Being Green - 10 Jan 2025 - How clean is Cape Town’s coastal water?

Towards the end of last year, scientists from the European Union said 2024 was set to be the world's hottest since records began. Data from the Copernicus Climate Change Service also showed that extraordinarily high temperatures would persist into at least the first few months of 2025. In this week’s…

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 harmful methane gas, a major contributor to global warming. In this week’s…

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 environmentally friendly.

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 diverse number of sea creatures. In this…

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 off-grid solar energy could help provide electricity to over 40 per cent of them. In this week’s edition of…