Raise Your Voice by Filipino environmental advocates

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Dear Noypi Ako Movement,

As part of the United Nation’s Climate Change Convention, global leaders will convene to discuss and iron out global agreement on climate change in Copenhagen from December 7 to 21, 2009.

To generate awareness among millions of views in the world, CNN and Youtube partnered with the Danish government and created Raise Your Voice campaign, asking individuals to send videos with their views, opinions, and questions about the global event.

As Filipino environmental advocates, we are joining the contest to share our views and recommendations to change the course of climate change. We ask your support to vote for our video from November 6 to 30, 2009.

Here are steps to vote:

1. Visit www.youtube.com/cop15
2. Click Vote.
3. Search Philippines on the videos per country.
4. Kindly “OK” the entry entitled: Raise Your Voice by Filipino environmental advocates. As of the moment, it is the only single entry from the Philippines.

The video can be viewed here

We may not be the experts in this field, but it is our passion to keep the conversations on climate change issues rolling both in the communities and the cyberspace. In our video entry, we discuss disaster management system and the shift to use alternative energies – both major issues that should be addressed with urgent importance. Based on viewpoints from a developed and developing nation, we highlight action plans to reduce carbon emissions by industries and implement preventive measures when natural disasters strike. Particularly, this is a wakeup call for the Philippine government to implement laws and programs on environmental management.

We appreciate it if you may encourage your friends and loved ones to vote for this video via your blog and social networking sites.

If we are able to gather significant number of votes, we will have the opportunity to raise environmental concerns with the leaders during the convention. Our target is to air the video on CNN/Youtube Debates on December 15.

If you have further questions, drop by an email to paulgarilao@gmail.com or give us a call at 09228948909. Thank you and we look forward to an overwhelming response. Let us help change climate change!

Paul Garilao and Alfonso Orioste, Jr.
Environmental advocates