What Loren Legarda would advise her younger self

September 28, 2021

My life is like a bullet train, but I’m grateful with all the blessings and failures I have experienced in life,” shares Antique Rep. Loren Legarda. Being the first Filipino woman to top the senatorial elections twice in 1998 and 2007 this public servant, environmentalist, cultural worker, multi-awarded journalist and mother of two is no stranger to us.
Loren has dedicated her life these past two decades to public service. During the May 2019 elections, she won by a landslide to […]

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“Attain sustainable development with bamboo”

September 24, 2021

MANILA, 24 September 2021 — In celebration of World Bamboo Day last September 18, the 63rd episode of “Stories for a Better Normal: Pandemic and Climate Change Pathways” featured stories and good practices of bamboo propagation and utilization to promote greater support for the bamboo industry in the Philippines.
The online conversation, conceptualized and hosted by three-term Senator, now Deputy Speaker and Antique Representative Loren Legarda, featured guests including Atty. Dulce Punzalan, World Bamboo Ambassador and Climate Reality Leader; Dr. Cora […]

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Legarda: Ensure implementation of Clean Air Act, new WHO air pollution standards

September 23, 2021

MANILA, 23 September 2021 — Three-term Senator and Deputy Speaker Loren Legarda welcomed the World Health Organization’s (WHO) release yesterday of new outdoor air pollutions standards and called for a stronger implementation of the Philippine Clean Air Act (Republic Act No. 8749), which she authored and helped enact into law over two decades ago.
 
Legarda said air pollution “is a global and national public health concern to which has been attributed millions of premature deaths around the world.” Millions more people […]

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Bamboo is Life in 63rd episode of ‘Stories for a Better Normal’ Series

September 22, 2021

MANILA, 21 September 2021 — Bamboo advocates will gather virtually to share knowledge on and promote bamboo propagation and utilization to attain sustainable livelihoods on the 63rd episode of “Stories for a Better Normal: Pandemic and Climate Change Pathways,” with the topic, “Bamboo is Life!”
The online conversation, conceptualized and hosted by a three-term former Senator, now Deputy Speaker Loren Legarda, will air on Thursday, 23 September 2021, 10:00 AM via Facebook Live at facebook.com/CCCPhl and facebook.com/iamlorenlegarda. Two lucky viewers can […]

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Legarda: Culture Mapping a must for LGUs

September 16, 2021

Three-term Senator and Deputy Speaker Loren Legarda, principal author of House Bill No. 10057, also known as the Cultural Mapping bill, lauded the approval of the bill on third reading during the regular session of the House of Representatives.
The bill seeks to amend Republic Act No. 10066, also known as the “National Cultural Heritage Act of 2009”, to mandate the conduct of cultural mapping in all Local Government Units.
Legarda, who first filed the proposed measure in 2014 in the Senate […]

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