The Mercast | Plastic Free Mermaid talks Change Making

Beekeeping is becoming more popular today. Keeping your own bees is indeed appealing but the messy process of harvesting honey can stop you from actually doing it. Harvesting honey can really make you as “busy as a bee”, not only is it messy but you’re also disturbing the bees. If you want to experience the joy of harvesting pure, unprocessed honey minus the mess - Cedar Anderson, the co-founder and inventor of Flow Hive has the solution for that! Join me today as Cedar and I talk about Flow Hive, a

Join me today as we talk about mushrooms with Julian Mitchell, one of the co-founders of Life Cykel, an evolutionary mushroom biotech company that uses waste and mushroom to create healthy medicinal products and technologies! Now, doesn’t that sound amazing!? In this episode, not only will you learn that mushrooms are good for you, you’ll also learn about its amazing healing powers that benefits us and our planet. Julian will also talk about the wonderful things you never knew about this magic

The Philippines is one of the many countries around Asia that continue to struggle in managing non-recyclable waste or single-use plastics such as sachets. To address this problem, environmental groups insist that such waste shouldn’t be addressed through a linear waste management approach, but through Zero Waste management system. In this episode, Asia Pacific Coordinator for GAIA, Froilan Grate is here with me today to share his knowledge about the zero-waste cities program and how it can help a

In Indonesia, locals use rivers for washing, bathing, and drinking. But many are unaware of how contaminated the water is due to industrial waste from industrial factories and irresponsible dumping. The river water is so polluted, eating fish from it can cause food poisoning and even death! To stop pollution from flowing into the Indian rivers, Prigi an Indonesian scientist turned radical environmental activist, made it his mission and purpose to make the river water clean and let other people know

Imagine a world free from plastic. Wonderful isn’t it?   Our vision of a plastic-free world is possible and it’s slowly happening. There are many amazing people working hard to make this happen and one of them is Emma! Emma is a Plastic Pollution Campaigner at Friends of the Earth. I met her from the Break Free from Plastic Global Leadership meeting and she’s here to talk about her involvement with Break Free from Plastic and the work that they’re doing to reduce single-use plastic.   In this

Our planet is drowning in a never-ending pile of plastic! And people are showing no signs of slowing down or reducing their consumption. Businesses are still active in producing single-use or disposable plastic products, and it has become an integral part for others to consume it. We are definitely in plastic crisis! Plastic pollution is not only harming our planet but also us humans. Glady, this problem can be solved if we collectively take action and aspire to create a world that’s free from