Being Green

Being Green - 08 Oct 2021

Nobel Prize in Physics Goes to Climate Change Researchers This week saw the announcement of the Nobel Prize in Physics, one of the Big Nobels. Coincidentally, or perhaps not so coincidentally, the news in London was full of flooding and disruptions after torrential rainstorms over the city.

8 Oct 2021 4 min

Being Green - 01 Oct 2021

The rapid expansion of the wine industry in the early 2000s led to concerns that the vineyards were encroaching on the Western Cape’s two unique global biodiversity hotspots – the Cape Floral Kingdom and the Succulent Karoo. So, the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) decided to partner with farm…

1 Oct 2021 7 min

Being Green - 24 Sept 2021

A significant event took place a few days ago in Southern England. Not exactly earth-shattering, but we’ll probably look back on it in years to come as the start of a new age. An age of electric transport heralding another de-carbonisation initiative. What am I talking about? The first flight…

24 Sep 2021 4 min

Being Green - 17 Sept 2021

It’s National Recycling Day today, and in this week’s edition of Being Green, Glynis Crook speaks to Melanie Ludwig of Organics Recycling Association of South Africa about new rules coming into effect in the Western Cape next year with regards to organic waste in landfills, and how we can use…

17 Sep 2021 7 min

Being Green - 10 Sept 2021

Tuna Populations Bounce Back Good news for a change and it’s sorely needed amidst the political turmoil and natural disaster events abounding on the media at present, to say nothing of COVID-19, so we won’t say anything about it. Good news? Well, there is some, say marine conservation scientists. The…

10 Sep 2021 4 min

Being Green - 03 Sept 2021

In this week’s edition of Being Green, Glynis Crook speaks to the World Wide Fund for Nature-South Africa’s environment behaviour change lead, Pavitray “Pavs” Pillay, about the recent breach of a decommissioned landfill at Witsand which resulted in large quantities of litter spilling onto the beach and out to sea…

3 Sep 2021 6 min

Being Green - 27 Aug 2021

The fates seem to conspire sometimes, (I know that’s ridiculous coming from an old skeptic like me) BUT anyway…there was excitement a few days ago about the phenomena in the sky above Gauteng, when a slow-moving meteor seemed to be breaking up and heading in the direction of Botswana, with…

27 Aug 2021 4 min

Being Green - 20 Aug 2021

Last week on Being Green, John Richards spoke about the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s sixth climate assessment report which had been published a few days earlier. It was the first to be released by the United Nations body since 2014 and comes ahead of the COP26 summit. The meeting…

20 Aug 2021 7 min

Being Green - 13 Aug 2021

The climate-change community is abuzz with the latest report just put out by the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, to give it its full jaw-breaking title, but we’ll switch to IPCC, much easier. This is the final and authoritative report on the state of play before the COP…

13 Aug 2021 5 min

Being Green - 06 Aug 2021

In this week’s edition of Being Green, Glynis Crook speaks to Adam Harrower, a botanist at Kirstenbosch National Botanical Garden about an alarming story in the New York Times detailing the extensive trafficking of succulents, many of them endangered, that are unique to the Western and Northern Cape. South Africa…

6 Aug 2021 6 min

Being Green - 30 July 2021

The Perfect Storm? It’s been a really tough week or week-plus whether you’re in the Northern or Southern Hemisphere on this rocky planet, and I’m not talking about the geology. The north-Americans and the Europeans have been rocked by off-the scale summer weather events. Heat and floods. Records don’t even…

30 Jul 2021 4 min

Being Green - 23 July 2021

As several countries in Western Europe count the cost of the recent devastating floods, and hopes of finding survivors fade, scientists are saying this type of flooding could hit the region far more often in the future. In this week’s edition of Being Green, Glynis Crook speaks to climate scientist,…

23 Jul 2021 7 min

Being Green - 16 July 2021

Hybrid Concrete Solutions www.arcinnovations.co.za I’m sure at this time you are contemplating going outside and grappling with whatever plans you have for getting through today and making it to the weekend; or you may be in the traffic as the sun breaks through, or tries to, on this winter morning…

16 Jul 2021 5 min

Being Green - 09 July 2021

In this week’s edition of Being Green, Glynis Crook speaks to Renee Leeuwner, the Two Oceans Aquarium’s spokesperson, about its “Ocean Superhero” campaign which showcases the spectacular superpowers of marine animals. To find out more visit: www.aquarium.co.za.

9 Jul 2021 6 min

Being Green - 02 July 2021

Two Fundamental Necessities for Viable Community Living. www.greencape.co.za Hi from me JR. To preserve a reasonable frame of mind and by-pass the elephant in the room, I’m going to focus on a few insights into two of the fundamental necessities for reasonable living. First up is water. Promised in the…

2 Jul 2021 5 min

Being Green - 25 June 2021

In this week’s edition of Being Green, Glynis Crook speaks to Jan Arkert, a geologist and researcher for The Green Connection, about a Canadian company which has been granted a licence to explore for oil and gas in one of Africa’s most environmentally-sensitive regions. The areas in Botswana and Namibia…

25 Jun 2021 10 min

Being Green - 18 June 2021

How Did Climate Change Action & Carbon-Capture Fare at the G7 Summit? The pizazz and self-important bustling of the G-7 international leaders, their handlers, media persons and all the enablers of that ilk are departed from picturesque Carbis Bay in tourist-friendly, picturesque Cornwall. (My great-aunt Lily had a small shop…

18 Jun 2021 5 min

Being Green - 11 June 2021

In this week’s edition of Being Green, Glynis Crook speaks to Dr Tess Gridley about an epic journey made by a grey whale that travelled more than 25,000 kilometres from the waters of the northern Pacific Ocean, where this species typically feed and breed, to Walvis Bay in Namibia. Gridley,…

11 Jun 2021 6 min

Being Green - 04 June 2021

“Out of the Mud – proof that the ‘Anthropocene’ goes back further than scientists thought.” Hi – thanks for joining us on BG. Sorry about my croakiness but it’s a proud badge. I had my vaccine shot a few days ago and there have been a few mild side effects…

4 Jun 2021 5 min

Being Green - 28 May 2021

In this week’s edition of Being Green, Glynis Crook speaks to Brett Jordaan, the CEO of the Centre for Regenerative Design and Collaboration, both Global and South Africa, about its pilot plant in Cape Town that has been making a concrete modifier from plastic waste. The product replaces the sand…

28 May 2021 6 min