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JoeAmMining Our Past, Saving Our Future: Why the Philippines Needs Landfill Mining and Smart WtE
By Karl Garcia Beyond slogans, beyond moral fights, toward industrial-scale environmental solutions For decades, environmental debates in the Philippines have revolved around a single, tired binary: Zero Waste vs. Incineration. NGOs condemn burning. LGUs defend Waste-to-Energy (WtE). Corporations stay silent. And while the debate rages, rivers clog, mountains are mined, landfills overflow, and cities sprawl … Continue reading
The Integrated Archipelago: Forging Philippine Resilience through Infrastructure, Maritime Governance, and Blue–Green Industrial Convergence
Author: Karl Garcia Abstract This blog article presents a vision of the Philippines as a connected, sovereign, and sustainable maritime nation — achieved through the integration of infrastructure, maritime governance, and blue–green industrial development. Building upon the Philippine Nautical Highway, inter-island bridge and railway projects, EO 57 (2024) on maritime governance, and the Blue Economy … Continue reading
When computers run human thinking
Analysis and Opinion By Joe America We are explorers, each and every one of us, moving forward, because there is no backward, into the era in which computers do human thinking. The flood has begun and we already are finding it hard to tell who wrote that, a human or a machine? Pictures and videos … Continue reading
What’s your social media IQ?
Analysis and Opinion By Joe America Social media is the arena into which you walk and you are suddenly accosted by peddlers, hawkers, snake-oil salesmen, politicians, influencers, advertisers, spies, magicians, and thieves. The scientists, professors, and fact dispensers are somewhere out in the hallway down by the popcorn stand chewing their nicely salted and buttered … Continue reading
Philippine government agencies can use AI to leapfrog past their incompetence!
Analysis and Opinion By Joe America Corruption and incompetence are the foundations of the Philippine’s nagging third world condition. The rest of the world moves fast and rich to build modern economies, infrastructure, and citizen care. Irineo B. R. Salazar reminds us that even the best of nations have to make fundamental changes to keep … Continue reading
The Society of Honor by Joe America 