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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
332 – 352

Being Green - 13 July 2018

Of What Use Are Mosquitoes? Troubled by an out-of-season mosquito last night I mused on the necessity or otherwise of these creatures in the world, and remembered the wry Ogden Nash couplet, “God in His wisdom made the fly, and then forgot to tell us why.” Do not fear, we’re…
13 Jul 2018 6 min

Being Green - 22 June 2018

5th International Climate Change Conference – here in Cape Town. So what has been happening? A lot of high-level talk and information input from academics, researchers, government and semi-government organisations and their staffers in the fields of agriculture and environmental management. I think you can pick up from this –…
22 Jun 2018 5 min

Being Green - 15 June 2018

So you’re in the desert, any desert, far away from infrastructure, how do you ensure a supply of drinking water? No, this is not another episode of Survivor. Well, you can be clever and engineer condensing the night-time dew off your tent, or look around for a dry river-course and…
15 Jun 2018 6 min

Being Green - 08 June 2018

City Sightseeing Company is Carbon Neutral & Sustainable! The Carbon Neutral Bus Company The City Sightseeing buses are red – and you can’t mistake them as they ferry overseas and local tourists around every day to our very sight-worthy sites, too numerous to mention, but Signal Hill and Kirstenbosch figure…
8 Jun 2018 5 min

Being Green - 01 June 2018

I was in SANBI’s Kirstenbosch Gardens last week-end, along with many local, national and international visitors, enjoying one of the great heritage sites and cultural resources of this planet. The backdrop of the wooded slopes of Table Mountain and the ridges of Castle Rock and the mountain plateau – the…
1 Jun 2018 5 min

Being Green - 25 May 2018

Anyone Remember the Ozone Hole? Climate change. Although you may think that the dreaded term is symptomatic of our recent, some would say, obsessive focus, on the topic and the almost daily news of fresh discoveries, warnings and political reactions to climate change, the concern about what we are doing…
25 May 2018 6 min

Being Green - 18 May 2018

GETTING WATER OUT OF THIN AIR John Richards talked to Kai Brummer of Watergen about the atmospheric water-extraction units they are offering. Details at website below. Greetings – your high-school physics probably told you water can be taken up – dissolved – in the air. So you won’t be surprised…
18 May 2018 4 min

Being Green - 11 May 2018

ROBBEN ISLAND IMPROVES THE CARBON FOOTPRINT John Richards talked to DOM WILLS, CEO of Sola Future Energy, the contractor who designed and installed the solar arrays and storage batteries, and the micro-grid operating system, to reduce dramatically the use of diesel electricity generation. Robben Island is a UNESCO World Heritage…
11 May 2018 8 min

Being Green - 05 Mayl 2018

John Richards spoke to EVAN SCHIFF, Event Director of AFRICAN UTILITY WEEK about specific consumer environmental concerns of the energy sector; the public exhibition (at CTICC) of all aspects of water and electricity utilities and producers, especially renewable technologies, and the public workshops available.
4 May 2018 8 min

Being Green - 20 April 2018

It’s EARTH DAY on Sunday. I’m never too sure about these ‘day’ things, but it does provide a hook to hang many feelings, ideas, wishes and enthusiasms on, and it is generally seen as a Good Thing. You may recall – probably not – but you may recall we had…
20 Apr 2018 5 min

Being Green - 13 April 2018

Do You Suffer Ecological Grief? Are you an optimist? It’s like that statistical thing – everyone would rate themselves an above-average driver. You don’t have to be a statistician to reflect that just can’t be true… But still, I think I’m an above-average driver. I think also we are optimists…
13 Apr 2018 5 min

Being Green - 6 April 2018

The ironies of living! Somehow we negotiate them, or try not to think of them. Now here on the green front this is a first for me. I’ve often reported on activists demonstrating on behalf of Independent Power Producers, IPP’s. Stand up for the independents against the looming giant of…
6 Apr 2018 6 min

Being Green - 30 March 2018

How many 5-litre plastic bottles of water did you see on your travels recently? Last week you may have heard here on B/G how the stream of plastic bottles arriving in the Cape is being intercepted and handled, thanks to some smart interactions by plastics manufacturers, and the bottled water…
30 Mar 2018 4 min

Being Green - 23 March 2018

The huge increase in the numbers of plastic water containers of all shapes and sizes migrating to the Western Cape has created a bit of a headache for packaging recyclers in the province, and plans are underway to bale used bottles and send them to Gauteng where there’s sufficient capacity…
23 Mar 2018 7 min

Being Green - 16 March 2018

EARTH OBSERVATION Since the beginning of the Space Age we have been straining to look out and explore the Universe, even taking a few baby steps to escape the confines of Earth, hop onto the Moon, and send robots further and further into the distant reaches of the Solar System…
16 Mar 2018 7 min
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