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Want to grow your own vegetables but don’t have much space?Aquaponicsletsyou do that and lets you raise fish too!

An integration of aquaculture (raising fish in artificial environment) and hydroponics (growing vegetables without using soil), aquaponics is a system wherein naturally occurring bacteria converts fish wastes into fertilizer for the plants while the plants filter water for the fish.

 An aquaponic system is basically composed of growing bed, fish tank, a biofiltration tank where bacteria can grow and convert fish wastes into plant food, and a pump to circulate the water throughout the system

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“Local engineers, architects, surveyors, accountants and medical practitionersneed to register themselves as ‘ASEAN professionals,’” according to  Teresita Manzala, chairperson of the Professional Regulations Commission (PRC) in a forum organized by the National Academy of Science and Technology, an advisory body of the Department of Science and Technology, last August 13 at the Traders Hotel.

The ASEAN professionals registration is part of the Mutual Recognition Arrangements (MRA) to keep professionals competitive within and outside the region as theASEAN integration pushes through in 2015.

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For National Academy of Science and Technology (NAST) Academician Antonio Miguel L. Dans, no amount of health education or counselling can make people change their lifestyles  to preventnon-communicable diseases (NCD) such as cancer, heart disease, stroke, COPD, and dementia.

Instead, Dr. Dans, a cardiologist and University of the Philippines College of Medicine professor, proposes making changes in the environment in order to make a person change his lifestyle and health status.  Environment refers not only to things around people but also to policies that impact their lives.