Being Green

Christmas is done and dusted for another year. But what to do with all those leftovers? The amount of food thrown away by South African households soars over the festive season, ending up in landfills where it releases...

In this week’s edition of Being Green, Glynis Crook together with World Wide Fund for Nature, South Africa’s Senior manager, Circular Economy, Lorren de Kock, offer some tips to make your Christmas celebrations more...

Early morning swimming in the cold water of our tidal pools has become quite a craze here in Cape Town. And with so many of them along our coast, we are spoiled for choice. But these inter-tidal pools are also home to a...

It’s estimated that about 600 million people across Africa still lack access to electricity which is fundamental for economic development. GOGLA, the global association for the off-grid solar energy industry, believes...

Developing nations have blasted the last-minute finance deal reached at the United Nations COP29 climate talks in Azerbaijan. They say the $300 billion in annual climate finance that rich countries have agreed to...

There has been worrying news from the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN). Its latest Red List shows that birds make up a staggering 12 per cent of the world’s threatened species. In Being Green this...

Delegates from almost 200 nations are attending this year’s United Nations climate conference which is widely being described as the "climate finance COP". The main task for countries is to broker a deal that ensures up...

Climate activists have described Donald Trump’s victory in the United States presidential elections as a major blow to global climate action. The results were announced just days ahead of the crucial COP29 conference...

It is just a few days before the United States elections. With Democrat candidate Kamala Harris pretty much neck-and-neck with the Republican’s Donald Trump, the outcome could go either way. But what impact will it have...

The World Wide Fund for Nature’s (WWF’s) latest Living Planet Index shows that the average size of monitored wildlife populations has declined by 73 per cent in the 50 years from 1970 to 2020. A decline in wildlife...

Cape Nature says the illegal trade in succulent plants is the most pervasive wildlife crime in the Western Cape, pushing many unique species to the brink of extinction. In this week’s edition of Being Green, Glynis...

In this week’s edition of Being Green, Glynis Crook speaks to freelance botanist and fynbos specialist, Rupert Koopman, about the critically endangered Cape Flats Sand Fynbos and efforts to revive it.

Vergenoegd Löw is one of the oldest farms in the Cape and makes award-winning wines, but it is also a beacon of sustainable agriculture and eco-friendly practices. And it just happens to have a very cute flock of ducks...

Conservationists are questioning Namibia’s plan to cull over 700 wild animals, including hippos, impalas, wildebeest, zebras, and 83 elephants. The environment ministry says the plan is to distribute the meat to people...

Spring officially arrives this weekend and for many, this time of the year means a reaction to the increased pollen in the air. Some bad news from researchers and doctors is that climate change is not only worsening the...