This years’ Celebrate Life Festival includes cutting edge consciousness speakers, great workshops and a fabulous fashion show in aid of breast cancer awareness. And we are going to form a green circle with green products and services.
“Fracking no, fracking never! Clean energy, now and forever!” chanted about 140 protestors from various communities in Cape Town, as they took to the street on Human Rights Day, to protest against plans that Royal Dutch Shell and other companies have to explore for shale gas in the Greater Karoo Basin.
800 million of the one billion starving people in the world would have food to eat if Americans all became vegetarian.
On Sunday a wonderful gathering of families with children and dogs met to challenge the proposal of a major office block set to be built on Chapman’s Peak, estimated to cost around R58 million.
Tonight, an important film is being shown at The Hub in Woodstock. "How to save the world - One Man, One Cow, One Planet".
We recently participated in our country’s first Green Expo at the CTICC in Cape Town.
Learners from Bloemhof Girls€™ High School joined several hundred Cape Town learners for an International Bloemhof Girls€™ High School on Milnerton€™s lighthouse beach.
According to a new protocol baboons can be shot for minor misdemeanours in suburbs around the Peninsula. Jenni Trethowan of Baboon Matters lost the contract to manage the Baboon Monitor Project started 11 years ago to protect the last remaining Chacma baboons of the Cape Peninsula.
When you visit €˜Harvest of Hope€™ for the first time you realise how little you know of what is happening in our communities.
This month Waverley Hills organic farm near Wolseley, in association with Cape Nature started a community environmental education programme. The aim was to provide children in the local community with a sense of pride and to create a `greener` environment.
Imagine an office space that uses the latest eco-friendly materials and technologies to create a completely sustainable environment; a tranquil, airy workspace filled with natural sunlight and surrounded by natural foliage. My team and I are lucky enough to occupy just such a workspace - a sustainable building in Westlake Business Park, Cape Town.
It was a delight this morning to attend the opening of the innovative Woolworths €˜greenest store yet€™ at the new Palmyra Junction shopping centre in Claremont, Cape Town. This funky green space is surely the greenest foodmarket in South Africa.
Sustainable development in a city where everything is moving and changing at a tremendous pace is not a challenge for the faint-hearted. The harsh reality is that Cape Town is going through an extraordinarily rapid urban growth and transformation process which will have far-reaching consequences if not managed properly.
Take an early afternoon off from work (beat the traffic!) and join a bunch of concerned citizens (including Rob Zipplies €“ back from his epic climate-change-awareness-raising cycle from Cape Town, via Joburg and Pretoria to Durban for a symbolic candlelight vigil outside the US Consulate in Westlake, Cape Town. Bring a candle, a jar to protect the flame (or a candle cut-out if the south-easter is blowing!), a placard, or just yourself and join us in a peaceful demonstration to demand a meaningful commitment by the US government to CO2 reductions.
Take an early afternoon off from work (beat the traffic!) and join a bunch of concerned citizens (including Rob Zipplies €“ back from his epic climate-change-awareness-raising cycle from Cape Town, via Joburg and Pretoria to Durban for a symbolic candlelight vigil outside the US Consulate in Westlake, Cape Town. Bring a candle, a jar to protect the flame (or a candle cut-out if the south-easter is blowing!), a placard, or just yourself and join us in a peaceful demonstration to demand a meaningful commitment by the US government to CO2 reductions.
