Verlede week se artikel oor Plastics|SA se African Marine Debris Summit in The Green Times was niks anders as WONDERLIK nie. Ek kon sien dat julle baie moeite daarmee gedoen het, en selfs uit julle eie uit, video’s en foto’s van die vorige jaar se Summit en foto’s /bio’s van hierdie jaar se sprekers gaan opsoek het en bygevoeg het. Die eindproduk was fantasties!
Baie dankie vir die blootselling wat jy vir die Polstyrene Council hierdie week gegee het tydens jou onderhoud met Radio Kansel (Pulpit) Ontbyt/ Breakfast – Get Up and GO 9/Mar/2015 12:09:25 The Green Times Weekly green feature with Elma from the Green Times. She talks about polystyrene recycling in schools which is used for funding the Bread Tags for Wheelchairs project. Dis regtig wonderlik om te weet dat ons ‘n gesoute en passievolle joernalis soos jy aan ons kant het. Indien ons dit nog nie vantevore gesê het nie, ons waardeer jou!
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Hi Green Times team,
Well done on an excellent website!
With the Strand as my birthplace I truly appreciate the local articles you share.
Green Times has become my new favourite favourite site. It is like a “one stop shop” for news, education, interaction and whole lots more.
Thank you for this amazing site that I will share with all my collegues at PetroSA.
– Beverley of PetroSA:
Hi Elma. Sounds like all the radio stations subscribe to The Green Times as I’ve had 3 requests for radio interviews this week all referring to your publication and that they picked up on the story there. Nice going!
– Yolanda of Energy Cybernetics
Elma. Thank you so much for the article about me and my business. I’ve had so much feedback and praise. I even have an interview scheduled tomorrow with SAFM. Thanks so much for taking the time to sit with me and listen to my story.
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Our society faces a fork in the road now. Either we continue with our destruction of our Earth life support systems, or we rapidly learn to live within Earth boundaries. The wise choice is of course to live within the constraints the biosphere sets for us. But this requires a deep reassessment of everything we do, including the values that are most dear to us. The Green Times has for years been at the vanguard of informing us on what must be done. Elma and her colleagues are a shining light amongst the social and environmental change movement.
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– Michael of Conversion Lighting
The Green Times has a special place in my working day. In an era of information overload but not enough time to sift through it all, the Green Times helps to keep me up to date with Sustainability-related news and some of the latest research findings relevant to South Africa. Through the lens of the Green Times I see how innovative and persistent people are in their determination to move the needle of transformation, and it inspires and motivates me to push through the barriers of bureaucracy, red tape and denial to providing solutions that are good for the whole. The Green Directory has assisted as a starting point for academic research into the growing prevalence of sustainability-driven businesses and connected me to like-minded people who can assist me or I them in our endeavours to bring sustainable development into mainstream South Africa. The Green Times alerts me to courses, conferences and seminars that are taking place on a variety of subjects. Some of the articles provoke me to respond or to send them on to friends and business colleagues, which then builds the circle of knowledge and debate, which is sorely needed in this country. I trust this publication and believe there is a high level of integrity in the journalism, which cannot be said for many other “green” publications.
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