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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
360 – 380

Being Green - 29 December 2017

BEING GREEN 2018 Continua. It’s that strange inter-mezzo kind of period for many of us. Between one number and the next, the odometer clicking over into 2018 year-number, so here goes on the year in retrospect. As you would expect when it comes to the state of our planet and…
2 Jan 2018 4 min

Being Green - 22 December 2017

BEING GREEN 2018 Continua. It’s that strange inter-mezzo kind of period for many of us. Between one number and the next, the odometer clicking over into 2018 year-number, so here goes on the year in retrospect. As you would expect when it comes to the state of our planet and…
22 Dec 2017 4 min

Being Green - 15 December 2017

Will the Winds of Change Blow Any Good? With the hugely hyped one-and-only Conference on the doorstep, it’s tempting to write some cleverclog rhetorical query like “Will the Winds of Change be blowing next week?” Well let me answer it anyway and say, yes I think it’s the fervent hope…
15 Dec 2017 6 min

Being Green - 08 December 2017

It’s Not Too Late; and There’s Always Hope…and it may lie in microbiotechnology. (The Micro-Algae Lamp www.fermentalg.com) Last week I mentioned the progress being made on ocean cleanup – and that’s about 99percent plastic pollution threatening the seas. Increasing amounts of funding are going into it worldwide as governments and…
8 Dec 2017 6 min

Being Green - 01 December 2017

It’s Not Too Late to Save the Planet…. When it comes to waste management there’s a sort of spectrum – from the ‘population unit’ – that’s me and you and her, who consume and produce waste organic and solid, (and we have to manage that as a matter of individual…
1 Dec 2017 6 min

Being Green - 25 November 2017

John Richards spoke to MICHAEL COOKE, Executive Chef at Camphors Restaurant, Vergelegen, about the Woolworths Sustainability Award. Michael Cooke and his team won the award for sustainable and environmentally responsible restaurant management, in the Mercedes / Benz-Eat Out Restaurant-of-the-Year Awards, 2017. Camphors Restaurant was in the Top Ten Restaurants category…
24 Nov 2017 6 min

Being Green - 17 November 2017

Are the Winds of Change blowing? Despite the Trump-driven melodramatic pull-out of the United States, the Paris Climate Agreement talks are continuing with a new round – COP 23 – in the city of Bonn this week. And the message is always the same – CO2 levels are increasing and…
17 Nov 2017 6 min

Being Green - 10 November 2017

Mike Bruton and the Coelacanth Our iconic fish, a legend in itself and a legendary player on the world science scene is…you’ve guessed it, the Coelacanth. Coelacanth research today is as active as ever, and in fact never stops growing. We know so much about the beautiful blue dweller of…
10 Nov 2017 8 min

Being Green - 03 November 2017

WE KNOW WHAT DID THE DINOSAURS IN It’s been known for a long time – going back to the early fossil discoveries – that the pre-historic lizard-like creatures called ‘dinosaurs’ are no longer around. They ‘died out’ – but although there was a wealth of speculation, it was only recently…
3 Nov 2017 6 min

Being Green - 27 October 2017

It’s all been about the poor performance of our economy, slow growth, you name it. A week of painful introspection, no matter how Malusi Gigaba dresses up his words or indeed his person with designer suits and spectacles. There is a lot of talk, comment, on how the economy could…
27 Oct 2017 6 min

Being Green - 20 October 2017

It’s all been about the poor performance of our economy, slow growth, you name it. A week of painful introspection, no matter how Malusi Gigaba dresses up his words or indeed his person with designer suits and spectacles. There is a lot of talk, comment, on how the economy could…
20 Oct 2017 5 min

Being Green - 13 October 2017

Are you checking your eco-footprint? I’m sure you’re saving water, dutifully sorting the recycling, monitoring your electricity usage (are you?) and driving responsibly, planning the journey, maybe even organizing a lift-club. Or seriously considering public transport…
13 Oct 2017 6 min

Being Green - 06 October 2017

Occasionally on Being Green we have extended the definition of ‘environment’ beyond the limits of our earthly realm, to the wider view of other planets, even planetary systems beyond our own solar system. You may remember the stunning images of Pluto, the object now known as a trans-Neptunian, but which…
6 Oct 2017 6 min

Being Green - 22 September 2017

LINDA SCARBOROUGH, Deputy Editor of EAT OUT MAGAZINE talked to John Richards about the restaurant awards that are underway for 2017, The Mercedes Benz Restaurant Awards, combined with the Woolworth’s Sustainability Awards. Entries for restaurateurs close the end of this month (September) and the winners will be announced in November…
22 Sep 2017 7 min

Being Green - 15 September 2017

Wind Energy Gathering Momentum The competing energy forces are lined up in a sort of military display across the world it seems. Everywhere you go it’s Nuclear versus Renewables, versus Natural Gas, with Coal coming in somewhere down the list, usually with an apology – sorry, but we need it…
15 Sep 2017 6 min

Being Green - 08 September 2017

On International Coastal Cleanup Day on 16 September, FMR staff together with 150 listeners will be picking up plastic and other litter on Hout Bay beach. The project is in collaboration with Plastics South Africa. In this week’s edition of Being Green, Glynis Crook speaks to its Sustainability Manager, John…
8 Sep 2017 6 min

Being Green - 01 September 2017

Recycling is one of the many ways we can help to protect the environment. Among other benefits, it saves energy and raw materials, and reduces the amount of harmful chemicals and greenhouse gases produced in landfills. According to 2011 figures, an average South African produces about 3 kilograms of waste…
4 Sep 2017 6 min

Being Green - 25 August 2017

Those of us lucky enough to have electricity in our homes probably still have strong memories of the winter of 2015 when the country experienced regular load-shedding. Rushing home to fill a few flasks with hot water, children trying to get schoolwork done by candlelight, or figuring out at which…
25 Aug 2017 6 min

Being Green - 18 August 2017

It's estimated that almost one third of food produced in South Africa for human consumption is effectively thrown away, most of it ending up in landfills where it produces a large amount of methane, a powerful greenhouse gas. Equally disconcerting it that this happens despite the fact that some 13.8…
18 Aug 2017 7 min

Being Green - 11 August 2017

Being Green this week speaks to Peter Johnston, climate researcher at University of Cape Town’s Climate Systems Analysis Group. He talks about the chances of sufficient rain before the end of winter, what this means for the summer ahead and discusses what more can be done by both the city…
11 Aug 2017 6 min
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