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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
340 – 360

Being Green - 18 May 2018

GETTING WATER OUT OF THIN AIR John Richards talked to Kai Brummer of Watergen about the atmospheric water-extraction units they are offering. Details at website below. Greetings – your high-school physics probably told you water can be taken up – dissolved – in the air. So you won’t be surprised…
18 May 2018 4 min

Being Green - 11 May 2018

ROBBEN ISLAND IMPROVES THE CARBON FOOTPRINT John Richards talked to DOM WILLS, CEO of Sola Future Energy, the contractor who designed and installed the solar arrays and storage batteries, and the micro-grid operating system, to reduce dramatically the use of diesel electricity generation. Robben Island is a UNESCO World Heritage…
11 May 2018 8 min

Being Green - 05 Mayl 2018

John Richards spoke to EVAN SCHIFF, Event Director of AFRICAN UTILITY WEEK about specific consumer environmental concerns of the energy sector; the public exhibition (at CTICC) of all aspects of water and electricity utilities and producers, especially renewable technologies, and the public workshops available.
4 May 2018 8 min

Being Green - 20 April 2018

It’s EARTH DAY on Sunday. I’m never too sure about these ‘day’ things, but it does provide a hook to hang many feelings, ideas, wishes and enthusiasms on, and it is generally seen as a Good Thing. You may recall – probably not – but you may recall we had…
20 Apr 2018 5 min

Being Green - 13 April 2018

Do You Suffer Ecological Grief? Are you an optimist? It’s like that statistical thing – everyone would rate themselves an above-average driver. You don’t have to be a statistician to reflect that just can’t be true… But still, I think I’m an above-average driver. I think also we are optimists…
13 Apr 2018 5 min

Being Green - 6 April 2018

The ironies of living! Somehow we negotiate them, or try not to think of them. Now here on the green front this is a first for me. I’ve often reported on activists demonstrating on behalf of Independent Power Producers, IPP’s. Stand up for the independents against the looming giant of…
6 Apr 2018 6 min

Being Green - 30 March 2018

How many 5-litre plastic bottles of water did you see on your travels recently? Last week you may have heard here on B/G how the stream of plastic bottles arriving in the Cape is being intercepted and handled, thanks to some smart interactions by plastics manufacturers, and the bottled water…
30 Mar 2018 4 min

Being Green - 23 March 2018

The huge increase in the numbers of plastic water containers of all shapes and sizes migrating to the Western Cape has created a bit of a headache for packaging recyclers in the province, and plans are underway to bale used bottles and send them to Gauteng where there’s sufficient capacity…
23 Mar 2018 7 min

Being Green - 16 March 2018

EARTH OBSERVATION Since the beginning of the Space Age we have been straining to look out and explore the Universe, even taking a few baby steps to escape the confines of Earth, hop onto the Moon, and send robots further and further into the distant reaches of the Solar System…
16 Mar 2018 7 min

Being Green - 23 February 2018

How are you doing on your water saving? I have sallied out a number of times to my water meter and done the arithmetic, and I can report we’re doing OK, just on the right side of 50litres per person per day. I hope you do not detect a note…
23 Feb 2018 5 min

Being Green - 02 February 2018

It’s A Puzzling World… Greetings. I’d like to illustrate what a puzzling world we inhabit. And have some fun too of course. President Trump got a few grudging approvals in his State of the Union speech, so it’s not all negative for him. He certainly didn’t get approval from the…
2 Feb 2018 7 min

Being Green - 19 January 2018

ARE THE SPECIES OF THE WORLD LIVING THROUGH THE “6th EXTINCTION”? You’ve probably heard this before: we’re in the middle of an era when the rate of extinction of natural species is accelerating with unprecedented speed – species are going extinct as we speak – POP! – there goes one…
19 Jan 2018 7 min

Being Green - 12 January 2018

PLASTICS, MINING, AND ZUMA IN ORBIT The first week or two of a new year seems to bring out some bizarre stories, at least you could use that term. Perhaps it is something to do with the disruptions of the so-called Festive Season. Journalists and their media are not exempt…
12 Jan 2018 6 min

Being Green - 05 January 2018

The Drought Charge drought.charge@capetown.gov.za I’m sorry to start the B G year off with Water, but as this will be a dominant topic in the next little while, and since I am freshly returned from water-rich Gauteng, well, I can’t think of a reason not to. Water-rich Gauteng – not…
5 Jan 2018 6 min
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