Being Green

In this week’s edition of Being Green, Glynis Crook speaks to Dr Robin Fears, project leader of the InterAcademy Partnership, a global network of academies of science, medicine and engineering, who was one of the speakers at a World Science Forum panel on the impact of climate change on health.

In this week’s edition of Being Green, Glynis Crook speaks to Talitha Noble, conservation manager at the Two Oceans Aquarium Foundation, about its sea turtle programme which is the beneficiary of a charity event taking place this weekend. The DELI2SEA ocean awareness fun run is taking place on Sunday from the Chardonnay Deli in Constantia to the Dalebrook tidal pool and café in Kalk Bay. Tickets on Quicket, and the charitable entry includes a donation to the Two Oceans Aquarium Foundation, in particular, its turtle programme.

In this week’s edition of Being Green, Glynis Crook speaks to Eben Olderwagen, the environmental project manager at Vergelegen Wine Estate, about its involvement in the Quagga Project and the imminent birth of a foal on the farm.

In this week’s edition of Being Green, Glynis Crook speaks to Dr Nicholas Simpson, Senior Advisor and Lead for Knowledge and Practice at the African Climate Mobility Initiative. He delivered a paper earlier this week at the United Nations Climate Conference, COP27, which says that by 2050, 113 million people across Africa will be forced to move because of climate change.

In this week’s edition of Being Green, Glynis Crook speaks to Soil for Life’s CEO, Cindy Buské, and Fine Music Radio’s station manager, Eon de Vos, about a joint project to plant an FMR vegetable garden at WIN Educare in Delft on the Cape Flats. To find out more or make a donation, visit: www.fmr.co.za/soil-for-life/.

In this week’s edition of Being Green, Glynis Crook speaks to Olivia Rumble, a director of Climate Legal who specialises notably in environmental law, climate change, climate finance and development, about the financial expectations of Africa’s negotiators attending this year’s edition of the United Nations Climate Change Conference, or COP27, which gets underway on Sunday.

In this week’s edition of Being Green, Glynis Crook speaks to 24-year-old Capetonian Gabriel Klaasen, who is Youth Coordinator at the African Climate Alliance about the message young South Africans will be taking to the United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP27) which gets underway on 6 November in Egypt.

In this week’s edition of Being Green, Glynis Crook speaks to Keith Anderson, CEO of the e-Waste Association of South Africa (e-WASA) about which electronic items in our households are potentially dangerous for the environment, and how to correctly dispose of them.

In Being Green, Glynis Crook speaks to David Parry-Davies, founder and director of the annual Eco-Logic Awards about this year's winners.

It’s National African Penguin Awareness Day on Saturday 8 October, and in this week’s edition of Being Green, Glynis Crook speaks to Dr Alistair McInnes, Seabird Conservation Programme Manager at BirdLife South Africa, about the Department of Forestry, Fisheries and the Environment’s decision to declare some areas around the major penguin colonies as temporarily closed to commercial fishing, and the Avian Flu outbreak at the Boulders Beach penguin colony.

With news this week that there were leaks in the Nord Stream pipelines used to transport natural gas from Russia to Germany, Glynis Crook speaks to …. In this week’s edition of Being Green, about the potential environmental impact.

As we face more loadshedding, in Being Green this week Glynis Crook speaks to Hilton Trollip, a Fellow in the Global Risk Governance Programme at the University of Cape Town, about how quickly wind turbines and other types of renewable energy systems could be installed in the Cape.

It’s Arbor Month in South Africa, a time when we’re encouraged to plant and conserve trees. Much of the focus each year tends to be on the greening of our cities and towns and the important role trees can play in climate change mitigation. One of the organisations that has risen to the challenge, planting over 200,000 trees in South Africa, Malawi, Tanzania, and Zambia since 2010, is Greenpop. In this week’s edition of Being Green, Glynis Crook speaks to its head of programmes, Zoe Gould-Angelucci, about why the foundation believes the time has come to shift the focus from counting the number of trees planted, to ensuring they have a meaningful impact.

PROUDLY SPONSORED BY GERLINDE MOSER OF RE/MAX. Being Green – Your window on the environment broadcast every Friday morning at 7.15. Glynis Crook will focus on key issues affecting our lifestyles, science and research outcomes, the quest for sustainable living and a healthier planet.

PROUDLY SPONSORED BY GERLINDE MOSER OF RE/MAX. Being Green – Your window on the environment broadcast every Friday morning at 7.15. Glynis Crook will focus on key issues affecting our lifestyles, science and research outcomes, the quest for sustainable living and a healthier planet.

In this week’s edition of Being Green, Glynis Crook speaks to Cedric Coetzee, regional manager for the east region at Ezemvelo KZN Wildlife, which manages nature conservation in KwaZulu Natal, about the ongoing rhino poaching in the province’s Hluhluwe iMfolozi Game Park. It’s believed that over a 100 of the animals have died so far this year.

Over the past few years, there has been increasing concern about the number of trees in Cape Town that are being illegally stripped of their bark. Taking the bark off puts the tree at risk of viral or bacterial infections and can ultimately lead to its death. Lobby group, Friends of Table Mountain, recently raised the alarm about the destruction of Table Mountain National Park’s limited indigenous forests. It says the two areas that are most concerning are Newlands Forest and Echo Valley in Kalk Bay. In this week’s edition of Being Green, Glynis Crook speaks to arborist, Francois Krige, about the issue.

The Southern Yellow-billed Hornbill, whic is endemic to the dry savannas of Southern Africa, was last evaluated by the International Union for Conservation of Nature or IUCN Red List of Threatened Species as of Least Concern. This despite the fact that the population appears to be decreasing. But a recent study at the University of Cape Town into the effect of climate change on their breeding success in the Kalahari Desert found that they could be wiped out by 2027. In this week’s edition of Being Green, Glynis Crook speaks to Nicholas Pattinson, one of the researchers at UCT’s FitzPatrick Institute of African Ornithology.

According to a recent assessment by the International Union for Conservation of Nature, the IUCN, more than 300 species of sharks, and their close relatives, rays, are threatened with extinction. South Africa is in fact one of the top 5 global hotspots for these marine animals, which is why it is good to hear that WILDTRUST, along with the government, has launched a new campaign to protect these incredible creatures. To find out more, in Being Green this week, Glynis Crook speaks to Dr Jennifer Olbers, a marine conservation scientist at the WildTrust’s Shark and Ray Protection Project.

In this week’s edition of Being Green, Glynis Crook speaks to Stephanie Lamour, founder of the social enterprise, Komani, about their reusable sanitary pads. It’s estimated that it could take between 500 and 800 years for one disposable sanitary towel to decompose on a landfill. This is because they are largely made up of plastic. So when you consider that it’s believed that an average woman uses close to 300 sanitary products per year – that makes a lot of plastic out in the environment. In addition to reusable pads, other eco-friendly alternatives include period pants, menstrual cups and organic pads which have gained popularity in recent years.