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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
320 – 340

Being Green - 12 October 2018

Last week I said rather flippantly “One-and-a-half-degrees Good; Two degrees Bad.” Might have been an echo of Animal Farm? If this is new to you, don’t worry, I’ll explain. The big debate was in South Korea early this week, where the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change – the IPCC -…
12 Oct 2018 6 min

Being Green - 05 October 2018

The Climate-Change Saga Continues – another episode. Climate scientists push for 1.5 degrees! There’s another big pow-wow coming up in the Climate Change story on Monday. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change – IPCC – is meeting in South Korea to review progress on the wide extent of things to…
5 Oct 2018 5 min

Being Green - 21 September 2018

Triumph for Citizen Democracy It’s quite likely that you’re a member of the Botanical Society, or “BotSoc” as they say here in the Cape. A lot of BotSoc members also listen to Fine Music Radio. And vice versa. But seriously, the Botanical Society is a key institution in the history…
21 Sep 2018 6 min

Being Green - 14 September 2018

As Hurricane Florence begins to impact on the coasts of the Carolinas and the United States media accelerate into their customary, barely hysterical reporting on this very energetic weather, the timing of the Trump Administration’s latest energy-policy volte face seems, well, unfortunate. What is the change in the policy? The…
14 Sep 2018 5 min

Being Green - 31 August 2018

Biodegradable, compostable plastic carrier and food bags will begin trending in South Africa before the end of the year as more shoppers turn their backs on environmentlly toxic single use plastic bags that choke marine life to death and pollute the planet. This is the vew of Andrew Smith, co-founder…
31 Aug 2018 7 min

Being Green - 24 August 2018

John Richards talked to LINDA SCARBOROUGH editor of Eat Out Magazine, about the EAT OUT WOOLWORTHS SUSTAINBILITY AWARD for restaurants. Entries are now open for the country’s most prestigious accolade for sustainable restaurants. Launched in 2016 as a first for South Africa, the Eat Out Woolworths Sustainability Award acknowledges a…
24 Aug 2018 7 min

Being Green - 10 August 2018

Out of many remarkable and stand-out women in natural history and the environment movement I’m arbitrarily focusing on a few today, just to bring them to mind and acknowledge their amazing achievements, against all the usual odds, plus the dimension of gender discrimination. Jane Goodall, primatologist, anthropologist, activist and so…
10 Aug 2018 6 min

Being Green - 03 August 2018

KUSINI WATER – Murendeni Mafumo If we’re to have any hope of surviving let alone flourishing as a species on this environmentally challenged planet, one of the most important areas that we can do something about is right in the field of what we’re good at – invention, innovation, disruption…
3 Aug 2018 8 min

Being Green - 20 July 2018

Antarctic Research Planned to Get a Handle on Climate Change It’s the depth of mid-winter in the Antarctic now, so research activity is a little curtailed, and those who can carry on in the darkness and the cold are doing so with their usual focused enthusiasm – it’s the only…
20 Jul 2018 6 min

Being Green - 13 July 2018

Of What Use Are Mosquitoes? Troubled by an out-of-season mosquito last night I mused on the necessity or otherwise of these creatures in the world, and remembered the wry Ogden Nash couplet, “God in His wisdom made the fly, and then forgot to tell us why.” Do not fear, we’re…
13 Jul 2018 6 min

Being Green - 22 June 2018

5th International Climate Change Conference – here in Cape Town. So what has been happening? A lot of high-level talk and information input from academics, researchers, government and semi-government organisations and their staffers in the fields of agriculture and environmental management. I think you can pick up from this –…
22 Jun 2018 5 min

Being Green - 15 June 2018

So you’re in the desert, any desert, far away from infrastructure, how do you ensure a supply of drinking water? No, this is not another episode of Survivor. Well, you can be clever and engineer condensing the night-time dew off your tent, or look around for a dry river-course and…
15 Jun 2018 6 min

Being Green - 08 June 2018

City Sightseeing Company is Carbon Neutral & Sustainable! The Carbon Neutral Bus Company The City Sightseeing buses are red – and you can’t mistake them as they ferry overseas and local tourists around every day to our very sight-worthy sites, too numerous to mention, but Signal Hill and Kirstenbosch figure…
8 Jun 2018 5 min

Being Green - 01 June 2018

I was in SANBI’s Kirstenbosch Gardens last week-end, along with many local, national and international visitors, enjoying one of the great heritage sites and cultural resources of this planet. The backdrop of the wooded slopes of Table Mountain and the ridges of Castle Rock and the mountain plateau – the…
1 Jun 2018 5 min

Being Green - 25 May 2018

Anyone Remember the Ozone Hole? Climate change. Although you may think that the dreaded term is symptomatic of our recent, some would say, obsessive focus, on the topic and the almost daily news of fresh discoveries, warnings and political reactions to climate change, the concern about what we are doing…
25 May 2018 6 min
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