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A Place is a Story

A place is a story, and stories are geography, and empathy is first of all an act of imagination, a storyteller’s art, and then a way of…

Jun 10, 2022

A Place is a Story

Jun 10, 2022

Babette Gallard

EXTRAORDINARY PEOPLE

Are you ready to be inspired? Check out my interview with Ferrial Adam, the first in a series of interviews with extraordinary people who…

Apr 17

EXTRAORDINARY PEOPLE

Apr 17

Babette Gallard

‘Delusionists and illusionists’: COP28 presents empty platitudes and more hot air

Published in the Daily Maverick. 14/12/2023

Jan 1

Jan 1

Babette Gallard

My Little Footprint app

Here’s an app that helps you to avoid plastic in your daily life and a video to show you how to use it.

Apr 13, 2023

My Little Footprint app

Apr 13, 2023

Babette Gallard

Plastic Truth

This is a presentation I was asked to give the Rotary e-club. It looks as the truth about plastic and its links with the petroleum industry…

Apr 13, 2023

Apr 13, 2023

Babette Gallard

More than just numbers

One thousand people. Thirty-plus kilometres of river. Fifteen locations. Nine tons of waste removed. A precis of All Spruits Cleanup day —…

Nov 2, 2022

Nov 2, 2022

Babette Gallard

Plastic and carbon credits discredited

I tend to approach things environmental from a standpoint of candid naivety. I don’t have a degree in the subject, I’m not a scientist in…

Sep 28, 2022

Plastic and carbon credits discredited

Sep 28, 2022

Babette Gallard

Load shedding

The term load shedding, used here in South Africa where I now live, is a pernicious homonym for a European like me. When the lights go out…

Sep 27, 2022

Load shedding

Sep 27, 2022

Babette Gallard

Babette Gallard

I campaign and write on and for the environment. It’s all we’ve got and there’s not much left. My book Future Imperfect will soon be published.

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