Episode 43 - October 31, 2012 Guest: Bert Guevara

It is apropos that Bert would grace my last broadcast for the year. He has been a true kindred spirit in the protection of the environment. He is relentless in his pursuit of ways to better the lives of the most ordinary folk and tireless in coming up with innovative projects to support them. Bert and I are in agreement that this advocacy for the environment is a lifetime commitment that neither money nor naysayers can stamp out. Our voices will be heard in whatever medium will carry us through- be it radio, or the internet.
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Episode 42 - October 30, 2012 Guest: Ana Alfonso

Ana is the consummate educator in that she approaches teaching in a holistic way- mind, body, and spirit. That she is able to integrate the intellectually-challenged children (who are called special) with regular students, and blend them into one harmonious classroom, not only fills up one group with compassion and empathy, but embraces the other with the feeling of being wanted and understood. She also credits the atmosphere in a happy family for the values one sees in kind and good people.
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Episode 41 - October 29. 2012 Guest: Lydia Robledo

I love having Lydia as guest. She is a housewife who first dabbled in bird-watching, then started taking fantastic photographs of butterflies beautiful enough to be included in a book of book about butterflies, and now lectures on native trees and the correct way to reforestation. She did it all because she was committed and cared enough to understand the bottom line of the life cycle of living things.
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Episode 40 - October 26, 2012 Guest: Jimmy Dy-Liacco

I've said time and again how Jimmy cured me of the constant migraines I have suffered from grade school through adulthood. How? by telling me how dehydrated I've been! He does it again in our interview tonight when he dispenses such simple solutions to high blood pressure, diabetes, heart ailments and others. He thoroughly believes that the food we eat is truly the best medicine to cure the body of its various ailments.
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Episode 39 - October 25, 2012 Guest: John Paul Olivares

I heard of John Paul through Facebook. He has an umbrella NGO called Green Agenda where they're sort of a clearing house for the different environment groups that can be sourced out to whomever needs help. He is an artist, educator, writer/advocate. We talked about the diminishing values among the young of the country and how solutions can be arrived at with the right attitude. He laments that older people are constantly talking of the "good old days" thus making youngsters feel that the bad that's happening is all their fault.
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Episode 38 - October 24, 2012 Guest: Dr Judea Mellora

Dea and I met when she was interviewed in the other radio station to discuss the mountains of garbage in the city in the late 90s. She was already practicing medicine in the poor sections of Navotas and Tondo, but she made time to teach communities on how to segregate their garbage. These days though she is a full-time medical practitioner specializing in natural medicine, she still finds time to go to those communities for free consultations and cater to the needs of the poor.
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Episode 37 - October 23, 2012 Guest: Inday Berroya

Inday and I had a free-wheeling discussion on the state of our environment specifically the planting of indigenous trees, trees being cut due to ignorance, and giving way to the building of no-sense commercial structures in its place. We also talked about the garbage dumped by ships in the sea that find its way to beaches, and how wildlife like birds and turtles are harmed by this practice.
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Episode 36 - October 22, 2012 Guest: Dr Rommel Tinio

Dr Tinio expounded on the importance of taking Vitamin C for those suffering from diabetes, hypertension, heart problems, dengue- and just about everything that ails the body because of its collagen building components. He said there is no over-dosage of this supplement because the body is able to expel it immediately. He said Vitamin C is most important for stressful people.
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Episode 35 - October 19, 2012 Guest: Innes Fernandez (Breastfeeding)

Innes was in her elements again as she attacked the perverse practice of multi-national milk companies in planting seeds of doubt and fear among new mothers about breast-feeding. She blames some of it as well on the ignorance and/or misinformation of health practitioners like midwives, OB-Gyns about the correct way of breastfeeding. She also defined the real sources of calcium that can be found in plant-based food- not only in milk.
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Episode 34 - October 18, 2012 Guest: Victor Villanueva

Vic is a passionate educator who grew wary of the educational system in the country by founding a primary school just so he would not let his knowledge go to waste. He instead poured this lifelong reservoir of information to his growing children who are now benefiting, together with their classmates, from his ideals. He is young, dynamic and full of hope for this new generation of citizens- given a solid foundation in education.
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Episode 33 - October 17, 2012 Guest: Carmen Dayrit-Padilla

Menchu is a reluctant concert pianist (though having recently performed in Russia), and is the present president of the International Organization of Folk Arts, a UNESCO accredited NGO. She is the former director of the Commission on Culture and the Arts, responsible for the funding and support of projects by Filipino artists. We discussed the waning cultural activities and music education of students in the primary and secondary levels as well as the lack of interest among the authorities to sustain sponsorship of the arts.
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Episode 32 - October 16, 2012 Guest: Dr Nina Galang

Dr Nina Galang was vice-president of Miriam College for Academic Affairs; former Executive Director of the Environmental Studies Institute of the college; and now consultant of the Institute. We discussed the various activities being undertaken by the Institute where they cater to the education and involvement of communities and local government units (LGUs)with regard to the problems of the environment, and their possible solutions. She tackled their recent SONA (State of Nature Assessment) (coinciding with the actual SONA of the president of the country), where participants like farmers, fisherfolk, and scientists, all concluded how climate change is affecting everyone, rich and poor alike.
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Episode 31 - October 15, 2012 Guest: Bert Guevara

Bert's Earth Day Network where is president, was featured prominently in the front page of the Philippines'Daily Inquirer on Sunday because of his group's effort to identify and revive the planting of native trees in its reforestation campaign. He said only 1.5% of the total trees being planted is native. We also talked about the importance of educating people on the problems of the environment to be able to talk to them intelligently, and related to this, their new logo, "Stop Ignorance."
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Episode 30 - October 12, 2012

I began by talking about the "Broken Glass Theory," - where people who see buildings with broken glass windows assume it could be a dangerous place, thus avoid it altogether. I mentioned how cleanliness in the homes is not only found among the rich, but also among the very poor. I urged listeners not to use commercial scents to deodorize their homes and cars, as these might jeopardize the health of vulnerable children.
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Episode 29 - October 11, 2012

I started the program describing the passing of two people I know. One died after a long battle with cancer. The other person was someone I met a few weeks ago who was so full of life talking about his family and telling me how much he enjoyed reading my weekly column on relationships. He died suddenly while in an office meeting. I said life is too short and that we should care more about family and helping those in need.
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Episode 28- October 10, 2012 Guest: Offie Panganiban

Offie was her usual enthusiastic self, as one listener commented, in describing her livelihood topics such as turning jackfruit peels, banana peels, pineapple peels- stuff meant for the garbage ordinarily- into jam or vinegar. She also warned parents against buying cheap and highly toxic toys from China for their children who would put anything and everything inside their mouths.
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Episode 27- October 9, 2012 Guest: Beth de Castro

Beth is a professor of psychology at the University of the Philippines besides being a farmer, together with her husband, Tony de Castro. We discussed the health benefits of organic foods, primarily vegetables one grows personally. She said she and her husband decided early on not to use pesticides, and lo and behold, nature provided the natural enemies of plant pests to thrive like lady bugs and birds. She said she witnessed one bird literally pulling a worm out of an eggplant.
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Episode 26 - October 8, 2012

Having watched the documentary on Agent Orange the previous night in the History Channel- that toxic powder dumped in Vietnam by the American Forces to destroy by poisoning all vegetation that could hide anybody and anything, I talked about the horrors of the collateral damage wrought upon the communities that is suffering the brunt of that terrible act. Children are disfigured or damaged neurologically, and it is feared that this is going to be a generational problem- with no end in sight.
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Episode 25- October 5, 2012 Guest: Norma Japitana

Norma is a journalist at heart and a public relations practitioner. She has managed actors and entertainers and basically instilled in them kindness to their fans. Here we talked of values and how children have to be nurtured early on the fundamental goodness at home by their parents for them to constantly practice it in life.
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Episode 24- October 4, 2012 Guest: Annie Pascual-Guerrero

Annie is the president of Zero Waste Philippines. Her group started a livelihood program for a poor community in Quezon City, basically, to walk their talk that zero waste is possible and viable. She funded this project with her personal money. Some of their products, culled from recycled garbage were, brooms from pet bottles that will never wear out, paper coffins, jewelry, vinegar, and many more. They became so successful the organization that owned the place stopped their activities and told them to pack up.
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Episode 23- October 3, 2012 Guest: Mila Magsaysay-Valenzuela

Mila's dad is the late President Ramon Magsaysay who died in a plane crash, three and a half years into office. She's that type of person one can bond easily because of her caring, humble, quiet, nature. I met her in my other show when she called to say her appreciation for an environment program. We discussed family values and how much of it is being eroded at present.
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Episode 22- October 2, 2012 Guest: Bert Guevara

As president of Earth Day Network, Bert has become a revolving guest because of his knowledge of the activities of other environmental NGOs, not only his, and could share many of the ideas and problems floating around these days. One recent horrid news was the intimidation by illegal loggers of forest rangers who are guarding newly planted trees literally with their lives because of the spate of killings among their ranks by this lawless murderers.
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Episode 21- October 1, 2012 Guest- Inday Berroya

Inday is a civic leader and a passionate environmentalist. During the late 90s, she and her co-eco-warriors fought hard for the passage of the Clean Air Act (the first country in the world to ban incinerators on a national level) and the Ecological Solid Waste Management Law or R.A. 9003. She lectures nationwide knowing that the information dissemination on pollution and recycling is never-ending.
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