PinnedBabette GallardA Place is a StoryA 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, 2022Jun 10, 2022
Babette GallardEXTRAORDINARY PEOPLEAre you ready to be inspired? Check out my interview with Ferrial Adam, the first in a series of interviews with extraordinary people who…Apr 17Apr 17
Babette Gallard‘Delusionists and illusionists’: COP28 presents empty platitudes and more hot airPublished in the Daily Maverick. 14/12/2023Jan 1Jan 1
Babette GallardMy Little Footprint appHere’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, 2023Apr 13, 2023
Babette GallardPlastic TruthThis 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, 2023Apr 13, 2023
Babette GallardMore than just numbersOne thousand people. Thirty-plus kilometres of river. Fifteen locations. Nine tons of waste removed. A precis of All Spruits Cleanup day —…Nov 2, 2022Nov 2, 2022
Babette GallardPlastic and carbon credits discreditedI 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, 2022Sep 28, 2022
Babette GallardLoad sheddingThe 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, 2022Sep 27, 2022