Eddy's Good News: Discovering the world's oldest barbeque and offering something new on Black Friday

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25 Nov 2022, 10:10

Every day during his show on Virgin Radio, Eddy Temple-Morris brings you Good News stories from around the world, to help inject a bit of positivity into your day!Be sure to listen each day between 10am and 1pm (Monday - Friday) to hear Eddy's Good News stories (amongst the finest music of course), but if you miss any of them you can catch up on the transcripts of Eddy's most recent stories below:

Friday 25th November 2022

Mind blowing news from Israel where the world’s oldest barbeque was discovered, and it’s a full 600,000 years older than experts thought we started cooking food!

Say shalom to palaeontologists who’ve been studying the site where prehistoric hunter gatherers got together to enjoy BBQ’d carp! 

It’s a huge deal because it’s 780,000 years old and experts previously thought cooking food began 180,000 years ago. Cooking food was a game changer for the human race far beyond flavour, it meant we could take much less energy to digest nutrients and therefore do more, not have to be so obsessed with hunting and gathering, concentrate on other things, language, art, and the advancement of the species. Uniting food with flame grew our brains and made us more intelligent.

Via: goodnewsnetwork.org

On Black Friday good news from here in the UK as that wonderful organic and circular tee shirt company I told you about months ago announce they’re taking back Black Friday.

Say hello to Teemill on the Isle Of Wight, they make lovely soft tee shirts out of old tee shirts, and on a day that’s world famous for people and companies choking the planet with greed and unsustainability, Teemill are doing the opposite, Take Back Friday offers you the chance to send in your old and unloved tee shirts, they’ll make new and much loved tee shirts with them, using their ReMill technology.

You get a fiver towards a brand new fully sustainable tee shirt, made from old tee shirts. They’re saying it’s now the world’s biggest fully circular platform, where the customer is also the supplier, and I have to stress this isn’t something Teemill do on one day of the year, they do it every day, each tee shirt you buy has a barcode inside and you just scan that to send the shirt back and get money off the next one.