Now you can become a news creator. One of the great tricks included in our brand new platform is that we can now move towards our target of unifying all good green workers on one page. Inclusivity and collaboration are Green Times founding principles. The idea was never for us to alone source important green news of inspiring initiatives unfolding in our country. Neither are … [Read more...]
Write yourself alive in eco bliss
Would you like to spend time in an eco-village and forest reserve and develop your skill as writer at the same time? Here is your chance to take time out of your busy life and feed your soul: Kuthumba eco village at The Crags, Plettenburg Bay is offering Writing Yourself Alive - A Creative Writing Retreat from 10 to 12 July. Writing is about a conversation with yourself and … [Read more...]
Young scholars invited to write sustainability article
The IHDP Secretariat's Writing Contest is open again! Young scholars are invited to take part and write an article for the third issue of the Dimensions magazine, to be published mid 2013. The issue will focus on the human dimensions of the Sustainable Development Goals that have been widely discussed in the context of the Rio+20 summit. The magazine is directed towards a wider … [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...]
Earth needs your voice
The more we learn about the human induced critical declines over the past 100 years in the life supporting biological systems, which gradually developed on our planet over the past 4 billion years, the easier it is to slide into a place of hopelessness. The truth is so hard to face, that it’s far easier to live in denial – or simply feel depressed and do nothing. Yet we do have … [Read more...]
Respond to the call: Earth needs your leadership
Everyone is a sower of seeds. Every thought you think and word you say sows seeds which ultimately lead to actions. Which future are you selecting – which seeds do you want to sow? We are all aware that the future of humanity is threatened on Earth, just like the millions of species who die out each year due to mankind’s bad rule on this planet. With our focus on material … [Read more...]
Stories help us craft a new reality
Two weeks ago, Pam and I got back from a woodland vacation in Ontario, Canada. While we were there, we learned the story of the privately owned forest we were staying in, the Haliburton Forest and Wildlife Reserve. Starting in the 1870s, lumber companies clear-cut the easily accessible white pine stands in the area. Destructive tree harvesting continued until the 1960s, when … [Read more...]
Towards an organic life
It's preposterous to presume that anybody can talk with any professional credibility about how to lead an organic life. But right now we certainly have to try! I have chosen to expose myself, in the run of a normal working week, to facts and figures that move me deeply. Can anyone listen to our desperate biodiversity loss over the past 30 years and not go into mourning for … [Read more...]
Enslaved to my PC
This poem titled 'Enslaved to my PC' by W Miles won the South African Writers Circle's (SAWC's) Save the Planet poetry competition. mouse, blogs, Twitter and iPods nature thrives outside my pane Then robbers came and ruined it all I was left to emerald kikuyu tingling underfoot, beetles, bird call and butterfly wild Jasmine blooms scent thrills through my … [Read more...]
Write for earth one-day course
Biodiversity Expo, Kirstenbosch 5 May 2011 from 9:00 to 16:00 How do we communicate science with the general public in such a way that our readers are engaged, energized and hooked for more? We will explore bridging the gap between science and society by: Writing with power and passion Cutting the grey noise which puts the non-scientist to sleep Combining … [Read more...]
Planet poetry course
Do you care about the earth's story? Do you love reading and writing poetry? Would you like to combine these passions and write poetry that speaks through creativity and imagination to the heart, mind and soul? The Green Times is starting a poetry corner and you could see your poem published there. Poet and story-teller Dorian Haarhoff can show you how to write with energy and … [Read more...]
