Being Green

Being Green - 27 June 2020

In this week’s edition of Being Green this week, Glynis Crook speaks to Brett Jordaan of the Pristine Earth Collective about a pilot project in which litter booms have been installed at three points across the Black River to trap solid waste litter including plastic, so that it can be…

26 Jun 2020 6 min

Being Green - 19 June 2020

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.

19 Jun 2020 6 min

Being Green - 12 June 2020

In Being Green this week, Glynis Crook speaks to Professor Peter Ryan, director of UCT’s FitzPatrick Institute of African Ornithology about a study looking at litter on the beaches in Cape Town. In collaboration with the City of Cape Town and government’s Working for Coast Programme, his research team took…

12 Jun 2020 6 min

Being Green - 05 June 2020

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.

5 Jun 2020 4 min

Being Green - 29 May 2020

In this week’s edition of Being Green, Glynis Crook speaks to Renee Leeuwner of the Two Oceans Aquarium to find out more about Alvi and Yoshi, two endangered sea turtles that have been released back into the ocean. The also discuss why turtles are on the International Union for Conservation…

29 May 2020 6 min

Being Green - 22 May 2020

In today’s edition of Being Green, Glynis Crook speaks to Romy Klusener who is Rehabilitation Manager at the Southern African Foundation for the Conservation of Coastal Birds. They discuss how SANCCOB is coping with the African Penguin egg-season which is a busy time of the year for the organisation, the…

22 May 2020 7 min

Being Green - 15 May 2020

Brazil earlier this week deployed the military to the Amazon in a bid to halt illegal logging and mining activities in the rainforest. The development came just days after satellite data from its space research institute showed there has been a 55 per cent surge in deforestation in the first…

15 May 2020 8 min

Being Green - 08 May 2020

Four of the world’s leading biodiversity experts have warned that we need to stop destroying nature or face deadlier and more frequent pandemics that inflict even worse economic damage. They say human activities such as deforestation, intensive farming, and exploitation of wild species have created a “perfect storm” for diseases…

8 May 2020 6 min

Being Green - 01 May 2020

Following the sighting of a pod of Orcas or Killer Whales in False Bay last weekend, Glynis Crook speaks to scientist Dr Simon Elwen of the NPO Sea Search, to find out more about the mammal, why they are coming more frequently to waters around the Cape, and the impact…

4 May 2020 7 min

Being Green - 24 April 2020

Glynis Crook’s guest in this week’s edition of Being Green is Dr Eleanor Hutchings who is the People and Conservation Coordinator: Biodiversity Management Branch at the City of Cape Town. They discuss the annual City Nature Challenge which takes place from Friday 24 to Monday 27 April. More than 250…

29 Apr 2020 6 min

Being Green - 17 April 2020

Last year, Being Green spoke to journalist Steve Kretzmann about the quality of the coastal water around Cape Town. He said it was difficult to know how clean it was as the City of Cape Town had not made public the results of its water sample tests for some time…

17 Apr 2020 6 min

Being Green - 10 April 2020

Easter is said to be the peak holiday for chocolate sales around the world, beating even Valentine’s Day and Christmas. In Being Green this week, Glynis Crook asks just how environmentally friendly your favourite slab is. Do you know where the cocoa is sourced, are the farmers paid a fair…

10 Apr 2020 9 min

Being Green - 03 April 2020

Glynis Crook speaks to climate scientist Peter Johnston of the University of Cape Town’s Climate System Analysis Group. They discuss the positive impact that reduced human activity due to the coronavirus pandemic is having on the environment, whether it will last, and if there are any lessons to be learned…

3 Apr 2020 7 min

Being Green - 27 March 2020

In this week’s edition of Being Green, Glynis Crook talks to Kirstenbosch Gardens’ senior horticulturist, Cherise Viljoen, about the Spekboom which is widely fêted for its carbon absorption properties. They discuss concerns that people, in their enthusiasm, are planting them where they don’t really belong, and whether other indigenous succulents…

27 Mar 2020 5 min

Being Green - 13 March 2020

A new assessment by a group 89 scientists from 50 international organisations has found that the polar ice caps are melting 6 times faster than in the 1990s. A comprehensive review of satellite data from both poles showed that the Antarctica and Greenland lost 6.4 trillion tonnes of ice between…

13 Mar 2020 6 min

Being Green - 06 March 2020

Minister Pravin Gordhan has been opening up on some of his standpoints on the energy crisis, or the Eskom crisis, to say the same thing. There is no doubt that the downward spiral of diminishing demand and sporadic supply threatens the eventual survival of the big utility, and the road-map…

6 Mar 2020 7 min

Being Green - 28 February 2020

In this week’s edition of Being Green, Glynis Crook speaks to arborist and Chairman of the Friends of the Arderne Gardens, Francois Krige, about this incredible but relatively little known park that is situated just a few minutes’ walk away from the busy central Claremont shopping district. Established 175 years…

28 Feb 2020 6 min

Being Green - 21 February 2020

21 Feb 2020 4 min

Being Green - 14 February 2020

We’ve followed with great sadness the story of the series of bushfires that have burned across Australia since September last year. They’ve resulted nationally in the death of at least 33 people, destroyed thousands of homes, and have burned more than 11 million hectares of bush, forest and parks. And…

14 Feb 2020 5 min

Being Green - 07 February 2020

If you’re a follower of the Green thread in our current affairs – or put another way, if you care about the environment – of course you will be aware of the grand theme of political-economic-social discourse that dominates the field. BEING GREEN is Fine Music Radio’s acknowledgement of the…

7 Feb 2020 4 min