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Brief History

  The Bayan Muna environmental discussion on Japan-Philippine Economic Partnership Agreement triggered the birth of this environmental alliance.
  The alliance began with the ideas of UP Agham-Youth and UP Haring Ibon members. Then one Wednesday, representatives from Kalikasan-PNE, UP Haring Ibon, UP Agham-Youth, and UP Green League decided to form an environmental alliance that would bind both environmental and non-environmental organizations in UP and outside the university.
  A week after, Meg of Kalikasan-PNE and Cat of UP Agham-Youth discussed the present Philippine environmental situation and an overview of the Visiting Forces Agreement.
  The alliance still did not have any name that time. Aside from the organizations mentioned above, Trixie Concepcion of Earth Island Institute-Philippines, Tin of Ibalon, and Lillian of UP Lakay Mountaineers joined the alliance.
%nbsp Then, after launching a forum on the impact on the environment of the Visiting Forces Agreement, the core members met in UP Green League's tambayan. Anna Celestial of UP AY suggested the name LYFE: League of Youth For the Environment. Tim Decano and Tiffie Uy of UP Haring Ibon worked on the alliance logo.
  As of press time, the member individuals and organizations of LYFE are the following: Tin of UP Ibalon, Lillian Rodriguez of UP Lakay Mountaineers UP Agham-Youth, UP Green League, UP Haring Ibon, UP Mountaineers, UP Takder, Kalikasan-PNE, and PWU-SAVE.

Alliance Logo

  The logo is a construction of man out of leaves and a trunk of a tree and the model of the Earth. The logo represents that it's time that humans protect Earth because we get from it everything that we need.

Unifying Principles

   1. The alliance believes that humankind and society cannot exist without the natural environment, from which we obtain the knowledge and natural resources critical for our survival. Our natural environment, which is of outmost importance to us, demands the need for its care and protection.
  2. Humanity, having the capability both to protect and to destroy the natural environment, plays a central and profound role in the environment. It is also of importance, thus, that all human actions and activities be studied to assess their impacts on our natural environment.
  3. Although the individual acts and inclinations of people may have an impact on the environment, it is those in power and with money that dictate the systematic use and abuse of natural resources that bears a more massive impact on the state of our natural environment.
  4. The alliance believes that organizations, groups, and environment advocates have a big role in informing, raising, and molding the awareness of the community on the environment in general and on particular environmental issues concerning the University, the country and the world.
  5. The alliance stands for the interests of environmental organizations, groups, and advocates in our common goal to protect our natural environment and patrimonial natural resources for the future generations.
  6. The alliance believes that it is in interest of humanity to protect and rehabilitate the environment for future generations. Subject to the approval of the alliance following evaluation based on pre-approved criteria, other sectors and groups may join the alliance in order to advance the change needed that would uphold the protection and practical use of our finite natural resources.
  7. Recognizing the independence and initiative of member organizations, the alliance shall practice consensus building, democratic deliberation and principled unity in all discussions and decisions.
      7a. In instances where there would be an individual(s) or a group(s) which that has a dissenting opinion on a certain environmental issue, the alliance shall brainstorm on the issue for a set period of time. If in case no consensus has been reached, individual organizations shall then make their own stands on that environmental issue.
  8. All member groups and individuals of the alliance shall ascribe to the aforementioned principles enumerated above.

Objectives

   1. The alliance shall be open to all organizations, groups and individual ascribing to its unifying principles and objectives, as provided above.
  2. The alliance shall be in the form of a coordinating body between member organizations and individuals.
  3. Each member organization shall have one official representative to the alliance who will participate in discussions and decision-making. Other respective members of the different organizations that make up the alliance may join in discussions but only the official representatives can take part in decision-making   4. Each member individual shall be duly part of the alliance.
  5. Members of each member organization (aside from the official reps) may sit in during consultations and meetings of the alliance.

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