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Being Green

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.
Weekly English South Africa Health & Fitness
452 Episodes
280 – 300

Being Green - 30 August 2019

In Being Green this week, Glynis Crook tastes fynbos in the form of tea, cordials and salts, and learns how they can be used to flavour food. Her guest is Giselle Courtney who runs workshops in the Company Gardens to teach people about both the culinary and medicinal uses of…
30 Aug 2019 6 min

Being Green - 23 August 2019

A concatenation of circumstances led to the world-shattering find of the Coelacanth on that fateful day in late December 1938, when Marjorie Latimer recognized a distinctive blue fin sticking out of a bunch of trawled fish on the quay in East London. She had no idea what it was, but…
23 Aug 2019 7 min

Being Green - 16 August 2019

In 1979, when South Africa decided to ban commercial whaling, the population of humpback whales in the western Indian Ocean was down to roughly 300 to 600 individuals. A new survey led by marine biologist Chris Wilkinson of the University of Pretoria’s Mammal Research Institute now suggests they have made…
19 Aug 2019 6 min

Being Green - 09 August 2019

I’m sure it hasn’t escaped your attention that recent temperatures in the North have been the hottest on record. In fact the last four years have been the hottest on record according to the UN climate watch. The change is accelerating up to thirty times as fast as it did…
10 Aug 2019 6 min

Being Green - 02 August 2019

In Being Green this week, Glynis Crook speaks to Professor Wikus Van Niekerk, Dean of Engineering at Stellenbosch University, who is co-author of a new study which suggests that installing giant turbines in the ocean off the east coast of South Africa could provide a “green” solution to generating the…
2 Aug 2019 6 min

Being Green - 26 July 2019

ZERO-ING ON THE WATER POSITION At least we’re having a (quote) normal (unquote) winter, the rain gauges are overflowing and there are substantial inflows into the dams. Also there’s been flooding and disruption, but that’s ‘normal’ too. Some places inland, like Leeuwenboschfontein near Touws River and Redelinghuys on the West…
26 Jul 2019 5 min

Being Green - 19 July 2019

In this week’s edition of Being Green, Glynis Crook was joined in the studio by Cape Town’s mayoral committee member for community services and health, Zahid Badroodien, for an update on two dangers facing trees in the city: the illegal stripping of bark off indigenous trees and an infestation by…
19 Jul 2019 5 min

Being Green - 12 July 2019

Where are we with the “Global Warming” debate? Or: Emergency? - What Emergency? Some reporters and commentators go on about climate change crisis, it’s generally referred to as global warming, a problem. Now some are saying, emergency. In fact the Guardian has recently decided to use the tag, climate emergency…
12 Jul 2019 6 min

Being Green - 05 July 2019

As we become more aware of the damage we’re doing to the planet and consequently ourselves, many of us are trying to take steps to help protect the environment. We try to use less plastic, to recycle, and be careful with our water use, to name but a few. But…
5 Jul 2019 6 min

Being Green - 28 June 2019

Entries for this year’s Awards are officially open Sonia Mountford is a Woolworths Eat Out Sustainability Awards judge. She is a food journalist, a food-chain researcher and writer for EAT-egrity. First introduced in 2016 in order to increase awareness about economically and environmentally sustainable practices in the South African food…
28 Jun 2019 7 min

Being Green - 21 June 2019

In this week’s edition of Being Green, Glynis Crook learns how to make Japanese Bokashi compost at the Oranjezicht City Farm on a rather windy day.
21 Jun 2019 5 min

Being Green - 14 June 2019

John Richards and David Parry-Davies, Director of The Eco-Logic Awards World Environment Day saw the culmination of the Eco-Logic Awards with a gala presentation. The award finalists (and the sponsors) were the stars of the show, and the newly appointed National Minister of Environmental Affairs, Forestry and Fisheries showed government…
14 Jun 2019 7 min

Being Green - 07 June 2019

In this week’s edition of Being Green, Glynis Crook visits the Oranjezicht City Farm. She speaks to its manager, Josephine Fitzmaurice about why it was set up, how Capetonians can go harvest their own fresh organic vegetables there, what’s currently growing, and the farm’s educational programme. For more information, please…
7 Jun 2019 5 min

Being Green - 24 May 2019

In Being Green this week, Glynis Crook speaks to Dr Jacqueline Bishop from the University of Cape Town's Institute for Communities and Wildlife in Africa about a new study which has found that common rat poisons used by Capetonians are spilling over into the city’s natural environment creating a serious…
24 May 2019 5 min

Being Green - 17 May 2019

In this week’s edition of Being Green, Glynis Crook speaks to Dr Heather Walton who is a senior lecturer in environmental health at King’s College London. She’s the lead author of a new study which shows that some 1,000 Londoners are hospitalised every year with asthma and serious lung conditions…
17 May 2019 5 min

Being Green - 26 April 2019

In this week’s edition of Being Green, Glynis Crook speaks to March Turnbull of the Quagga Project about what happened to the animals that were moved from the Groote Schuur Estate in 2017.
26 Apr 2019 5 min

Being Green - 12 April 2019

Another Chapter in the Energy Debate The energy struggles rage on, as you well may expect, despite a lull in load-shedding implementation. Whether ESKOM is really upping their game, or is just grimly trying to plaster over the cracks and hold on because it will not do the ruling party…
12 Apr 2019 6 min

Being Green - 05 April 2019

FMR this week reported how a record number of dead dolphins, many of them severely mutilated, have washed up on France’s Atlantic coastline over the past few months. More than 1 thousand have been found with injuries which experts say are typically the result of being caught in industrial fishing…
5 Apr 2019 4 min
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