ABS-CBN Foundation Inc. (AFI) managing director Gina Lopez is one of the featured speakers at the Green Thumb Eco-Conference (GTEC) to be held at the Far Eastern University (FEU) auditorium on February 11, 2012.

Lopez, who is spearheading the Pasig River cleanup in addition to the Save Palawan Movement, will discuss mining in island ecosystems in “Pagmimina, Tama Na: Why We Should Say No to Mining in Palawan and Beyond.”

Keynote speaker Dr. Antonio La Viña, dean of the Ateneo Graduate School of Business, will present “The Untold Stories and Lessons Learned from Ondoy, Pepeng and Sendong: The National Environment Landscape and How Should We Move Forward.”

The GTEC, dubbed the biggest national student eco conference of the year, is organized by FEU, Parrot’s Beak Social Enterprise and eVentures Management and Marketing Services with the support of AFI, the Clean Up the Philippines Movement and the Department of Environment and Natural Resources. It aims to bring together students, practicing environmentalists, policy influencers, private sector stakeholders and the academe in convergence, with the goal of empowering the youth sector about what they can do to save the planet.

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