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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
312 – 332

Being Green - 07 December 2018

Good news and bad news if you live in South Africa. We’re pretty used to the bad news, always something new. Or something recycled, like load shedding which has come back with a bump. Or continuing quagmires and conundrums like unemployment; the economy, the staggering and reeling SOE’s and…I don’t…
7 Dec 2018 7 min

Being Green - 23 November 2018

When you look at the moon a bit closer up you see all these craters, circular rims with level floors and usually a large mountain in the centre. And there are thousands of craters of all sizes pock-marking the surface, evidence of the Moon’s pretty violent history. There’s been no…
23 Nov 2018 5 min

Being Green - 16 November 2018

John Richards talked to Agripa Munyai of Tetra Pak SA about developments in the company’s recycling initiatives. Tetra Pak had its beginnings way back in1929 in Sweden, and was developed during WWII and came onto the packaging scene in the ‘50s and ‘60’s big time. It’s one of the most…
19 Nov 2018 6 min

Being Green - 02 November 2018

For a long time promoters of “green” thinking have been urging businesses and industrialists to take the impact of their activities into account. It’s common sense really – if you look after the goose that lays the golden eggs, the golden eggs will keep coming. Farming obviously is one of…
2 Nov 2018 5 min

Edit episode Being Green - 12 October 2018

John Richards spoke to KATE STUBBS of the company Interwaste about the challenges of wasted food products and discarded and out-of-date food. World Food Day: The plight of hunger highlights the travesty of food waste Johannesburg, 16 October 2018 - According to recent statistics, South Africa produces 10 million tonnes…
19 Oct 2018 6 min

Being Green - 12 October 2018

Last week I said rather flippantly “One-and-a-half-degrees Good; Two degrees Bad.” Might have been an echo of Animal Farm? If this is new to you, don’t worry, I’ll explain. The big debate was in South Korea early this week, where the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change – the IPCC -…
12 Oct 2018 6 min

Being Green - 05 October 2018

The Climate-Change Saga Continues – another episode. Climate scientists push for 1.5 degrees! There’s another big pow-wow coming up in the Climate Change story on Monday. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change – IPCC – is meeting in South Korea to review progress on the wide extent of things to…
5 Oct 2018 5 min

Being Green - 21 September 2018

Triumph for Citizen Democracy It’s quite likely that you’re a member of the Botanical Society, or “BotSoc” as they say here in the Cape. A lot of BotSoc members also listen to Fine Music Radio. And vice versa. But seriously, the Botanical Society is a key institution in the history…
21 Sep 2018 6 min

Being Green - 14 September 2018

As Hurricane Florence begins to impact on the coasts of the Carolinas and the United States media accelerate into their customary, barely hysterical reporting on this very energetic weather, the timing of the Trump Administration’s latest energy-policy volte face seems, well, unfortunate. What is the change in the policy? The…
14 Sep 2018 5 min

Being Green - 31 August 2018

Biodegradable, compostable plastic carrier and food bags will begin trending in South Africa before the end of the year as more shoppers turn their backs on environmentlly toxic single use plastic bags that choke marine life to death and pollute the planet. This is the vew of Andrew Smith, co-founder…
31 Aug 2018 7 min

Being Green - 24 August 2018

John Richards talked to LINDA SCARBOROUGH editor of Eat Out Magazine, about the EAT OUT WOOLWORTHS SUSTAINBILITY AWARD for restaurants. Entries are now open for the country’s most prestigious accolade for sustainable restaurants. Launched in 2016 as a first for South Africa, the Eat Out Woolworths Sustainability Award acknowledges a…
24 Aug 2018 7 min

Being Green - 10 August 2018

Out of many remarkable and stand-out women in natural history and the environment movement I’m arbitrarily focusing on a few today, just to bring them to mind and acknowledge their amazing achievements, against all the usual odds, plus the dimension of gender discrimination. Jane Goodall, primatologist, anthropologist, activist and so…
10 Aug 2018 6 min

Being Green - 03 August 2018

KUSINI WATER – Murendeni Mafumo If we’re to have any hope of surviving let alone flourishing as a species on this environmentally challenged planet, one of the most important areas that we can do something about is right in the field of what we’re good at – invention, innovation, disruption…
3 Aug 2018 8 min

Being Green - 20 July 2018

Antarctic Research Planned to Get a Handle on Climate Change It’s the depth of mid-winter in the Antarctic now, so research activity is a little curtailed, and those who can carry on in the darkness and the cold are doing so with their usual focused enthusiasm – it’s the only…
20 Jul 2018 6 min
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