24/04/2025
Earth Day 2025 (April 22)
Protect the Pasig River! No to PAREX!
Graphics: Karl De Santos
This April we celebrate Earth Month, a time when we put the spotlight on our one and only collective home - Planet Earth. Everywhere around us we are witness to the destruction of nature in different forms, most especially in urban locations like Manila.
One of the most alarming developments in Manila is the planned Pasig River Expressway or PAREX. Together with SALEX and NALEX, and the Skyway connector, these expressways are gray concrete monsters that are slowly strangling the city of Manila, placing entire neighbors under darkness, creating massive heatsinks across neighborhoods, and making Manila an ugly and dystopian city.
PAREX is poised to destroy the Pasig River, damaging the environment, bringing emissions along its paths, and endangering our cultural and heritage treasures along its paths.
So this Earth Day, we continue our call since 2021: Protect the Pasig River! No to PAREX!
Events:
Manila Parks Tour (New Event - Limited)
April 26, 2025 (Saturday) | 9AM-12:30PM | Fee: Php 700
Click here to register: https://forms.gle/EbZbyiTSwsyad1QT7
Learn about natural heritage and the development of urban parks in the City of Manila with us on April 26, 2025 (9AM-12:30PM). We will be highlighting certain trees and flora within the area as we visit different forms of public spaces.
On the following day, there's also LRT-1 Transit Tour: North (a few slots left!)
April 27, 2025 (Sunday)| 9AM-12:30PM | Fee: Php 600
Register here: https://forms.gle/EbZbyiTSwsyad1QT7