Featuring the 1st environment-friendly 'earth chapel' made of mud and bamboo built in Bacolod
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A month before Earth Day on April 22, the Philippines' first "Earth Chapel" was opened this week at the Greenheart Hermitage inside the University of Negros Occidental-Recoletos campus in Bacolod City.
The chapel was built with indigenous and recycled materials such as mud, bamboo, rice straw and stalk, cogon grass, old wine bottles, and discarded tiles and wood.
Apart from being built with sustainable materials, the chapel also incorporates renewable energy, according to The Climate Reality Project official presenter Bro. Tagoy Jakosalem, who did the interior of the chapel.
"The chapel is the first solar-powered religious edifice in the country. It is envisioned both to have a sound spiritual and environmental atmosphere, and LED lights are used to illumine the interior. Wine bottles are incorporated in the structure, natural lighting effects emanating from the green-colored wine bottles, serving as recyclable stained-glass windows," Jakosalem said in an article posted on the Catholic Bishops' Conference of the Philippines news site.
The Climate Reality Project in the Philippines promotes climate change adaptation and mitigation through observance of 8-Rs: reduce, reuse, recycle, repair, refuse, rethink, rainforest and reconnect.
Taken from website with pic at: http://www.gmanetwork.com/news/story/252334/lifestyle/design/1st-environment-friendly-earth-chapel-made-of-mud-and-bamboo-built-in-bacolod
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A month before Earth Day on April 22, the Philippines' first "Earth Chapel" was opened this week at the Greenheart Hermitage inside the University of Negros Occidental-Recoletos campus in Bacolod City.
The chapel was built with indigenous and recycled materials such as mud, bamboo, rice straw and stalk, cogon grass, old wine bottles, and discarded tiles and wood.
Apart from being built with sustainable materials, the chapel also incorporates renewable energy, according to The Climate Reality Project official presenter Bro. Tagoy Jakosalem, who did the interior of the chapel.
"The chapel is the first solar-powered religious edifice in the country. It is envisioned both to have a sound spiritual and environmental atmosphere, and LED lights are used to illumine the interior. Wine bottles are incorporated in the structure, natural lighting effects emanating from the green-colored wine bottles, serving as recyclable stained-glass windows," Jakosalem said in an article posted on the Catholic Bishops' Conference of the Philippines news site.
The Climate Reality Project in the Philippines promotes climate change adaptation and mitigation through observance of 8-Rs: reduce, reuse, recycle, repair, refuse, rethink, rainforest and reconnect.
