Being Green

Being Green - 31 Dec 2021

PROUDLY SPONSORED BY GERLINDE MOSER OF RE/MAX. Being Green – Your window on the environment broadcast every Friday morning at 9.30. Glynis Crook will focus on key issues affecting our lifestyles, science and research outcomes, the quest for sustainable living and a healthier planet.

31 Dec 2021 5 min

Being Green - 24 Dec 2021

In this week’s edition of Being Green, Glynis Crook offers five tips to make your Christmas celebrations more environmentally friendly.

24 Dec 2021 7 min

Being Green - 17 Dec 2021

PROUDLY SPONSORED BY GERLINDE MOSER OF RE/MAX. Being Green – Your window on the environment broadcast every Friday morning at 9.30. Glynis Crook will focus on key issues affecting our lifestyles, science and research outcomes, the quest for sustainable living and a healthier planet.

17 Dec 2021 4 min

Being Green - 10 Dec 2021

In this week’s edition of Being Green, Glynis Crook speaks to Dr Simon Elwen, director of Sea Search and a research associate at Stellenbosch University’s Department of Botany and Zoology, about the humpback whales that have been spotted all week off the coast of Sea Point, Green Point, and Mouille…

10 Dec 2021 6 min

Being Green - 03 Dec 2021

(www.nature.org) A good green morning to you. At least that’s what we hope will be the greeting from your bank or FSP one of these days soon. There are concrete developments being reported now in the sphere of green investment, and some of these hoped-for announcements go beyond public-relations media…

3 Dec 2021 5 min

Being Green - 26 Nov 2021

In Being Green this week, Glynis Crook speaks to Dr Judy Mann, a conservation strategist at the South African Association for Marine Biological Research’s Oceanographic Research Institute, about oil giant Shell's plan to carry out a seismic survey off the Wild Coast in a search for oil and gas deposits…

26 Nov 2021 7 min

Being Green - 19 Nov 2021

www.oceansnotoil.com Thanks for joining us this morning, and welcome to the post COP26 world, as I’m sure you are relieved to hear. It’s all over bar the shouting as I remarked last time, and thanks to Glynis for wrapping up the take-away impressions for us in her interview last week…

19 Nov 2021 4 min

Being Green - 12 Nov 2021

On the final day of the United Nations Climate Conference, Cop 26, aimed at bringing climate change under control, Glynis Crook speaks to Dr Christopher Trisos, director of the Climate Risk Lab at UCT’s African Climate & Development Initiative, to find out whether he thinks progress has been made.

12 Nov 2021 7 min

Being Green - 05 Nov 2021

Is it all over bar the shouting? At COP26 I mean. The world leaders – those who attended – have departed the stage. Major announcements have been made and photo opportunities for the politically important provided, so what happens now? A lot of negotiating and fine-print examination no doubt, as…

5 Nov 2021 5 min

Being Green - 29 Oct 2021

In Being Green this week, Glynis Crook speaks to Dr Nicolas Simpson, a postdoctoral research fellow at UCT’s African Climate & Development Initiative, to find out what African countries will be hoping for from the United Nations Climate Conference, Cop26, which gets underway in Glasgow this weekend. The talks are…

29 Oct 2021 7 min

Being Green - 22 Oct 2021

GREEN HYDROGEN! Now there is a new term to get your head around in green circles, and it’s assuming more and more importance. You’ll hear more about it I promise you – so here goes. It’s GREEN HYDROGEN. Hydrogen is the colourless light gas we all know and love from…

22 Oct 2021 5 min

Being Green - 15 Oct 2021

As of 2022, the Western Cape Organics Landfill Ban comes into effect. This means that municipalities will be required to divert 50% of the estimated 3 million tonnes of organic waste generated in the province every year from landfills. And that figure increases to a 100% diversion by 2027. The…

15 Oct 2021 7 min

Being Green - 08 Oct 2021

Nobel Prize in Physics Goes to Climate Change Researchers This week saw the announcement of the Nobel Prize in Physics, one of the Big Nobels. Coincidentally, or perhaps not so coincidentally, the news in London was full of flooding and disruptions after torrential rainstorms over the city.

8 Oct 2021 4 min

Being Green - 01 Oct 2021

The rapid expansion of the wine industry in the early 2000s led to concerns that the vineyards were encroaching on the Western Cape’s two unique global biodiversity hotspots – the Cape Floral Kingdom and the Succulent Karoo. So, the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) decided to partner with farm…

1 Oct 2021 7 min

Being Green - 24 Sept 2021

A significant event took place a few days ago in Southern England. Not exactly earth-shattering, but we’ll probably look back on it in years to come as the start of a new age. An age of electric transport heralding another de-carbonisation initiative. What am I talking about? The first flight…

24 Sep 2021 4 min

Being Green - 17 Sept 2021

It’s National Recycling Day today, and in this week’s edition of Being Green, Glynis Crook speaks to Melanie Ludwig of Organics Recycling Association of South Africa about new rules coming into effect in the Western Cape next year with regards to organic waste in landfills, and how we can use…

17 Sep 2021 7 min

Being Green - 10 Sept 2021

Tuna Populations Bounce Back Good news for a change and it’s sorely needed amidst the political turmoil and natural disaster events abounding on the media at present, to say nothing of COVID-19, so we won’t say anything about it. Good news? Well, there is some, say marine conservation scientists. The…

10 Sep 2021 4 min

Being Green - 03 Sept 2021

In this week’s edition of Being Green, Glynis Crook speaks to the World Wide Fund for Nature-South Africa’s environment behaviour change lead, Pavitray “Pavs” Pillay, about the recent breach of a decommissioned landfill at Witsand which resulted in large quantities of litter spilling onto the beach and out to sea…

3 Sep 2021 6 min

Being Green - 27 Aug 2021

The fates seem to conspire sometimes, (I know that’s ridiculous coming from an old skeptic like me) BUT anyway…there was excitement a few days ago about the phenomena in the sky above Gauteng, when a slow-moving meteor seemed to be breaking up and heading in the direction of Botswana, with…

27 Aug 2021 4 min

Being Green - 20 Aug 2021

Last week on Being Green, John Richards spoke about the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s sixth climate assessment report which had been published a few days earlier. It was the first to be released by the United Nations body since 2014 and comes ahead of the COP26 summit. The meeting…

20 Aug 2021 7 min