hoarding swimwear, beach clothes, tank tops, and all other types of clothing is unsustainable. Too much clutter becomes impossible to keep or clean, and will result in disposal. Plus, the carbon emission of fast fashion production is of great concern.

This summer fun, fashion, and skincare are essentials but so is the proper response to the call of being a responsible individual. Maintaining, preserving, and protecting the environment in our little ways favour not just humans, but also the other species. tWS

by DAWN TIAOSON

Paano hinubog ang pagsintang Kaakibat ang walang hanggan?

Maaring hubog sa mga matang nangungulila sa kumot O buhat ng mga labing nakasimangot --Ngunit may kislap sa bawat sulyap At indak sa bawat halik at yakap.

Wariin mang ika’y kayumangi’t ako’y maputi O ako’y makata’t ika’y mang-aawit --Sa yaman nitong lahi, tayo’y iisa Sa lawak nitong daigdig, karangalang ika’y makita.

Kuwento sa timog iyong binaon, Epiko sa hilaga kaniyang ipinaksa. Kendeng sa kanluran bukas ay hahatawin, Dito sa silangan, bawat isa’y yayakapin. Bagamat tayo’y iisa sa lahi’t, anak ni Ina, Luha mo’y lungkot ko rin, maging tagumpay ko ay atin.

Mata mo’y salamin ng aking kaluluwa. Higit ay ‘di nais kung kayo’y kinulang

At sa bagyo, sakuna’t unos, Puso’y tumataba sa kaalamang --Tiwasa’y ‘di nanaisin kung ako’y nanlilimos.

Tagpuan ng pulo ang pagbabayanihan, ang pagkaka-isa Sa yaman nitong lahi, Katarungan, pagmamahal sa kapwa, at karampatan Ang buod ng buong ikinalulugod.

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frompage1| SHS urges admin... there for the students’ safe passage. We’re seeing [them] using used materials from [Building and Grounds]... but I think the safety officer did not agree so, therefore, we do not use them,” he said.

SHS on delay

SHS council governor Ella Vasquez said that some SHS students were “disappointed” while others were “understanding” of the construction delay.

Like Kilat, Vasquez said the “deadliest deadline” would be this summer.

Moreover, Belarmino said that she hopes the rest of the building will be done before next school year but cannot promise a date because she “cannot control everything.”

As of writing, the SHS department, with around 1,700 students, attends hybrid classes and shares classrooms with other departments while their building is under construction. tWS