A Technology-Oriented Environmental and People-oriented Developmental NGO
People are the Means and Ends of Genuine Development. NATURE can be UNLIMITED if you recognize first it has its inherent LIMITS. This paradox, and even Nature’s Entropy or the tendency of complex systems to implode, can be reversed through human creativity.
Operating as a non-government outfit, our strategies are capsulized in our name—a contraction of "ATIN ITO" (IT IS OURS). It is distinguished from "AKIN ITO" (This is Mine) or "AMIN ITO" (Ours, excluding you). ATIN'TO means IT IS OURS TOGETHER, including you and everybody else. It emphasizes the stakeholder concept as both the means and ends of development.
"When Short of CASH, make ANGKAS and BAKAS—meaning RIDE ON and PARTNERING."
World Bank reports estimated that Metro Manila incurs about $392 Million in health costs from particulate matter (PM10) exposure alone. Jeepney and tricycle drivers suffer the highest prevalence of chronic obstructive pulmonary diseases (32.5%) and tuberculosis (17.5%).
Which causes pollution more? Very likely both are guilty. Motorists are unfairly penalized and made to believe lack of maintenance is the only cause. However, studies show that reducing Light Cycle Oil (LCO)—a waste by-product refineries blend into fuel—can remove 80% of emissions. In the Philippines, LCO content is believed to be as high as 15%.
A product of UP Diliman Economics and a veteran journalist. Although not an engineer to be involved in technologies, he is an IMAGINEER and strategic thinker. He believes that instead of being solely MARKET-oriented, countries must be more PRODUCTION-oriented—focusing on "INCREASING THE PIE” rather than squabble over distribution or SHARING of the PIE issues. Production is more win-win ECONOMICs, while distribution issues end up with destructive POLITICAL conflicts and winners and losers.
A Mechanical Engineer and Finance Management graduate from De La Salle University. He quit big high corporate jobs at Caltex and San Miguel Corp to go full-time into clean air advocacy and transport cooperative organizing. He spearheaded ATIN’TO’s many past activities like those Clean Air Tech Forum Series; Clean Air Watch, Clean Air Tech Quest on applied research on various technologies with the transport sector in partnerships with institutions; and Clean Air Koop Organizing and Linkaging.
A business and accountancy product of the Philippine University of the Philippines (PUP). Became an entrepreneur who first introduced China bus names in the Philippines, which was dominated earlier by Japanese and Korean brands. He even brought local businessmen to China and go into public bus business, but they never invited him to share in the business, but he gained more the goodwill and trust of China bus suppliers. He has been in the forefront of developing food and agriculture-based ventures that will form the backbone of ATIN’TO’s “plowback resource” programs.
With the entry of electric vehicles, we have shifted tack to focus on E-trikes to replace old, dilapidated tricycles, removing the complex problems of fossil fuel-based technologies.