Technoparks

                  Research park, science park, science and technology park, technopolis, industrial park, and business park. These are the types of science park which are composed of buildings and infrastractures, built for a common good - to resesarch and develop things from which the park's entities are engaged.

                    These parks offer a number of shared resources, such as uninterruptible power supply (UPS), tellecommunication hubs, reception and security, management offices, restaurants, bank offices, convention center, parking, internal transportation, entertainment and sports facilities, etc.

                     In this way, parks are encouraged by our local governments in order to attract new companies to towns, and to expand their tax base and employment opportunities to citizens.

Biñan City

             The City of Biñan –houses one of the first schooling of our national hero, Dr. Jose Rizal, and known for its native delicacies such as the famous rice cakes topped with cheese or butter,locally called and nationally acclaimed as “Puto Biñan”. Approved by the former president Gloria Macapagal Arroyo, Biñan took off last February 6, 2009 to become a new component city of our country.

 At its very prompt state, the city has grown into an industrialized and well-developed community. It is comprised with two of the country’s largest industrial parks namely Laguna Technopark Inc. and Laguna International Industrial Park (LIIP) which covers local and foreign multinational companies that contributes to the economic growth of the city and to the country as well.

Together with my proponent Carl Matulac, we will focus about the plastic ban being brought up by our hometown to relieve problems such as flooding and waste management that is roughly to be resolved in time. Implemented by the City Mayor, Hon. Marlyn “Len” Alonte-Naguiat, Biñan City now has a Municipal Order No. -03 which showcases “Balik Basket, Balik Bayong Tayo” Ordinance that could probably halt the problem of my hometown which is actually inclined to flooding because of plastics which are usually disposed improperly wherein it could be recycled first in order to reuse it to prevent waste products. The ordinance implies that Biñanenses should be morally responsible enough in having a greener living through the use of organic products whenever they get to purchase goods from the market. Reusable bags such as totes, baskets, bayong orkatsa will do in roaming around the city while shopping especially in the public market. Oxo-biodegradable plastics are now specially produced to ease green purchasing in line with the ordinance. And in line with this, fast food chains, restaurants and shopping malls also gave their whole heart in helping in the achievement of the order through the alteration of the use of plastics to paper materials in their operations and also initialized the stoppage of the use of straw.

We came into thinking on finding ways on how we will study and finally encourage our community to cooperate with, by means of educating them on how plastics affects the environment and keeping them familiarize with the technicalities and the factors affecting the environment that they might not have been encountered yet. 

Are we on a sustainable path?

If ever I will be sent into future in disguise of a poor kid, these will be the possible words that I could utter: “Lucky are they to eat with a spoonful of rice and a viand of their choice, to have a privilege in going to school to learn things that are never been thought at home, to be accepted by their society from which they think they belong, to have a diverse ecosystem where they can still see animals under the shades of a clear blue sky, and a freedom for them to choose without such boundaries.” But as we see, everything changes so fast and it’s quite alarming to know that many of us are still unaware. We still have environmental issues to work out, economic crisis to solve and socio-political concerns to deal with, yet, are we on a sustainable path?

Based on the definition of United Nations Global Issues, sustainable development is a development that meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs. That is why we need to find ways to survive without entirely depleting the resources of the Earth. We need to explore more on about how to solve such issues in life through technological advancement. Centuries had passed already, some powerful men lived without having any apprehensions about what could they possibly contribute to the future, but still we have these resources and rich cultures because of their rational way of thinking. Their way of living is like a tip of survival from which we learned from. Their successions and critical way of living made way for us to grab these innovations in life.

 We, the people of 21^st century, are now responsible on how we will deal respect with the future generation by means of understanding the pathways for integration of sustainable development. We can still live with the same lifestyles that we have because it is a natural thing for us on how we survive for a living. But still, we should consider the three dimensions which include; (1) the viability between economic and environmental interests;(2) bearability between environmental and social elements;(3) and equity between social and economic elements in order for us to attain sustainability.