Being Green

Being Green - 25 Feb 2022

You may mistake their mission statement for a quote from the A-Team, but the Goat Army Africa is a very real herd of goats that is being used to clear alien vegetation like Port Jackson and wattle. It is the brainchild of Pieter Bosman and Ronnie Visser, and the 'unit'…

25 Feb 2022 7 min

Being Green - 18 Feb 2022

In this week’s edition of Being Green, Glynis Crook, speaks to open water endurance swimmer, Sarah Ferguson, about her bid to swim from Durban to Cape Town to put the spotlight on plastic pollution in the ocean.

18 Feb 2022 6 min

Being Green - 11 Feb 2022

Hello again. Let’s look at some of the headline catchers in recent days. You may remember talk of a “Gas Master Plan” surfacing recently, punted by the fossil-fuel lobby, and the Department of Mineral Resources and Energy which is unashamedly part of the lobby? (I wonder if Minister Gwede Mantashe…

11 Feb 2022 5 min

Being Green - 04 Feb 2022

Earlier this week, the Two Oceans Aquarium announced the exciting news that a female eagle ray had given birth to four little pups. In Being Green, Glynis Crook, speaks to its spokesperson, Renee Leeuwner, about this type of ray and why they do not lay eggs like most fish. You…

4 Feb 2022 6 min

Being Green - 28 Jan 2022

The current debate on electricity tariffs (current –gettit?!) is generating (gettit?) a fair amount of hot air, which is a mixture of gases, which brings us back to gas. Sorry, I couldn’t resist being facetious – all in a good cause, but I’ll stop it now. So, gas – gas…

28 Jan 2022 4 min

Being Green - 21 Jan 2022

In this week’s edition of Being Green, Glynis Crook speaks to Sidney Jacobs, chairman of the Friends of Zeekoevlei and Rondevlei, about steps that are being taken by the City of Cape Town to remove large quantities of reeds and organic sludge from the Rondevlei weir in the False Bay…

20 Jan 2022 6 min

Being Green - 14 Jan 2022

(website quoted): www.climate.copernicus.eu Fire and heat have been very much on our minds recently – this 2nd week of 2022. Funny how, although we know it’s just numbers, the start of the year feels somehow different. Perhaps it’s the new school year, and the media hype and frustrated journos writing…

14 Jan 2022 5 min

Being Green - 07 Jan 2022

Denmark says it wants to make all domestic flights fossil fuel free by 2030. That’s in just eight years’ time. In her New Year’s address, the prime minister did however acknowledge that the solutions needed to reach this target were not yet in place. So what options are out there?…

7 Jan 2022 6 min

Being Green - 31 Dec 2021

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.

31 Dec 2021 5 min

Being Green - 24 Dec 2021

In this week’s edition of Being Green, Glynis Crook offers five tips to make your Christmas celebrations more environmentally friendly.

24 Dec 2021 7 min

Being Green - 17 Dec 2021

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.

17 Dec 2021 4 min

Being Green - 10 Dec 2021

In this week’s edition of Being Green, Glynis Crook speaks to Dr Simon Elwen, director of Sea Search and a research associate at Stellenbosch University’s Department of Botany and Zoology, about the humpback whales that have been spotted all week off the coast of Sea Point, Green Point, and Mouille…

10 Dec 2021 6 min

Being Green - 03 Dec 2021

(www.nature.org) A good green morning to you. At least that’s what we hope will be the greeting from your bank or FSP one of these days soon. There are concrete developments being reported now in the sphere of green investment, and some of these hoped-for announcements go beyond public-relations media…

3 Dec 2021 5 min

Being Green - 26 Nov 2021

In Being Green this week, Glynis Crook speaks to Dr Judy Mann, a conservation strategist at the South African Association for Marine Biological Research’s Oceanographic Research Institute, about oil giant Shell's plan to carry out a seismic survey off the Wild Coast in a search for oil and gas deposits…

26 Nov 2021 7 min

Being Green - 19 Nov 2021

www.oceansnotoil.com Thanks for joining us this morning, and welcome to the post COP26 world, as I’m sure you are relieved to hear. It’s all over bar the shouting as I remarked last time, and thanks to Glynis for wrapping up the take-away impressions for us in her interview last week…

19 Nov 2021 4 min

Being Green - 12 Nov 2021

On the final day of the United Nations Climate Conference, Cop 26, aimed at bringing climate change under control, Glynis Crook speaks to Dr Christopher Trisos, director of the Climate Risk Lab at UCT’s African Climate & Development Initiative, to find out whether he thinks progress has been made.

12 Nov 2021 7 min

Being Green - 05 Nov 2021

Is it all over bar the shouting? At COP26 I mean. The world leaders – those who attended – have departed the stage. Major announcements have been made and photo opportunities for the politically important provided, so what happens now? A lot of negotiating and fine-print examination no doubt, as…

5 Nov 2021 5 min

Being Green - 29 Oct 2021

In Being Green this week, Glynis Crook speaks to Dr Nicolas Simpson, a postdoctoral research fellow at UCT’s African Climate & Development Initiative, to find out what African countries will be hoping for from the United Nations Climate Conference, Cop26, which gets underway in Glasgow this weekend. The talks are…

29 Oct 2021 7 min

Being Green - 22 Oct 2021

GREEN HYDROGEN! Now there is a new term to get your head around in green circles, and it’s assuming more and more importance. You’ll hear more about it I promise you – so here goes. It’s GREEN HYDROGEN. Hydrogen is the colourless light gas we all know and love from…

22 Oct 2021 5 min

Being Green - 15 Oct 2021

As of 2022, the Western Cape Organics Landfill Ban comes into effect. This means that municipalities will be required to divert 50% of the estimated 3 million tonnes of organic waste generated in the province every year from landfills. And that figure increases to a 100% diversion by 2027. The…

15 Oct 2021 7 min