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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
292 – 312

Being Green - 07 June 2019

In this week’s edition of Being Green, Glynis Crook visits the Oranjezicht City Farm. She speaks to its manager, Josephine Fitzmaurice about why it was set up, how Capetonians can go harvest their own fresh organic vegetables there, what’s currently growing, and the farm’s educational programme. For more information, please…
7 Jun 2019 5 min

Being Green - 24 May 2019

In Being Green this week, Glynis Crook speaks to Dr Jacqueline Bishop from the University of Cape Town's Institute for Communities and Wildlife in Africa about a new study which has found that common rat poisons used by Capetonians are spilling over into the city’s natural environment creating a serious…
24 May 2019 5 min

Being Green - 17 May 2019

In this week’s edition of Being Green, Glynis Crook speaks to Dr Heather Walton who is a senior lecturer in environmental health at King’s College London. She’s the lead author of a new study which shows that some 1,000 Londoners are hospitalised every year with asthma and serious lung conditions…
17 May 2019 5 min

Being Green - 26 April 2019

In this week’s edition of Being Green, Glynis Crook speaks to March Turnbull of the Quagga Project about what happened to the animals that were moved from the Groote Schuur Estate in 2017.
26 Apr 2019 5 min

Being Green - 12 April 2019

Another Chapter in the Energy Debate The energy struggles rage on, as you well may expect, despite a lull in load-shedding implementation. Whether ESKOM is really upping their game, or is just grimly trying to plaster over the cracks and hold on because it will not do the ruling party…
12 Apr 2019 6 min

Being Green - 05 April 2019

FMR this week reported how a record number of dead dolphins, many of them severely mutilated, have washed up on France’s Atlantic coastline over the past few months. More than 1 thousand have been found with injuries which experts say are typically the result of being caught in industrial fishing…
5 Apr 2019 4 min

Being Green - 29 March 2019

It is 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 large quantities of the powerful greenhouse gas, methane. In Cape Town, Growthpoint Properties, in partnership with Dutch green technology provider…
29 Mar 2019 5 min

Being Green - 22 March 2019

John Richards talked to JASON McCAIN, Chief Operating Officer of INTERWASTE, South Africa’s leading waste management and recycling company. The general area discussed:- • How much is South Africa currently recycling? • Considering the amount of waste recycled in the country, how much could the country actually recycle? • Recycling…
22 Mar 2019 8 min

Being Green - 15 March 2019

A GIANT BEE! (www.globalwildlife.org ) Entomologists exploring in Indonesia have found a giant honey-bee, or at least re-discovered it. After days & days of searching on the isolated islands of Indonesia scientists’ funded by GWC, Global Wildlife Conservation, found a female bee and photographed and videoed it. Now this is…
15 Mar 2019 5 min

Being Green - 08 March 2019

ENERGY CONTINUES TO GRAB THE HEADLINES In a week where we all got hit in the pocket with fuel-price hikes, and spent the time nervously glancing out of the corners of our eyes for the next un-announced load shedding event, I suppose it’s not surprising that the enduring energy crisis…
8 Mar 2019 6 min

Being Green - 01 March 2019

A Different Take on Zero-Waste Retailing The REFILLERY is a new company which offers zero-waste direct to consumers grocery retailing on-line and at retail outlets in Gauteng. John Richards spoke to joint CEO DOM MELOTA about the philosophy and business plan, and practicalities of how it works. The REFILLERY is…
1 Mar 2019 6 min

Being Green - 22 FEBRUARY 2019

MARINE BIOLOGY AS MATRIC SUBJECT South African education departments are introducing MARINE SCIENCES, including Marine Biology as a tertiary entrance (Matric) subject. John Richards talked to Russell Stevens, Head of Education, at the TWO OCEANS AQUARIUM about plans to introduce the teaching and evaluation of the subject in selected South…
22 Feb 2019 6 min

Being Green - 15 FEBRUARY 2019

Water Aid Pledges Clean Water and Sanitation for Africa Water Aid is an international NGO focused on improving sanitation, hygiene and access to clean water. They hosted the 5th Conference on Fecal Sludge Management in CapeTown, 20 February. John Richards spoke to ELIJAH ADHERA, director Southern Africa for Water Aid,…
15 Feb 2019 6 min

Being Green - 08 FEBRUARY 2019

Marine Plastic Pollution John Richards talked to RUSSELL STEVENS, Head of Education at Two Oceans Aquarium, about the upswing in marine plastic pollution awareness and steps worldwide to tackle the challenge.
8 Feb 2019 5 min

Being Green - 25 JANUARY 2019

WOW! THE EMPHASIS HAS CHANGED ON THE GLOBAL SCENE. (About time, I hear some respectfully green citizens of the World murmuring…) The rich and powerful and corporatized and powerful and political and powerful and scientific and powerful people have been meeting in Davos for the annual snow –and--ice circus. And…
25 Jan 2019 6 min

Being Green - 21 December 2018

We’re into the final stretch of 2018, but don’t worry, life will go on and we’ll just put different numbers to it. There have been some encouraging moves in the policy sphere of environmental intervention, regulation, whatever you want to call it, in the past year. Breakthroughs in limiting single-use…
21 Dec 2018 5 min

Being Green - 14 December 2018

I said a bit flippantly last week that some of our environmental-related hassles seem to be recycled – like the Eskom load-shedding business, which is on hold at the moment – fingers crossed. But the Eskom woes are far from over – in fact they may just be beginning. Certainly…
14 Dec 2018 5 min
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