MOVER EDWIN CHINEL MONARES, DPA

Founder and Executive Director

SAVE ME Movement, Inc.

6th Kampo Kalikasan 2011
April 29 – May 1, 2011
CMC Villa Caramoan, Caramoan, Camarines Sur
The SAVE ME Movement’s Perspective
Purpose of Creation
The Microcosm of Environmental
Destruction
 In trying to find ways to complete his being
(process of becoming) man has become:

•The limitation on material needs to be possessed resulted to

conflict that leads to war for survival (Darwin)
•Contradicting or irreconcilable interest arose (Marx)
ENVIRONMENTAL
STEWARDSHIP
 Concept of Stewardship
• Concept of responsible caretaking; based on the premise that we do
not own resources, but are managers and are responsible to future
generations for their condition -
www.jcpsky.net/Departments/EnvironmentalEd
• The concept that mankind has an ethical responsibility to care for
plants, animals, and the environment as a whole, due to our superior
intellect and power to change the natural world -
www.environment.nelson.com
• A steward is “one who acts as a supervisor or administrator, as of
finances and property, for another or others.” – Webster Dictionary
 Concept of Stewardship
• Stewardship means being in charge of something that is entrusted to you, but
not your own possession,
• It implies accountability to the true owner for what we do with and how we
ensure a return on the things we are in charge of, such as:
• ourselves
• material and natural resources
• knowledge and innovations
• our children, employees
• our portion of business or other organizations
• self-regulation and professional standards –
• Source: Ted Mollegen, an Episcopalian Minister
 Concept of Stewardship

• Stewardship is an alternative to leadership. Stewardship

asks us to be deeply accountable for the outcomes of an
institution, without acting to define purpose of others,
control others, or take care of others. It can be most
simply defined as giving order to the dispersion of power.
• Source: Peter Block in “Stewardship – Choosing Service
over Self-Interest”
 Concept of Stewardship

• Stewardship is a force in the universe

which acts to preserve the universe from
harm – which takes place through the
actions and the will of individuals.
• Source: “The Stewardship
 Stewardship Principles
• Appreciation of the two great gifts that a
wise and loving God has given:
– the earth, with all its natural resources, and
– our own human nature, with its biological,
psychological, social and spiritual capacities
 Stewardship Principles
• Acceptance that God has absolute Dominion
over creation, and that, insofar as human beings
are made in God’s image and likeness, (Imago
Dei) we have been given a limited dominion over
creation and are responsible for its care.
• The gifts of human life and its natural
environment be used with profound respect for
their intrinsic ends.
 Stewardship Principles
• The gift of human creativity especially should be used to
cultivate nature and the environment, recognizing the
limitations of our actual knowledge and the risks of
destroying these gifts
• Accordingly, simply because something can be done
does not necessarily mean that it should be done (the
fallacy of the technological imperative)
• http://www.ascensionhealth.org/ethics/public/key_principles
A Development Paradigm for the 21st
Century in Accordance to Agenda 21
 Development of Full Human Potentials
Human Beings Holistic Science and Appropriate Technology
Cultural, Moral and Spiritual Sensitivity
Self-Determination
National Sovereignty
Gender Sensitivity
Peace, Order and National Unity
Social Justice, Inter-Intra Generational, and
Spatial Equity
Participatory Democracy
Institutional Viability
Viable, Sound and Broad Based Economic
Development
Sustainable Population
Ecological Soundness
Nature Biogeographical Equity and Community
Based Resource Management
Global Cooperation
Agenda 21 Framework 7 Dimensions of Development Principles Implementing Programs
Development

Spiritual All 15 Principles

Development HES- Human Ecological
Security
Development of full human potential
Human Self Determination
Development
Human Being Human MRP- Moral Recovery Prog
Gender Sensitivity STAND – Science and
Development
Sustainable Population Technology Agenda
Bio- geographical Equity and STMP – Science and
Community Based Resource Mngt. Technology Master Plan
Global Cooperation
Social Institutional Viability
Development
MBN – Minimum Basic
Cultural, Moral and Spiritual Needs
Social
Sensitivity IRAP- Integrated Rural
Development
Holistic Science and Appropriate Accessibility Planning
Cultural
Technology LDP – Local Dev’t. Plan
Development

National Sovereignty SRA – Social Reform

Peace and Order and National Unity Agenda
Political Social Justice, Inter-intra- MBN – Minimum Basic
Development generational spatial equity Needs
Participatory Democracy DRIVE – Developing Rural
Nature
Industries and Villages
Enterprises
Ecological Economic
Development Development Viable, Sound and Broad Base
Economic Development
HES – Human Ecological
Global Cooperation
Security
Ecological Existing Gov’t Programs
Development Ecological Soundness
Bio-geographical Equity and
Community Based Resource Mngt.