Fine Music Radio Being Green

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
60 – 80

Being Green - 08 Dec 23_ Sam Kimmins energy director of International NPO, The Climate Group

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Some 120 governments have now signed a pledge to triple the world’s renewable energy capacity by 2030, essential to delivering the scale of emissions reductions needed globally to combat climate change. South Africa is not one of them, despite our abundant renewable energy sources. International NPO, The Climate Group, has…
8 Dec 2023 6 min

Being Green - 17 Nov 23_Dr Sara Andreotti-Stellenbosch University marine biologist

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In this week’s edition of Being Green, Glynis Crook speaks to Stellenbosch University marine biologist, Dr Sara Andreotti, who together with a group of scientists and environmentalists has developed an eco-friendly shark barrier which is being used for the first time on a private island in the Bahamas.
17 Nov 2023 6 min

Being Green - 10 Nov 23_Liz Sole and Kallie Doran-Revival of Arnold Street dog park

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In this week’s edition of Being Green, Glynis Crook visits the Arnold Street dog park where she meets with retired music teacher, Liz Sole, and artist Kallie Doran, two of a group of Observatory residents who have got together to revive the space for the pleasure of both humans and…
10 Nov 2023 7 min

Being Green - 03 Nov 23_Mark Alexander-Professor of Civil Engineering

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Concrete is the most widely used man-made material in existence, but it is also one of the worst climate change offenders, contributing at least 8% of greenhouse gas emissions worldwide. But, for the moment, we can’t live without it. In Being Green this week, Glynis Crook speaks to UCT Emeritus…
3 Nov 2023 6 min

Being Green - 27 Oct 23_Gert van Tonder-Garden at Tokara wine estate

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In this week’s edition of Being Green, Glynis Crook speaks to moss artist, Gert van Tonder, who has created a spectacular garden at Tokara wine estate, about the role this seemingly unimportant plant plays in protecting the environment. The garden is open to the public for 4 days during the…
27 Oct 2023 6 min

Being Green - 20 Oct 23_Dr David Roberts-Clinical veterinarian for Sanccob

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In this week’s edition of Being Green, Glynis Crook speaks to Dr David Roberts, a clinical veterinarian for the Southern African Foundation for the Conservation of Coastal Birds (Sanccob) about the critical endangered African Penguin and the fight for their survival. Penguin adoptions assist with fundraising. It cost R600 to…
20 Oct 2023 6 min

Being Green - 13 Oct 23_Samantha Ralston-Paton of BirdLife South Africa

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In this week’s edition of Being Green, Glynis Crook speaks to Samantha Ralston-Paton of BirdLife South Africa about the dangers that wind turbines pose to birds and a new potential solution that is being tested in the Western Cape.
13 Oct 2023 6 min

Being Green - 08 Sept 23_Dr Nicholas Simpson of the African Climate Mobility Initiative

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In the declaration at the end of the inaugural African Climate Summit in Kenya this week, African leaders proposed new global taxes and reforms to international financial institutions to help the continent fund actions that will help it adapt to increasingly extreme weather. In Being Green this week, Glynis Crook…
8 Sep 2023 6 min

Being Green - 25 Aug 23_Prof Francois Engelbrecht, a climate scientist at Wits University

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- In Being Green this week, Glynis Crook talks to Prof Francois Engelbrecht, a climate scientist at Wits University’s Global Change Institute about a new study which suggests that the extreme weather and weather-related events experienced in the northern hemisphere this summer will increase in frequency and severity unless the…
25 Aug 2023 6 min

Being Green - 18 Aug 23_Mike Allsop

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Although it still feels like we are very much in the depths of winter, spring is not too far off. And as the flowers begin to bloom, so bees begin to emerge from their hives in search of pollen and nectar. In Being Green this week, Glynis Crook speaks to…
18 Aug 2023 7 min

Being Green - 11 Aug 23_Mary-Ann Mandishona, CEO Cash 4 Trash

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A new initiative called Cash 4 Trash has begun installing Reverse Vending Machines at shopping centres in Gauteng, which people can use to deposit their plastic bottles, aluminium cans, and glass bottles in return for digital cash. In this week’s of Being Green, Glynis Crook speaks to Mary-Ann Mandishona, the…
11 Aug 2023 6 min

Being Green 28 July 23_Boshoff Muller, director of Afrimat Hemp

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If you take a stroll along the increasingly trendy Harrington Street in the CBD, you will come across a 12-storey building that is making waves across the world. Almost completed, the Hemp Hotel has been named the world's tallest building to be constructed from hemp blocks and hempcrete. In this…
28 Jul 2023 6 min
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