The Playing with Solar project has been an immense undertaking for Project 90 since the start of February, and at the same time it has been an incredible learning opportunity for us. One of our biggest learnings has been being able to better appreciate different people with different perspectives - Playing with Solar has allowed [...]
I've been lucky to see Project 90 from various perspectives. I've been a curious onlooker as it first started up, hearing of their work in 2009, a member of staff in 2011 and 2012, and a member of the board from 2016. I have always been impressed by Project 90's work - initially with their [...]
Keep It Bag recipe 1: Cabbage and Potato Curry + Butternut Serves 4 Cabbage and Potato Curry Ingredients: Oil – 3 Tbsp Cinnamon - 1 small stick Bay Leaf – 1 Fennel seeds - 1 tsp Cumin seeds - 1 tsp Onion – 1 large, sliced thinly Potato – 1 large, peeled and cubed Cabbage [...]
On 21 June 2017, the Department of Environmental Affairs (DEA) hosted their quarterly National Climate Change Committee (NCCC) meeting with presentations from a variety of government departments including the Department of Energy (DoE), Department of Science and Technology (DST) and Department of International Relations and Cooperation (DIRCO). The DoE’s presentation did not include any new [...]
We are moving into the last segment of the EU funded SMART Citizens in Action project, which will draw to a close in October and there is quite a bit of excitement about seeing many of the project outputs coming together. The most recent milestone has been the completion of the documentary about the project [...]
In early June Richard Halsey joined the South African delegation to the BRICS Political Parties, Think-tanks and Civil Society Organizations Forum in China. The event was held in Fuzhou on the southeastern coast of the country and was attended by over 400 people in total. The gathering bought together representatives from the BRICS nations (Brazil, [...]
On 17 May 2017, the National Union of Mine workers (NUM), in collaboration with the Friedrich Ebert Stiftung (FES) and Sam Tambani Research Institute (SATRI), hosted a symposium to gather more information surrounding the energy needs of South Africa. They invited various civil society organisations, political parties, scientific institutes and government organs to attend and [...]
Following on the success of Playing with Solar in 2016, we were super excited to revamp the project - Playing with Solar 2.0 - for 2017! Over the course of seven weeks, Leadership Club members from 10 different high schools in the Cape Town area were taken on an explorative journey: to understand the basics [...]
It’s not very often you find an awesome volunteer who’s really up for a challenge! Enter Kayla Patel. Kayla is currently in the second year of her Strategic Brand Communications degree at The Vega School, Cape Town. She started out studying media and film at UCT but soon realised it wasn’t for her and followed [...]
Project 90’s Community Partnership team has been highly active since the start of the year: in finalising the engagement process and pilot site development as part of the City of Cape Town’s Nyanga electricity upgrade initiative; running the 4th round of EU Smart citizens workshops and representing BRICS civil society organisations at the 2nd annual [...]