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This include the filing a petition with the Supreme Court against mandatory covid-19 vaccination, which was ultimately thrown out on a technicality.

He was a prolific writer across many platforms. Perlas subsequently become a technical adviser to the Presidential Commission on the Philippine Nuclear Power Plant, Office of the President of the Philippines, where he was instrumental in stopping the operation of the fully constructed and operational Bataan Nuclear Power Plant, a $2.2 billion project plagued with design, construction, location, and corruption problems.

Shortly thereafter, Perlas was appointed member of the national technical panel overseeing the regulation of pesticide use in Philippine agriculture.

It is being used in dozens of universities in the Philippines and various parts of the world.

Presidential Candidate in 2010

On June 17, 2009, Nicanor Perlas announced his intentions to become one of the candidates for the Philippine Presidential Elections in May 2010. Now divorced. The 1st National Conference and Festival on “Mobilizing Excellence for Creating a Visionary Philippines” was January 21–23, 2005 at the Cultural Center of the Philippines, in partnership with over 40 organizations and networks.

Perlas was the chief facilitator and co-founder of the ABS-CBN "Forum on the Filipino Future", held on December 16, 2004.

Agenda 21 is a program of action into the 21st century for bringing the Earth into a sustainable future. With the highest honors, he graduated Bachelor of Science in Agriculture, major in Agronomy and minor in Agricultural Economics in the said educational institution in 1972.

All these efforts were the fruition of early advocacies in sustainable agriculture when he was still an agricultural journalist and columnist at the Modern Agriculture and Industry-Asia, where he pioneered the first monthly articles on ecological agriculture in the Asian context. While in this capacity, he simultaneously mobilized and headed a national effort that resulted in the banning of 32 hazardous pesticide formulations in the Philippines.

He was also an instigator for Lunas Pilipinas Coalition, a group devoted to helping the Philippines heal from the pandemic.

He was very active during the pandemic fighting for the rights of Filipinos. He finished his elementary education at the Ateneo de Manila University in 1964 and finished his secondary education in the same school in 1968.

During his presidential campaign, he, together with others, founded MISSION (Movement of Imaginals for Sustainable Societies through Initiatives, Organising and Networking), a cultural, spiritual, scientific movement of individuals in civil society, government, and business. More recently, Perlas focus has been on Artificial Intelligence, stating that “If properly developed and aligned with the values of humanity, AI will bring tremendous benefits to society.

It was adopted by the participating governments of the world in the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development (UNCED), otherwise known as the Earth Summit, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil in June 1992.

Perlas has conducted hundreds of training sessions in the Philippines and abroad on a wide range of topics convergent with his writings.

The successful negotiations prevented the premature exposure and economic decline of 3 million Philippine rice farmers to subsidized and artificially cheap rice coming from other countries.

Projects and offices

Perlas is the co-founder, president and executive director of the Center for Alternative Development Initiatives or CADI, in Metro Manila and Iloilo City, where he guides research and policy work and develops initiatives on globalization, threefolding and their impacts on civil society, cultural power and sustainable development.

He is also the co-founder and spokesperson of Karangalan which hosted a series of national conferences highlighting important global and national innovations and achievements by Filipinos in many disciplines and fields.

GN3 advances profound societal transformation towards integral sustainable development on the basis of socially-engaged spirituality and deep substantive inner change.

Co-founder and spokesperson for Tindog Pilipinas! Together with colleagues at the International Alliance for Sustainable Agriculture or IASA, he coined the term sustainable agriculture in 1983, a term which has received wide use and currency until today.

Perlas was the chief negotiator for a network of national networks, which involved 5000 organizations, that successfully stopped the agenda of radical and one sided liberalization in the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation or APEC.

He was passionate about advancing the Philippines and her people. During this time, he founded the first ecological society in the Philippines. While spending his high school years at the Ateneo, he was the Athlete of the Year and the recipient of the Silver Medal of the school's Math and Science Club in 1968.

Perlas pursued his undergraduate studies at the College of Agriculture in Xavier University - Ateneo de Cagayan.