Let's Save Our Planet: When Trees Fall to the Ground

Mr. & Ms. Vol. 22 No. 44, March 2, 1999
On the front cover: Dingdong Dantes and Antoinette Taus
On the back cover: Mauro “Malang” Santos and his grandchildren
for the Bear Brand Full Cream Milk print ad

This Let’s Save Our Planet article written 19 years ago, “When Trees Fall to Ground,” is about the environmental horror that is logging.

“Let the fields and everything in it rejoice. Then all the trees of the forest will sing for joy before the LORD, because He is coming. He is coming to judge the world; He will judge the world with fairness and the people with truth.” – Psalms 96:12-13, The Everyday Bible, New Century Version.

 

Let's Save Our Planet: Tree Spiking - The Last Stand to Protect Our Remaining Forests

Mr. & Ms. Vol. 19 No. 36, January 9, 1996

On the cover: Pierce Brosnan

For the Let’s Save Our Planet section of Mr. & Ms. January 9, 1996 issue, “Tree Spiking: The Last Stand to Protect Our Remaining Forests.” A complete version of this article titled “Tree Spiking:Dirty Trick or Justified Means” was published in Savvy October 20, 1997 issue.

To be an Environmentalist, Start With Your Yuletide Garbage

Celebrity World Vol. 3 No. 177, December 26, 1994

On the cover: Sunshine Cruz

A short article about the December birthstone turquoise.

Mr. & Ms. Vol. 19 No. 35, December 26, 1995 – January 2, 1996

On the cover: Aga Muhlach

On Let’s Save Our Planet section of Mr. & Ms., some suggestions on how “To be an environmentalist.....” You can do it. Everybody can do it. “Start with your Yuletide garbage.” Manage your garbage and recycle!

 

“The observers gave this command; the holy ones declared the sentence. This is so all people may know that the Most High GOD rules over every kingdom on earth. GOD gives those kingdoms to anyone He wants, and He chooses people to rule them who are not proud.” – Daniel 4:17, The Everyday Bible, New Century Version.

Plant a Christmas Tree This Christmas

Mr. & Ms. Vol. 18 No. 35, December 20, 1994

On the cover: Dawn Zulueta

For Mr. & Ms. magazine’s Let’s Save Our Planet section, what better way to celebrate the Yuletide Season than to do something for Mother Nature and the environment. Instead of buying a Christmas tree, why not plant one yourself.

“GOD’s power protects you through your faith until salvation is shown to you at the end of time.” – I Peter 1:5, The Everyday Bible, New Century Version.

Butterfly Raising: Conserve Nature's Beauties and Make a Profit on the Side

Mr. & Ms. Vol. 22 No. 33, December 8, 1998

On the cover: Regine Velasquez

My favorite magazine section, Let’s Save Our Planet, featured “Butterfly Raising: Conserve Nature’s Beauties and Make a Profit on the Side,” another article I had pleasure writing.

 

“Only a wise man knows what things really mean. Wisdom makes him smile and makes his frowns disappear.” – Ecclesiastes 8:1, The Good News Bible in Today’s English Version.

Let's Save Our Planet: Bio-Intensive Gardening

Mr. & Ms. Vol. 19 No. 26, October 24, 1995

On the cover: (from left to right) Donna Cruz, Aga Muhlach, Donita Rose and Vina Morales

A reprint from of my Celebrity World article of similar title published one-and-a-half years earlier. It is still very much applicable today.

“He gives food to every living creature; His love is eternal. Give thanks to the GOD of heaven; His love is eternal.” – Psalms 136:25-26, The Good News Bible in Today’s English Version.

Last Hope for Mt. Makiling

Mr. & Ms. Vol. 22 No. 24, October 6, 1998

On the cover: Christopher Peralta and Paula Paralejo,

Nicolas Cage (inset).

What people must know about Mount Makiling. (Note: The italization of the scientific names must have been overlooked at the encoding).

“In the last days the mountain on which the LORD’s Temple stands will become the most important of all mountains. It will be raised above the hills, and people from all nations will come streaming to it.” – Isaiah 2:2, The Everyday Bible, New Century Version.

The Philippine Eagle: Flight of an Endangered Species

Mr. & Ms. Vol. 22 Nos. 22, 23 & 24, October 1, 8 and 15, 1996

On the covers: (From left to right) Diether Ocampo and Angelika dela Cruz,

Olgie Alcasid and Michelle van Eimeren, and Anthony Suntay and Lyn Ching.

Featured in three succeeding issues of Let’s Save Our Planet is my three part article – “The Philippine Eagle: Flight of an Endangered Species.”

Part I: The Noblest Flyer

Part II: On the Wings of Hope (and Unity)

Part III: The Rallying Point

“... Those who trust in the LORD for help will find their strength renewed. They will rise on wings like eagles; they will run and not get weary; they will walk and not grow weak.” – The Book of Isaiah 40:31, The Good News Bible in Today’s English Version.

Let's Save Our Planet: Computer Management and the Paperless Office

Mr. & Ms. Vol. 23 No. 13, July 20, 1999

On the front cover: China Cojuangco

On the back cover: Sharon Cuneta for the Alaska Milk print ad.

I wrote the article, “Computer Management and the Paperless Office” 18 years ago, but its relevance extends up to the present. Read and find out why.

“A lazy person is as bad as someone who is destructive.” – Proverbs 18:9, The Good News Bible in Today’s English Version.

Let's Save Our Planet: The Shrinking Wood Supply

Mr. & Ms. Vol. 22 No. 10, June 30, 1998

On the cover: Dodot Jaworski and Mikee Cojuangco

A timely article in 1998, “The Shrinking Wood Supply” (pp. 46-47), the write-up is still very much significant 19 years after.

“If a tree is cut down, there is hope that it will grow again and will send new branches. Even if its roots grow old in the ground, and its stump dies in the dirt, at the smell of water it will bud and put out new shoots like a plant.” – Job 14:7-9, The Everyday Bible, New Century Version.

Let's Save Our Planet: Saving Our Bats

Mr. & Ms. Vol. 19 No. 3, May 16, 1995

On the front cover: Joey Albert with daughters Trixie and Margi.

On the back cover: Aiko Melendez in a Rexona underarm deodorant print ad.

As far as I know, this article, “Saving Our Bats” (p. 15), is the second one I wrote for Mr. & Ms. magazine and also the second for its “Let’s Save Our Planet” section.

“One thing I (Solomon) have learned: GOD made people good, but they have found all kinds of ways to be bad.” – Ecclesiastes 7:29, The Everyday Bible, New Century Version.

 

Crocodile Farming: If You Can't Protect Them, Raise Them

Mr. & Ms. Vol. 19 No. 52, April 30, 1996

On the cover: Rico Yan

On “Let’s Save Our Planet” section of Mr. & Ms. April 30, 1996 issue is a very interesting article about “Crocodile Farming” with the subtitle “If You Can’t Protect Them, Raise Them” (p. 18).

“Righteousness gives life, but violence takes it away.” – Proverbs 11:30, The Good News Bible in Today’s Modern English Version.

Let's Save Our Planet: Stop Stuffing the (Sea) Turtles!

Mr. & Ms. Vol. 18 No. 46, March 21, 1995
On the cover: Emilio Garcia and Jenette Fernando

One of my earliest article contributions for Mr. & Ms. magazine is “Stop Stuffing the (Sea) Turtles” (p. 19) that was featured in the magazine’s “Let’s Save Our Planet” section.

Mr. & Ms. magazine Vol. 23 No. 45, March 21, 2000
On the front cover: Regine Velasquez
On the back cover: Sharon Cuneta for the Alaska Milk print ads.

 

In my early freelance career as a magazine contributor, I used to make all sorts of trivia “quizzes” and “puzzlers” like “Quiz for the Wiz” for Chinatown East magazine, “Showbiz Quiz” for MOD Filipina magazine, and “Braintwister” for Mr. & Ms. magazine. I try to make them unique and interesting. Here’s an example, “Word Countries” in Mr. & Ms. “Braintwister” March 21, 2000 issue, where I even added an illustration.

“To the LORD belong the earth and everything in it, the world and all its inhabitants. For it was He who founded it on the seas and planted it firm on the waters beneath.” – Psalms 24:1-2, The Revised English Bible with Apocrypha.

 

 

 

 

Let's Save Our Planet: Charge of the Last Tamaraw



Mr. & Ms. Vol. 22 No. 46, March 16, 1999
On the cover: Piolo Pascual and Angela Grant

I’m a consistent contributor for the Mr. & Ms. magazine section “Let’s Save Our Planet.” This one, “Charge of the Last Tamaraw” (p. 39) is a reissue taken from the 9-part special features article “An Education of Philippine Endangered Species” published earlier in Celebrity World magazine (September 4 – October 30, 1995), for which I won the top prize of the Science and technology Journalism Award sponsored by the Philippines Press Institute and the Philippine Geothermal Inc. 

 

 

 



“In addition, I have noticed that in this world you find wickedness where justice and right ought to be. I told myself, ‘GOD is going to judge the righteous and the evil alike, because every thing, every action, will happen at its own set time.’ I decided that GOD is testing us, to show us that we are no better than animals. After all, the same fate awaits man and animal alike. One dies just like the other.....” – Ecclesiastes 3:16-19, The Good News Bible in Today’s English Version