Being Green

Being Green - 13 Aug 2021

The climate-change community is abuzz with the latest report just put out by the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, to give it its full jaw-breaking title, but we’ll switch to IPCC, much easier. This is the final and authoritative report on the state of play before the COP…

13 Aug 2021 5 min

Being Green - 06 Aug 2021

In this week’s edition of Being Green, Glynis Crook speaks to Adam Harrower, a botanist at Kirstenbosch National Botanical Garden about an alarming story in the New York Times detailing the extensive trafficking of succulents, many of them endangered, that are unique to the Western and Northern Cape. South Africa…

6 Aug 2021 6 min

Being Green - 30 July 2021

The Perfect Storm? It’s been a really tough week or week-plus whether you’re in the Northern or Southern Hemisphere on this rocky planet, and I’m not talking about the geology. The north-Americans and the Europeans have been rocked by off-the scale summer weather events. Heat and floods. Records don’t even…

30 Jul 2021 4 min

Being Green - 23 July 2021

As several countries in Western Europe count the cost of the recent devastating floods, and hopes of finding survivors fade, scientists are saying this type of flooding could hit the region far more often in the future. In this week’s edition of Being Green, Glynis Crook speaks to climate scientist,…

23 Jul 2021 7 min

Being Green - 16 July 2021

Hybrid Concrete Solutions www.arcinnovations.co.za I’m sure at this time you are contemplating going outside and grappling with whatever plans you have for getting through today and making it to the weekend; or you may be in the traffic as the sun breaks through, or tries to, on this winter morning…

16 Jul 2021 5 min

Being Green - 09 July 2021

In this week’s edition of Being Green, Glynis Crook speaks to Renee Leeuwner, the Two Oceans Aquarium’s spokesperson, about its “Ocean Superhero” campaign which showcases the spectacular superpowers of marine animals. To find out more visit: www.aquarium.co.za.

9 Jul 2021 6 min

Being Green - 02 July 2021

Two Fundamental Necessities for Viable Community Living. www.greencape.co.za Hi from me JR. To preserve a reasonable frame of mind and by-pass the elephant in the room, I’m going to focus on a few insights into two of the fundamental necessities for reasonable living. First up is water. Promised in the…

2 Jul 2021 5 min

Being Green - 25 June 2021

In this week’s edition of Being Green, Glynis Crook speaks to Jan Arkert, a geologist and researcher for The Green Connection, about a Canadian company which has been granted a licence to explore for oil and gas in one of Africa’s most environmentally-sensitive regions. The areas in Botswana and Namibia…

25 Jun 2021 10 min

Being Green - 18 June 2021

How Did Climate Change Action & Carbon-Capture Fare at the G7 Summit? The pizazz and self-important bustling of the G-7 international leaders, their handlers, media persons and all the enablers of that ilk are departed from picturesque Carbis Bay in tourist-friendly, picturesque Cornwall. (My great-aunt Lily had a small shop…

18 Jun 2021 5 min

Being Green - 11 June 2021

In this week’s edition of Being Green, Glynis Crook speaks to Dr Tess Gridley about an epic journey made by a grey whale that travelled more than 25,000 kilometres from the waters of the northern Pacific Ocean, where this species typically feed and breed, to Walvis Bay in Namibia. Gridley,…

11 Jun 2021 6 min

Being Green - 04 June 2021

“Out of the Mud – proof that the ‘Anthropocene’ goes back further than scientists thought.” Hi – thanks for joining us on BG. Sorry about my croakiness but it’s a proud badge. I had my vaccine shot a few days ago and there have been a few mild side effects…

4 Jun 2021 5 min

Being Green - 28 May 2021

In this week’s edition of Being Green, Glynis Crook speaks to Brett Jordaan, the CEO of the Centre for Regenerative Design and Collaboration, both Global and South Africa, about its pilot plant in Cape Town that has been making a concrete modifier from plastic waste. The product replaces the sand…

28 May 2021 6 min

Being Green - 21 May 2021

John Richards talked to Prof John S Compton, geo-chemist and emeritus professor of geology, UCT, about the geology and natural history of the West Coast, the basis for his new book West Coast - a Natural History. The publisher is Earthspun Books. Website: johnscompton.com

21 May 2021 7 min

Being Green - 14 May 2021

United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization’s regional director for Southern Africa, Professor Hubert Gijzen, visited both the University of Cape Town and the Cape Floral Region Protected Area on Tuesday to assess the damage following the devastating mountain fire in April. As UNESCO has accorded the Cape Floral Kingdom…

14 May 2021 8 min

Being Green - 07 May 2021

John Richards talked to Prof John S Compton, geo-chemist and emeritus professor of geology, UCT, about the geology and natural history of the West Coast, the basis for his new book West Coast - a Natural History. The publisher is Earthspun Books. Website: johnscompton.com

7 May 2021 6 min

Being Green - 30 Apr 2021

This week in Being Green, Glynis Crook speaks to Anton Hanekom, Executive Director of Plastics SA, the umbrella body for the industry in South Africa. Just over two weeks ago, government gazetted new regulations regarding plastic bags. From 2027, all plastic carrier bags and flat bags used in the country…

30 Apr 2021 7 min

Being Green - 23 Apr 2021

Suddenly for very cogent reasons there’s been a lot of talk about the “urban edge” this week, and the twitterati have had a field day with instant judgments of the ‘us and them’ variety. They need to leave instead of cluttering up the suburbs with homeless infrastructure like makeshift tents…

23 Apr 2021 4 min

Being Green - 16 Apr 2021

This week in Being Green, Glynis Crook speaks to Alison Davison, Head for Waste Minimisation for the City of Cape Town, about a pilot project to divert organic waste from landfills. In South Africa, a third of the food produced is never consumed and 90% of it ends up in…

16 Apr 2021 6 min

Being Green - 09 Apr 2021

You quite often see big ocean-mining vessels tied up alongside in the harbour, with – to me at any rate – intriguing engineering gear towering up out of their innards, and specialized pumps and mining what-not on display. And somehow there’s also a tinge of apprehension about what exactly happens…

9 Apr 2021 5 min

Being Green - 02 Apr 2021

This week in Being Green, Glynis Crook speaks to Australia-based South African author, Jax Moorcroft, about her book, The Flexitarian Foodie, published by Penguin. A flexitarian diet is one in which you eat mostly plant-based foods, and only occasionally meat and other animal products, and is widely considered to be…

2 Apr 2021 6 min