Being Green

Being Green - 23 February 2018

How are you doing on your water saving? I have sallied out a number of times to my water meter and done the arithmetic, and I can report we’re doing OK, just on the right side of 50litres per person per day. I hope you do not detect a note…

23 Feb 2018 5 min

Being Green - 16 February 2018

16 Feb 2018 6 min

Being Green - 09 February 2018

9 Feb 2018 6 min

Being Green - 02 February 2018

It’s A Puzzling World… Greetings. I’d like to illustrate what a puzzling world we inhabit. And have some fun too of course. President Trump got a few grudging approvals in his State of the Union speech, so it’s not all negative for him. He certainly didn’t get approval from the…

2 Feb 2018 7 min

Being Green - 26 January 2018

26 Jan 2018 6 min

Being Green - 19 January 2018

ARE THE SPECIES OF THE WORLD LIVING THROUGH THE “6th EXTINCTION”? You’ve probably heard this before: we’re in the middle of an era when the rate of extinction of natural species is accelerating with unprecedented speed – species are going extinct as we speak – POP! – there goes one…

19 Jan 2018 7 min

Being Green - 12 January 2018

PLASTICS, MINING, AND ZUMA IN ORBIT The first week or two of a new year seems to bring out some bizarre stories, at least you could use that term. Perhaps it is something to do with the disruptions of the so-called Festive Season. Journalists and their media are not exempt…

12 Jan 2018 6 min

Being Green - 05 January 2018

The Drought Charge drought.charge@capetown.gov.za I’m sorry to start the B G year off with Water, but as this will be a dominant topic in the next little while, and since I am freshly returned from water-rich Gauteng, well, I can’t think of a reason not to. Water-rich Gauteng – not…

5 Jan 2018 6 min

Being Green - 29 December 2017

BEING GREEN 2018 Continua. It’s that strange inter-mezzo kind of period for many of us. Between one number and the next, the odometer clicking over into 2018 year-number, so here goes on the year in retrospect. As you would expect when it comes to the state of our planet and…

2 Jan 2018 4 min

Being Green - 22 December 2017

BEING GREEN 2018 Continua. It’s that strange inter-mezzo kind of period for many of us. Between one number and the next, the odometer clicking over into 2018 year-number, so here goes on the year in retrospect. As you would expect when it comes to the state of our planet and…

22 Dec 2017 4 min

Being Green - 15 December 2017

Will the Winds of Change Blow Any Good? With the hugely hyped one-and-only Conference on the doorstep, it’s tempting to write some cleverclog rhetorical query like “Will the Winds of Change be blowing next week?” Well let me answer it anyway and say, yes I think it’s the fervent hope…

15 Dec 2017 6 min

Being Green - 08 December 2017

It’s Not Too Late; and There’s Always Hope…and it may lie in microbiotechnology. (The Micro-Algae Lamp www.fermentalg.com) Last week I mentioned the progress being made on ocean cleanup – and that’s about 99percent plastic pollution threatening the seas. Increasing amounts of funding are going into it worldwide as governments and…

8 Dec 2017 6 min

Being Green - 01 December 2017

It’s Not Too Late to Save the Planet…. When it comes to waste management there’s a sort of spectrum – from the ‘population unit’ – that’s me and you and her, who consume and produce waste organic and solid, (and we have to manage that as a matter of individual…

1 Dec 2017 6 min

Being Green - 25 November 2017

John Richards spoke to MICHAEL COOKE, Executive Chef at Camphors Restaurant, Vergelegen, about the Woolworths Sustainability Award. Michael Cooke and his team won the award for sustainable and environmentally responsible restaurant management, in the Mercedes / Benz-Eat Out Restaurant-of-the-Year Awards, 2017. Camphors Restaurant was in the Top Ten Restaurants category…

24 Nov 2017 6 min

Being Green - 17 November 2017

Are the Winds of Change blowing? Despite the Trump-driven melodramatic pull-out of the United States, the Paris Climate Agreement talks are continuing with a new round – COP 23 – in the city of Bonn this week. And the message is always the same – CO2 levels are increasing and…

17 Nov 2017 6 min

Being Green - 10 November 2017

Mike Bruton and the Coelacanth Our iconic fish, a legend in itself and a legendary player on the world science scene is…you’ve guessed it, the Coelacanth. Coelacanth research today is as active as ever, and in fact never stops growing. We know so much about the beautiful blue dweller of…

10 Nov 2017 8 min

Being Green - 03 November 2017

WE KNOW WHAT DID THE DINOSAURS IN It’s been known for a long time – going back to the early fossil discoveries – that the pre-historic lizard-like creatures called ‘dinosaurs’ are no longer around. They ‘died out’ – but although there was a wealth of speculation, it was only recently…

3 Nov 2017 6 min

Being Green - 27 October 2017

It’s all been about the poor performance of our economy, slow growth, you name it. A week of painful introspection, no matter how Malusi Gigaba dresses up his words or indeed his person with designer suits and spectacles. There is a lot of talk, comment, on how the economy could…

27 Oct 2017 6 min

Being Green - 20 October 2017