March and April have been very busy months for The Sustainable Diner: A Key Ingredient for Sustainable Tourism. Apart from the various activities organized by the project, such as the Quezon City and Tagaytay City legs for the Serve Our Planet training series and the Quezon City leg for the Savour Planet media workshop series, schools and corporate partners have also invited the different members of the project team to conduct talks about sustainable dining and environmental conservation, in general.

Last March 29, Pamela Luber, the Integrated Marketing Communications Specialist of The Sustainable Diner project, was invited to speak in front of a classroom full of advertising majors at the De La Salle University - Manila. Her talk, entitled “Communications as a Tool for Conservation,” focused on the importance of utilizing communications strategies and platforms in order to effectively promote to and educate people on the different scientific facts behind environmental conservation. She also talked about her background in advertising, having worked in the industry for three and a half years before pursuing environmental communications as a full-time career, and how she uses her learnings from the industry in order to “advertise” her causes to the Filipino public. Advertising students from the AdCreate Society were then asked to create their own cause-based campaign visuals, slogans, and hashtags at the end of the talk, and some students were asked to share their creations in front of everyone.