DR.

JUSTINO ARBOLEDA: COCO TECHNOLOGIES

Outstanding Agri-Entrepreneur, Winner of many national and international

awards

Mr Arboleda was born in

Guinobatan Albay as the 9th
of 13 children. Working his
way through school, he was a
consistent honour student,
eventually winning a two year
scholarship to the University
of the Philippines. Whilst
attending this university he
was awarded a scholarship to
Tokyo University of Education
where he completed his
Bachelorship and Master of Science in Agricultural Engineering. He went on
to receive his PhD at Tsukuba University, Japan.

Mr Arboleda began Blackbeads Corporation, a successful semi-

conductor exporter which currently employs 250 people. Leaving his brother
to manage the company, Justino returned to academe as an instructor at
Bicol College of Agriculture. Over 15 years he rose to become Dean, a
position he held for 11 years, and University Vice-president for 2 years.

Moving back into industry, Mr Arboleda began Jukoben Enterprises and

later Coco Technologies Corporation. This pioneering company assists
coconut farmers by producing coconut fibre geotextiles which are used in
bio-engineering construction in the Philippines.

Coco Technologies has gone on to win many national and international

awards, including the Presidential Golden Shell Award and the Global Eco-
tech Award from the World Expo in Aichi, Japan in 2005. Coco Tech won the
World Challenge Contest for the Best Grassroots Project conducted by the
BBC, Newsweek and Shell in 2005. 

Coco Technologies Corporation (Coco Tech), a pioneer in the Philippine

coconut fiber industry, has joined Business Call to Action (BctA) with a
pledge to increase production of its innovative products derived from
coconut husks by P150,000,000 while doubling the number of its
subcontractor producer households to 2,500. The company has committed to
commissioning 24,000 low cost mattresses, 50,000 sheets of low-cost fiber
board and 24,000 bags of organic fertilizer each year by 2020.

Coconut is one of the most important crops in the Philippines: the

country is the second largest coconut producer in the world. Yet Philippine
upland coconut farmers are among the country’s poorest people. Few have
secure tenure over the land on which they cultivate or receive any support
from the government.

As the Dean of Bicol University’s College of Agriculture, Dr. Justino

Arboleda wanted to understand why his province, Bicol, was the second
poorest in the Philippines despite its rich abundance of coconut trees.
Determined to remove his province from the list of the country’s poorest, Dr.
Arboleda found a way to maximize the region’s most abundant resource.
Without external funding, he took a huge risk, leaving his stable academic
career to establish his own company, which pioneered the manufacture of
coco fiber products for preventing soil erosion.

Coco Tech developed technologies and an inclusive business model

focused around the production of coconut waste materials by independent
subcontractors in impoverished farming communities. It established a
central coconut fiber processing plant and trained poor farming households
to make twine and weave nets in their homes. These nets are delivered to
road construction and mining projects to prevent the erosion of soil.

The company has actively promoted its technology to both the private
sector and the government. Now, 25 years after the company’s founding,
coconut husk-derived erosion-control nets are required in government and
private construction.

As part of its expansion plan, the company’s current initiative involves

developing new coco-husk based products such as fiber boards for housing
and coco-fiber mattresses. In addition, Coco Tech has begun to formulate an
organic fertilizer that is effective and affordable for small-scale farmers to
use over the long term.

Coco Tech is not only planning to increase production of its product

line but has also opened up the technology to other companies and farm
cooperatives by teaching and encouraging them to copy its inclusive
business model.
 ROLLY PALADIO: WATER SUPPLEMENTED STOVE

The Philippines is home to may great

Pinoy inventors. There are a lot of
circumstances where Filipinos showcase their
great inventions to the world. However, because
this kind of activity is a lot more expensive and
needs huge funds, the Philippine government
has a hard time supporting it. The reason for
Filipino inventions to not be entirely known in
the world.

But there are those inventions as well who

made it to the records. Some of them are
Armalite, Moon Buggy, and Fluorescent Lamp.
But these recognitions didn’t go smoothly as
well and faced a lot of controversies as other
nationalities were claiming that they are the
ones who discovered it.

Recent Invention

Recently, another Filipino inventor

from Cotabato City made it to the headline
when he invented a water-supplemented
stove. Rolly Palladio has made cooking
affordable by making an eco-friendly stove
that is supplied or powered by water.
Palladio named his invention as “water-
supplemented stove”, a stove that only
needs water to work, not gas, not even
electricity.

Moreover, Palladio emphasized that his invention can work with any
water as long as it will not discharge C02. The water-supplemented stove
has a lot of benefits not only to users but to the environment as well.
 The said invention lesser the amounts of burning fossil fuel being used
that is harmful to the environment. And because it only uses water to work,
it’s a lot cheaper and affordable for the users.

ROBERT CORNELIUS MURPHY: INTERNET ENTREPRENEUR

Robert Cornelius Murphy (born July

19, 1988) is an American Internet
entrepreneur and software engineer. He is
the co-founder and the CTO of the
American multinational technology and socia
l media company Snap Inc., which he
created (as Snapchat Inc.) with Evan
Spiegel and Reggie Brown while they were
students at Stanford University.

He was named as one of "100 Most

Influential People in 2014" by Time. In
2015, Murphy was first listed and became
the second-youngest billionaire in the world
by Forbes.

Murphy was born on July 19, 1988, in Berkeley, California. the son of

a Filipino-born mother, Rosie L. Go-Murphy, and a United States-born father,
Richard Cornelius Murphy Jr. His parents are both government employees
in California. His mother grew up in the Philippines, and emigrated to the
United States.

Murphy grew up in Berkeley, California and was educated at the

School of the Madeleine, a private Roman Catholic grade school there. He
received his secondary education at Saint Mary's College High School, also a
private Catholic high school in Berkeley.

Murphy graduated in 2010 from Stanford University in Stanford,

California, where he received a Bachelor of Science degree in mathematical
and computational Science. He was also a member of the Kappa
Sigma fraternity along with Evan Spiegel and Reggie Brown.

Career

Murphy was recruited by Spiegel after they finished working on a failed

startup called Future Freshman, a website that helped high school kids get
advice when applying to colleges. In 2011, Murphy co-founded a
disappearing-image messaging app called Picaboo. The name was later
changed to Snapchat. After graduating from Stanford, Murphy spent a year
working as a software engineer at Revel Systems (an iPad point of sale
system for restaurants). Until Snapchat could secure venture capital funding,
he used half of his paycheck to cover the cost of Snapchat's server bills.

At Snapchat, Murphy has led the engineering and research teams.

Murphy has also worked with Snapchat's Snap Labs team, which
produced Spectacles camera glasses in 2018. At the time of Snapchat's IPO
in 2017, Murphy and Spiegel held over 45% of the company's total stock.
They also held over 70% of the voting power.

In February 2017, Murphy and Spiegel pledged to donate up to

13,000,000 shares of Class A common stock to their newly created Snap
Foundation, which will support the arts, education and youth non-profits,
over the course of 15–20 years.

Murphy is a native of California In 2015, he was recorded as the

1,250th-richest person in the world, by Forbes Magazine. In 2015, Murphy
ranked as the #15 U.S. Richest Entrepreneurs Under 40. As of 2016, he was
ranked #374 on the Forbes 400. In 2018, Murphy purchased the former
Pacific Palisades estate of "Green Acres" actor Eddie Albert for the asking
price of $19.5 million.
 JOSEFINO CAMISO: POLAR OCEANOGRAPHY

Josefino Comiso is a
senior research scientist at the
Cryospheric Sciences
Laboratory of the Goddard
Space Flight Center.  He
received his Bachelor of
Science degree in Physics from
the University of the
Philippines, Masters Degree in
Physics from Florida State
University and Ph. D. in
physics from the University of
California in Los Angeles. 

He held a post-doctoral
position at the University of
Virginia in Charlottesville and
worked as a senior consultant
for Computer Sciences
Corporation before joining NASA Goddard Space Flight Center.  At Goddard,
his research led to new insights into many important processes in the polar
regions including: (a) deep ocean convection and the influence of polynyas
and Odden on bottom water formation; (b) phytoplankton blooms and
relationships with the sea ice cover and (c) climate change signals as
revealed by the changing sea ice cover and accelerated warming in the
Arctic region.

He was the chief scientist in many NASA aircraft missions in the Arctic
and Antarctic that included a flight over a nuclear submarine near the North
Pole that demonstrated the feasibility of measuring sea ice thickness from
space. He has been a member of satellite sensor teams and has developed
algorithms for the retrieval of sea ice concentration, surface temperature,
and clouds.  He has been the recipient of several NASA awards including the
NASA Exceptional Scientific Achievement Medal, outstanding scientist awards
by professional societies and institutions and has served as visiting scientist
in many international institutes.  He is the author or co-author of 5 books,20
book chapters and more than 130 refereed journal articles and is a
coordinating lead author of the IPCC/WG1 AR5 (2014) report on "Climate
Change 2013: The Physical Science Basis."
 

Research Interest includes (a) the detection of climate signals from

historical satellite data; (b) the role of Odden and polynyas in ocean
convection and bottom water formation;  (c)  air-sea-ice interactions and
biological processes in the polar regions; and (d)  radiative transfer modeling
studies and satellite algorithms for sea ice and ice sheets.  Expertise: Polar
Oceanography, Sea Ice, Climate Change, Satellite Remote Sensing in
the microwave, infrared, and visible regions and Particle Physics.
 

 .  Continue to do reearch on the quantification of observed changes of

physical parameters in the polar regions using multisensory techniques
in order to fulfill the objectives of a NASA funded Terra/Aqua Science
proposal.
 .  Continue to do research on net primary production and the
monitoring of hot spots in the Arctic Ocean as a NASA funded
participant of the Distributed Biological Observatory (DBO). 
 .  Collaborate on the study of the impact of climate and environmental
changes on he vegetation of frozen regions in the Arctic with emphasis
on the Yamal Penninsula and adjacent Russian region.
 .  Continue to enhance the Bootstrap algorithm for sea ice
concentration using AMSR2 and AMSR-E and do comparative studies
with other algorithms and high resolution satellite data.
 .  Present results of research in workshops and conferences and
prepare journal articles to be submitted for publication.
 .  Continue educational outreach including by serving as reviewer of
journal articles and scientific proposals and also by giving lectures and
seminars to students and a more general scientific audience.  Continue
to maintain websites in Neptune/Cryospheric Sciences on sea ice
changes and updated DBO parameters.

 Instructor in physics at the University of the Philippines in Diliman,

Quezon City, Philippines and teaching assistant/associate at Florida State
University and UCLA while in graduate school.  Have given lectures as Guest
Professor at Chiba University in Tokyo, Japan and at the University of the
Philippines, Diliman  and  Mariano Marcos State University, Batac in the
Philippines.

EDUARDO SAN JUAN: LUNAR ROVER

Mechanical engineer Eduardo San

Juan (aka The Space Junkman) worked on
the team that invented the Lunar Rover,
or Moon Buggy. San Juan is considered
the primary designer of the Lunar Rover.
He was also the designer of the
Articulated Wheel System. Prior to the
Apollo program, San Juan worked on the
Intercontinental Ballistic Missile (ICBM).

First Use of the Moon Buggy

In 1971, the Moon Buggy was first
used during the Apollo 12 landing to
explore the moon. The Lunar Rover was
a battery-powered, four-wheeled rover also used on the moon in the last
three missions of the American Apollo program (15, 16, and 17) during 1971
and 1972. The Lunar Rover was transported to the moon on the Apollo Lunar
Module (LM) and, once unpacked on the surface, could carry one or
two astronauts, their equipment, and lunar samples. The three LRVs remain
on the moon.
What Is a Moon Buggy Anyway?

The Moon Buggy weighed 460

pounds and was designed to hold
a payload of 1,080 pounds. The
frame was 10 feet long with a
wheelbase of 7.5 feet. The vehicle
was 3.6 feet tall. The frame was
made of aluminum alloy tubing
welded assemblies and consisted of a
three-part chassis that was hinged in
the center so it could be folded up
and hung in the Lunar Module
Quadrant 1 bay.
 It had two side-by-side foldable seats made of tubular aluminum with
nylon webbing and aluminum floor panels. An armrest was mounted
between the seats, and each seat had adjustable footrests and a Velcro-
fastened seat belt. A large mesh dish antenna was mounted on a mast on
the front center of the rover. The suspension consisted of a double horizontal
wishbone with upper and lower torsion bars and a damper unit between the
chassis and upper wishbone.

Eduardo San Juan graduated from Mapua Institute of Technology. He

then studied nuclear engineering at the University of Washington. In 1978,
San Juan received one of the Ten Outstanding Men (TOM) awards in science
and technology.

JAYME NAVARRO: CONVERSION OF PLASTIC TO FUEL

Jayme Navarro, a Filipino

inventor from Bacolod, has
discovered a way to convert
plastic trash into usable fuel,
namely gasoline, diesel, and
kerosene. Navarro came across
the method when he was trying
to convert plastic waste back into
its basic components and original
form.

The process, called

Pyrolysis, starts by drying the plastics, shredding them into smaller pieces,
and heating them in a thermal chamber. The chamber has very low oxygen,
so the plastic actually melts instead of burning.

The melted plastic produces vapors, which is then passed into cooling
pipes and distilled into a liquid. This liquid is chemically identical to regular
fuel, but has lower sulfur content, making it burn cleaner. With low
production costs, the fuel is also around 10-20% cheaper. Aside from using
actual waste plastic in the production of cheaper fuel, the process is also
proven to be environment-friendly.
 Navarro and his company, Poly-green Technology and Resources, Inc.,
which is based in the Payatas area where most of the plastic waste comes
from, produces around 1,600 liters of fuel from recycling two metric tons of
plastic daily.
The process of Pyrolysis has been around for quite some time, but
Navarro created their own unique system and has an approved patent with
the Philippine Intellectual Property Office.

In 2008, his research was even awarded the winner of the Outstanding
Creative Research category by the Department of Science and Technology
(DOST). Navarro has plans of putting up additional facilities in Rizal and the
other surrounding provinces of Metro Manila, with the coordination of local
government units.  
Wouldn’t you say that Navarro deserves more media mileage in order
for him to bring his work to the forefront? Backed with more investors,
large-scale implementation of Navarro’s system would cement it as a viable
alternative fuel source. It will significantly reduce not just the country’s
garbage problem, but also pollution from vehicle emissions, and would
definitely help save the environment by providing all Filipinos with a cheaper
source of fuel.

NARCISO MOSUELA: SUPERKALAN

Narciso Mosuela, 76, has received citations

from different categories such as for
excellence, entrepreneurship and
invention. Filipino Inventor Society Inc.’s
national award in 1984, top seller in the
Ramot ti Aminanan (Root from the North)
Exposition in 2003, the Department of Trade
and Industry’s Outstanding MSME (micro,
small and medium enterprise) in 2008, and
Globe’s top Masigasig Award in 2008 are
only some of the awards he has received for
his many years of innovating things that
could help his people.
 But from the many awards he has, he is best known for his invention,
superkalan. Superkalan is a stove made of concrete and flattened aluminum
using wood instead of petroleum. It has been a fixture in many Filipino
homes during the past 20 years.

Mosuela manufactures superkalans in his facility in barangay General

Terrero. In addition to this, he also makes compact mobile threshers, also
one of his innovations, in his compound in barangay Ubbog.  Both products
are on display in his barangay San Blas property.

He made the superkalan as he was inspired by an elderly wife, cooking

in a hole on the ground and commented on how hard it was to cook.
Mosuela promised the older lady he would make her a stove that would
make it easier for her to cook.

True to his word, Mosuela fashioned a portable stove with feet and a

chimney made of cement and steel and gave the prototype to her. He took a
long way to being perfect with his superkalan. He made some adjustments
and rechanneled the smoke directly out the chimney attachment until it
works well. To date, the superkalan inventor thinks he has sold 20,000
stoves. His superkalan which sold for P2,000 in the early days now sells for
P4,600.

With this prize, he guarantees the longevity of his products by giving a

lifetime warranty for repairs; replacement parts are extra. Mosuela did not
begin his career as an inventor-entrepreneur. He started with different
careers before he made it to the top. What makes him successful with his
innovations is his passion to create new things which began in his childhood
years. His inventions not only give him honors but also help people in his
community by employing them manufacturing his crafts. 

ENGINEER BRYAN YUSON: PHILIPPINE TRAIN

Engineer Bryan Yuson- A young and dynamic engineer who had

invented the first Philippine train that was proudly launched in Cebu, a
Visayan province in the Philippines. Tremendously, this humble but efficient
scientific invention is presumed to be the “problem solver of traffic
congestion” in an Asian country like the Philippines.

Significantly, this kind of mass transportation system is really

environmental friendly because it has lesser emissions of carbon. The design
prototype of this train makes use of triple-charging systems, a solar panel,
pedals and quite a number of windmills. “How does his world –class
invention work?” .

The renewable energy which comes from the triple system output of
the locally -made train will be swiftly charged, using the six batteries which
are connected to the train itself. Then, this will be further boosted by the 24-
volt  motor that will make the train run  fast, safe and convenient