PASIG GREEN CITY

Pasig City aims to prove to the world that it can balance the pursuit of economic development and environmental protection. Hence, its leaders envisioned to transform it into Green City.

Is it now a Green City”?

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In the first place, what is a Green City? How does a city attain such status?

Pasig City has metamorphosed into one, what environmental governance practices have helped it to attain that status? In the prestigious 2013 International Awards for Liveable Communities held in Xiamen, China on November 28 to December 3, 2013, Pasig City bagged three gold awards, one silver award, and one bronze award for its various environmental projects. Specifically, it won the gold award for the “Most Liveable Community” (category E for cities within a population not over 400,000).

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IN PASIG WE HAVE RAINFOREST PARK

Pasig Rainforest Park is located in the village of Maybunga. It stretches along Francisco Legaspi Street and is bordered by Summerfield Residences to the west, the village of San Miguel to the south, and West Bank Road to the east, close to Manggahan Floodway and Pasig's border with the municipality of Taytay, Rizal.

Pasig is a highly urbanized city in the Philippines. Located along the eastern border of Metro Manila, Pasig is bordered on the west by Quezon City and Mandaluyong; to the north by Marikina; to the south by Makati, the municipality of Pateros, and Taguig; and to the east by the municipalities of Cainta and Taytay in the province of Rizal.

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There are no surviving firsthand accounts of the history of Pasig before Spanish colonizers arrived in 1573 and established the settlement which they called the Ciudad-Municipal de Pasig.[8]