The holidays can be surprisingly heavy on waste, so it pays to be mindful of yours these holidays. Not only will you reduce your environmental footprint, but you can also support waste collectors by ensuring that your recyclables are clean and separate. December is often a time for people to do a bit of a declutter at home or at the office. If it’s time to clear out those … [Read more...]
Sharing joy from Africa to the world this festive season
Sustainability, collaboration, creativity and compassion are the foundation of the V&A Waterfront’s festive season this year. The 2020 festive period is preceded by months of global upheaval, extended moments of isolation and change that few of us could predict or control. Cape Town’s V&A Waterfront is ready to contribute to humanity’s attempts to restore hope and they … [Read more...]
Achieving a sustainable festive festive season
Keeping the holidays eco-friendly may seem like a daunting and perhaps, at times, even a somewhat impossible task. However, there are entirely manageable strategies to ensure that you can celebrate the Festive Season fully while also achieving sustainability. The Festive Season is often a time where waste increases. Many products that are not eco-friendly and/or … [Read more...]
Food security campaign launched on World Food Day
The One Small Spoon campaign echoes the theme of today’s 2018 World Food Day, ‘Our actions are our future’ and emphasises that if we come together we can solve seemingly intractable problems such as hunger. Woolworths celebrates World Food Day with the launch of the One Small Spoon campaign to unite its employees, customers, suppliers, farmers, and other partners in a … [Read more...]
The new gift of Christmas
Every year I write a Green Christmas story. About green shopping, green tree decorations and greener holidays. Poor planet. Up goes resource extraction, up goes the mounds of waste, up goes water consumption, up goes everyone’s footprint – people driving and flying all over the place. Over-spending, over-eating, over-drinking. It’s this über mentality that got us into … [Read more...]
An important time of year to be mindful of waste
Most of us will generate 25 percent more waste during the holidays as compared to the rest of the year. During the excitement of the holidays, it’s easy to forget about the extra waste that is generated and how everyone can play an important part in reducing its impact on landfills. When it comes to trimming waste and conserving resources, recycling plastic bottles is an … [Read more...]
Don’t let load shedding spoil your holiday
Load shedding is a fact of life for the foreseeable future in South Africa and a little planning and creativity can alleviate a lot of the unpleasantness during the holidays. This is according to Evan Schiff, event director of the annual African Utility Week and Clean Power Africa conference and expo in Cape Town. Higher electricity prices in South Africa have become an … [Read more...]
Buy local this festive season
This festive season is likely to be another 'big spender' for South African consumers – how you spend that money can make a positive impact on the country and its people. You can walk into any shop at the moment and get the message: this is the season when we spend it. In fact, South Africans spend almost twice as much money in December than during any other month of the … [Read more...]
Dreaming of a green Christmas
While we were capturing and crafting stories to inspire you our readers and prove to you that our world carries close to her heart a bunch of caring folk who thrive on doing good work, while we were jumping around trying to attend and write up as many green events as possible and while we were teaching, sharing and generally having fun living our best lives … 2012 ran out. You … [Read more...]
Christmas 2011: a great time to buy local
As the holidays approach, the giant Asian factories are kicking into high gear to provide us with monstrous piles of cheaply produced goods - merchandise that has been produced at the expense of South African labour. This year will be different. This year South Africans will give the gift of genuine concern for other South Africans. There is no longer an excuse that, at gift … [Read more...]
Have a Green Christmas
I was walking in the mall with my son who noticed all the Christmas trees when I realized that I do not know why we have Christmas trees. Which made me wonder about the Christmas tradition and what it has become; surely it was not meant to be this mad rush we experience every year. Therefore I decided to explore Christmas knowing that as a parent I help build my son’s memories … [Read more...]
Green Fair initiates this greeny
I had just finished my degree on Thursday, when Elma called me to ask if I would come to Hout Bay with her the next morning. When I heard we were going to a Green Faire, I was unsure what to expect. I knew the venue would be a primary school, so I pictured a bunch of merry-go-rounds chanting Michael Jackson’s famous ‘Heal the World’ a thousand times over. I figured it could … [Read more...]
I’m dreaming of a green Christmas
The year of our memorable South Africa-hosted 2010 Soccer World Cup is spinning to a close. We're already halfway through December! Every morning you're bombarded with Christmas jingles on the radio and reminders that it's time to shop shop 'til you drop. You can't get away from it, every supermarket has a Christmas special advertisement on television and in the newspaper … [Read more...]
