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Greenpeace International issued an appeal to hairdressers and beauty salons yesterday to donate cut hair for a worthy cause, saying indigenous materials such as human hair can be used to absorb the oil spill off Guimaras island. 


Greenpeace campaigner Athena Ballesteros said other indigenous materials such as cogon and rice straw could also act as oil

absorbents even as the group stressed that hair cut today could save the environment tomorrow.
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Jasper Inventor, climate and energy campaigner of Greenpeace-Southeast Asia, said the government should include "clear and real intentions to a massive shift towards clean, renewable energy in the power sector" to achieve a "Green Philippines" in the next five years.
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"There are alternative energy fuels that are adaptable to the Philippines. The present overcapacity is timely to put in these new plants that are not harmful to the environment," said Athena Ballesteros, campaign coordinator for Greenpeace Southeast Asia Phils.

These alternative sources of energy or renewables are wind, solar and biomass.
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Greenpeace International issued an appeal to hairdressers and beauty salons yesterday to donate cut hair for a worthy cause, saying indigenous materials such as human hair can be used to absorb the oil spill off Guimaras island. 


Greenpeace campaigner Athena Ballesteros said other indigenous materials such as cogon and rice straw could also act as oil

absorbents even as the group stressed that hair cut today could save the environment tomorrow.
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"There are alternative energy fuels that are adaptable to the Philippines. The present overcapacity is timely to put in these new plants that are not harmful to the environment," said Athena Ballesteros, campaign coordinator for Greenpeace Southeast Asia Phils.

These alternative sources of energy or renewables are wind, solar and biomass.
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