Go Green

The City of Cape Town was one of the main signatories of the Durban Climate Change Adaptation Charter for Local Government signed on Sunday 4 December 2011.

Thousands of kids at COP 17 in Durban have been telling world leaders to consider them when they decide the fate of the planet in regard to climate change.  The culmination of this demonstration, which actually took the form of some environmental learning so that they could make their plea, is a

The Climate Smart Cape Town Pavilion at COP17, constructed out of 1884 plastic milk crates and over 22 000 plastic milk bottles supplied by Polyoak Packaging, is a temporary structure that has a low-impact on the environment as it will be dismantled after the climate change conference in Durban

Going green is more than just limiting our impact on global warming, recycling and saving water. It’s about realising that we all share the space of our Planet, and that we have a responsibility to take care of it for ourselves and others - for now and for the future.

Ros Walsh, PRO for run co-sponsor, Cipla, said all the money raised through the mammoth run would be handed over to Operation Smile to enable them to continue performing their life changing surgery  on children in Southern Africa.  “It costs just R5 500 to surgically correct a child’s cleft lip

In 1999, a young woman was working on film sets in Cape Town. She was appalled by the amount of food going to waste at the end of filming each day, when across the Peninsula people were starving. She voiced her concerns to a representative of the German film company, Neue Sentimental Film.

Eco-friendly fashion is clothing or accessories designed to be environmentally friendly and ethical. Choosing to support eco-friendly clothing doesn’t mean having to wear a hessian sack.  There are many fabric options on the market today.  Here is a summary of just a few.

Eco fashion, and generally anything that can be labelled “green” or “sustainable”, has been considered hot-selling items in the clothing industry for over ten years.