Daily Maverick | Was I wrong about acid rain?
When you write a wide-ranging book on a controversial subject, there is always a risk that somewhere, in one paragraph among 80,000 words, you’ll make an error. If you do, your opponents will bludgeon...
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Author promotes a balanced way of looking at the environment. When Ivo Vegter wrote the book Extreme Environment, he knew that the material on page 27 would cause an issue, but he did not realise just...
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Debut of FrackNation in South Africa
At the Knysna Literary Festival, Ivo Vegter, author of Extreme Environment, presented a spirited debate about the modern environmental movement and the ways in which environmentalism, media,...
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2013 Alan Paton Award Longlist
The Alan Paton Award is a South African literary award for meritorious works of non-fiction. The award is named for Alan Paton, author of Cry, The Beloved Country, and it is sponsored by the Sunday...
View ArticleProps for Extreme Environment
Motoring journalist Alex Parker clearly enjoyed the read: In his excellent and, I think, definitive book, Extreme Environment, author, columnist and scourge of lazy tweeters Ivo Vegter lays out...
View ArticleExtremely misconstrued
Sipho Kings is entitled to disagree with the opinions expressed in my book Extreme Environment (“Finding facts to suit arguments“, Summer Books, November 16 to 22), but I would like to draw your...
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Review of Extreme Environment
A review of Extreme Environment by G McDermott originally published 25 January 2013. Extreme Environment (hereafter EE) is a book sure to inspire sharply divided opinions. That said, my own view falls...
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Fresh, challenging, intriguing: Ashleigh Hein on Extreme Environment
Chemical engineering student, Ashleigh Hein, reviewed Extreme Environment after being assigned it as a book review project at UCT. We were kindly permitted to publish the review here. Fresh,...
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Extreme Environment Review
The following review of Extreme Environment, by Ivo Vegter, was published on Random Reads: Taken from the review done by Environment, People and Conservation in Africa magazine. In a nutshell, Vegter...
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TEDxCapeTown review
Coerene Vosloo, a Communication Science student at UNISA reviews TEDxCapeTown with mention of Ivo Vegter’s presentation at the event: “Ivo was brave enough to challenge the mind instead of affirming...
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