Motorists, residents and even officials are baffled as to how a hooded figure in a green boat landed up on the Black River. The hooded figure, which resembles the popular depiction of the grim reaper, sits in a boat with a dead branch that has plastic bottles hanging from it and has been sighted on the river since Tuesday last week. Liesbeek River maintenance project … [Read more...]
Celebrate the important things this Valentine’s Day
Love is in the air. The weather is scorchingly beautiful and Valentine’s Day is just around the corner. We live in a part of the world where there are plenty of eco-friendly and inexpensive ways to celebrate love on this day. As is the case with most special days, this day started out with noble intentions as a simple celebration of love, and has evolved into another … [Read more...]
Searching for green folks to profile
Have you started a business making a product that enables others to live more sustainably? Are you over 40 and are not Western Cape-based? If so, please contact Lynne urgently at lynnegidish29@gmail.com; 083 263 0114. She is putting together a Green Hero story for an upmarket magazine and is looking for a man and a woman of different races to profile. … [Read more...]
Values that separate or bind us together
Take a few moments to imagine what you would like our world to look like in 20 years’ time. Look at your neighbourhood, your town, your school and your work. What would be different in the healthy, sustainable world we are working towards? What would it sound and smell like? What would people be talking about? Then make a list of the values we’d have to encourage if we want … [Read more...]
Malherbe takes on another epic journey
Extreme adventurer Braam Malherbe has set his sights on circumnavigating the Tropic of Capricorn in a bid to raise awareness for I-Saw, a charity that focuses on children with cleft palates and burn scars. To date he has risen over R2.5-million. Speaking at a recent Alexander Forbes business breakfast at the East London Golf Club, Malherbe, 55, said his upcoming adventure … [Read more...]
By the river, for the river
In the third Deschutes River Recording, Laura Gibson rises cliffside to put a spiritual spin on "Down by the Riverside." It's another river song, sung riverside, to benefit the Deschutes River Conservancy. … [Read more...]
Creative women find solution for paper waste
In September 2010, a warm-hearted, creative woman in Kleinmond, in the Western Cape, had the idea of teaching jobless women to make gift bags from waste paper. With the support of a friend, they set up a workshop and hired women to learn the skills. Of the original group, two showed their commitment and their willingness to work longer and harder than they were paid to do – … [Read more...]
Art for the environment at this year’s Green Expo
Curated by Janet Botes, the exhibition includes selected artworks that: has an environmental message or explores concepts around ecology and biodiversity are produced or created in a way that considers its impact on the environment in some way offer the viewer new understandings and perceptions about their own relationship and connection with the natural world The … [Read more...]
Winners of student design competition announced
The Plastics Institute of South Africa (PISA) has announced the winners of the Student Design Competition, held in partnership with POLYCO (the industry association promoting the recycling of polyolefin plastics in South Africa), Plastics|SA, Afrimold and the Universities of the Witwatersrand (Wits), Johannesburg (UJ) and Tshwane University of Technology (TUT). Addressing … [Read more...]
Sharing lifts, reducing costs, saving energy
Findalift.co.za is all about encouraging South Africans to share journeys, and the benefits are significant! Readers of the Green Times are encouraged to visit Findalift.co.za, register free and add your journey. It’s secure, takes less than 5 minutes and no personal data about you is visible to anyone or shared with any 3rd party. Simply add your journey and you will stand … [Read more...]
Waste transformed into heirloom furniture
It is time that we drop the word ‘waste’ from our dictionaries. That’s where you find this noun explained as ‘squandering and careless spending’, relating also to the verb’s meaning of ‘expending needlessly and destroying completely.’ I believe that one day the past 100 years will be known as the Era of Waste –and our grandchildren will live to tell the tale of our … [Read more...]
CareTakers: stories that inspire
Has film played a significant role in your life? Have you ever watched a film that influenced your direction, or changed the way you feel or what you do? Laurence Dworkin and George Davis, coordinators of the CareTakers project, believe that film can indeed change the way we feel, think and act. Laurence is Director of an NGO called STEPS (Social Transformation & … [Read more...]
GEDS Becomes Firmly Established
Following its 2011/12 edition, the Gaia Education Design for Sustainability (GEDS) course has become an important reference in the field of sustainability. Offered by Gaia Education in partnership with the Open University of Catalonia (UOC), the course is based on the four key dimensions of sustainability proposed by Gaia Education – the social, ecological, economic and … [Read more...]
