We took seven of our school clubs on an outing to Goedgedacht Farm to celebrate World Environment Day on Saturday. Fifty learners from seven schools joined us for a day of fun in the sun and presented their well thought-out and creative ideas for reducing the carbon footprint of their school. Read on to find out what their ideas are.
Find out how you can join Project 90's 2010 Climate Challenge.
Today is Earth Day! We've posted some ideas you could do to support the need to protect our fragile planet.
The economic downturn is a perfect opportunity to fix rather than throw. ‘It’s cheaper to get a new one’ – how often have we heard or said that? Or ‘beyond its sell-by date’. Built-in – or planned – obsolescence, with us since the 1930s, means manufacturers design their products’ demise or non-functionality within a certain planned timeframe specifically to pressurize the consumer to make another purchase.
Sue Bellinger re-imagine National Cleanup Week. One of the most sustainable activities that I’ve come across is ‘cleanups’. We do them over and over again, in the same places and the same way. Come September we’ll ‘celebrate’ National Cleanup Week. Hordes of community members, schoolchildren and corporate employees will be urged to ‘celebrate’ and participate. [...]
Two students at Michaelhouse private school in the Midlands, KZN have started their own small scale biogas system. Read their story of what they did, what worked and the successes they've had. Hopefully this project can the foundation a school wide biogas generation project.
In her latest article, Sue Bellinger explores the energy wasted whilst preparing our food... read on for an alternative to modern day cooking technology. All that energy going to waste! All that heat and hard work – could we swap it for relaxation and quality time? Recently collecting some more Sunstoves for delivery to increasing [...]
The humble earthworm gives Sue Bellinger food for thought.
Dear friends, I spent the past weekend with some fantastic people participating in a "Grow to live" gardening course with Soil for Life, a non profit organisation based in Constantia, Cape Town. Soil for Life teaches people to grow their own food and it works with the premise – healthy soil, healthy plants, and healthy [...]
Dear friends, A current inspiration at our office is a new book by author and weatherman Simon Gear titled: Going Green, 365 ways to change our world, published by Penguin Books. Brenda Martin, our Director, recently penned this review in our March 2009 newsletter (to receive our monthly newsletter, send us an email with your [...]