Mondays at 12:50 pm during The Mix Pete Forster takes a regular look at the environment, the changing global climate and all things green. Green podcast feed Green is taking a short hiatus, but it will be back soon! Mondays at 12:50 pm during The Mix Pete Forster takes a regular look at the environment, the changing global climate and all things green. Green podcast feed Green is taking a short hiatus, but it will be back soon! WRS WRS web@wrs.ch en Fri, 30 Jul 2010 10:30:07 UT Sat, 27 Jun 2009 23:41:33 GMT Big Medium 2.0.8 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss http://worldradio.ch/wrs/programmes/all_things_green/index.shtml (C) WRS 2009 environment no Dutch retailer Macintosh has asked a Swiss-based NGO to find out everything about their shoes that manufacturers prefer to hide. From poisons in the glue to the amount of forests cleared to make way for the cattle to grow the leather, they want to know, and they want you to know… but why?  Mon, 12 Apr 2010 11:50:00 GMT http://worldradio.ch/wrs/programmes/all_things_green/green-how-green-are-your-shoes.shtml?18622 79fb7a047369e85e0d59f47d8906b200-8622 Programmes/Green Daily Shows/The Mix A Swiss-based company wants to make money for investors by buying land and plantations around the world and managing the timber in a socially and environmentally responsible way. Doable? WRS’s Pete Forster investigates: Thu, 18 Mar 2010 11:45:00 GMT http://worldradio.ch/wrs/programmes/all_things_green/green-the-green-economy.shtml?18485 79fb7a047369e85e0d59f47d8906b200-8485 Programmes/Green Daily Shows/The Mix The Convention in Trade in Endangered Species (CITES) is taking place in Doha this week. WRS’s Pete Forster spoke to Sue Menka of the International Union for the Conservation of Nature IUCN about what it might mean for lovers of sushi and shark fin soup: Sat, 06 Mar 2010 11:50:00 GMT http://worldradio.ch/wrs/programmes/all_things_green/green-lots-at-stake-at-cites.shtml?18486 79fb7a047369e85e0d59f47d8906b200-8486 Programmes/Green Daily Shows/The Mix The EU is looking to amend its standards for energy labeling of white goods. Switzerland customarily follows suit, but should it this time? WRS’s Pete Forster talks to Prof. Dr. Rolf Wüstenhagen of St Gallen University, who has been looking into the effectiveness of the new scheme: Mon, 22 Feb 2010 11:50:00 GMT http://worldradio.ch/wrs/programmes/all_things_green/green-making-sense-of-energy-label-standards.shtml?18487 79fb7a047369e85e0d59f47d8906b200-8487 Programmes/Green Daily Shows/The Mix It seems that the latest report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change was way off  in its forecast about the melting of Himalayan glaciers. WRS’s Pete Forster asks Dr Martin Beniston, a leading climatologist, whether the mistake undermines the other conclusions in the document.  Mon, 15 Feb 2010 13:56:32 GMT http://worldradio.ch/wrs/programmes/all_things_green/green-losing-faith-in-faith-in-the-ipcc.shtml?17943 79fb7a047369e85e0d59f47d8906b200-7943 Programmes/Green Daily Shows/The Mix Dr. Jörg Rieckenmann from Urban Water Management (Eawag) explains how a problem for mobile phone companies—signal interference from rain—just might help city planners more accurately measure rainfall in order to help reduce the amount of untreated sewerage making its way into our streams and lakes: Mon, 08 Feb 2010 15:57:02 GMT http://worldradio.ch/wrs/programmes/all_things_green/green-one-industrys-problem-is-anothers-solution.shtml?17841 79fb7a047369e85e0d59f47d8906b200-7841 Programmes/Green Daily Shows/The Mix The International Telecommunications Union has convinced several of the top mobile phone producers to agree to a universal charger—a move they say could save more 13.6 million tonnes of greenhouse gas emissions a year. WRS’s Pete Forster has the story: Mon, 01 Feb 2010 11:50:00 GMT http://worldradio.ch/wrs/programmes/all_things_green/green-one-phone-charger-for-all.shtml?17749 79fb7a047369e85e0d59f47d8906b200-7749 Programmes/Green Daily Shows/The Mix Lucas Chambers talks to Swiss scientists who are looking for new ways to scavenge energy from the myriad little things we do in our daily lives.   Mon, 11 Jan 2010 17:14:37 GMT http://worldradio.ch/wrs/programmes/all_things_green/green-every-day-energy-scavenging.shtml?17436 79fb7a047369e85e0d59f47d8906b200-7436 Programmes/Green Daily Shows/The Mix Pete Forster looks at a WWF campaign that urges people to cut back on meat consumption—responsible for a surprisingly large amount of global carbon emissions: Mon, 04 Jan 2010 15:09:24 GMT http://worldradio.ch/wrs/programmes/all_things_green/green-cut-back-on-meat-save-the-world.shtml?17346 79fb7a047369e85e0d59f47d8906b200-7346 Programmes/Green Nebulous atmospheric conditions in Copenhagen this morning were viewed by many conference delegates and journalists as an apt metaphor for the talks at hand. WRS’s Catherine Allen reports from the climate summit. Mon, 07 Dec 2009 13:26:02 GMT http://worldradio.ch/wrs/programmes/all_things_green/green-copenhagen-talks-begin-under-a-cloud.shtml?17039 79fb7a047369e85e0d59f47d8906b200-7039 Programmes/Green Pete Forster talks to Professor Thomas Stocker, a leading climatologist based at Bern University who co-authored the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s (IPCC) report, about some of the threats to our way of life posed by climate change. Mon, 30 Nov 2009 12:00:00 GMT http://worldradio.ch/wrs/programmes/all_things_green/green-leading-climatologists-look-to-copenhagen.shtml?16939 79fb7a047369e85e0d59f47d8906b200-6939 Programmes/Green Pete Forster continues his discussion with key carbon trading architect Prof. Graziella Chichilnisky about the Obama administration’s strategy for tackling green issues. Mon, 23 Nov 2009 14:29:26 GMT http://worldradio.ch/wrs/programmes/all_things_green/green-does-obama-have-a-climate-strategy.shtml?16845 79fb7a047369e85e0d59f47d8906b200-6845 Programmes/Green As climatologists around the world prepare to meet in Copenhagen, Pete Forster catches up with Professor Chichilnisky, a key architect of the carbon trading protocol that underlies the Kyoto agreement. Mon, 16 Nov 2009 12:00:00 GMT http://worldradio.ch/wrs/programmes/all_things_green/green-evaluating-carbon-trading.shtml?16751 79fb7a047369e85e0d59f47d8906b200-6751 Programmes/Green So-called ’carbon labelling’ of food is gaining momentum, with chains in Sweden already printing details of how much carbon was emitted in the production of burgers and fast food. Pete Forster discusses the pros and cons. Mon, 09 Nov 2009 12:00:00 GMT http://worldradio.ch/wrs/programmes/all_things_green/green-how-green-is-your-burger.shtml?16664 79fb7a047369e85e0d59f47d8906b200-6664 Programmes/Green Pete Forster begins a mini-series reevaluating the theory of global warning by considering the evidence from ice cores, cylindrical samples of ice taken from ice sheets and used to deduce historical trends. Mon, 02 Nov 2009 13:29:01 GMT http://worldradio.ch/wrs/programmes/all_things_green/green-ice-cores.shtml?16559 79fb7a047369e85e0d59f47d8906b200-6559 Programmes/Green