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Learn from GAIA: How to build a zero-waste island

Available to all, this report highlights a community-led approach to waste management built around local knowledge.

Insights: Lessons from ‘Sustainability for Founders’ in partnership with AIM-DBI

A new cohort at AIM-DBI reinforces the insight that structural stagnation stems from the founders' relationships with control, risk, and personal identity.

What LGBTQIA+ community builders want us to know about inclusion

From using lived names to just inviting them to the party, here are some steps any social impact space can integrate.

How the words we choose decide who’s welcome

At a women's networking event, Sustina's resident nonbinary raised a hand and a hard question. The room wasn't quite ready with an answer.

Clou and Sustina take First Light impact campaign for Masungi Georeserve from Manila to New York

First Light's impact campaign is heading to New York Climate Week in September 2026 to broaden the call to protect a threatened conservation site.

Open Call: Oscar M. Lopez Center seeks entries for climate short film festival

Selected participants can win up to ₱100,000 to produce their climate short film.

Explainer: Why is the Philippines offering the US-led Pax Silica 4,000 acres of land?

New Clark City is hosting an 'AI hub' under the Pax Silica program, a U.S.-led international coalition.

EU-backed circular economy accelerator seeks to drive greener growth in Mindanao

Circulab is helping Mindanao's agri-enterprises transform waste into value, creating economic opportunities while advancing environmental sustainability.

The Philippines’ second NDC is ‘awaiting scheduling’ as ICJ climate ruling raises the stakes

As one of the world's most climate-vulnerable nations, the Philippines helped push for the ICJ ruling. But its own updated climate targets are still unsubmitted.

When the blue planet runs dry

Water—the very thing that makes life possible on Earth—is in danger of running out. We asked a water expert how we got here, and what we can still do to save it.

The most dangerous place in Asia for environmental defenders, and why we refuse to stop

When we lose an environmental and human rights defender, we lose a version of a better world—one that could have only been possible with them in it.

Can 50,000 seedlings ‘offset’ mass-cutting trees along Quirino Avenue?

Sustainability and environment experts weigh in on the costs and challenges of replanting trees.