Harvest swapping is a new trend growing in popularity around Johannesburg and Cape Town. Home grown produce is taken to a harvest swap event and exchanged for vegetables and other…
I Love Diepsloot is a fashion brand using recycled materials to create designer handbags and other accessories in aid of job creation and charity. I Love Diepsloot was started…
The City of Cape Town is the first government to use alternative and unconventional building methods for public buildings, the Delft ECD is the first eco-building of it’s kind. On…
The City of Cape Town is taking a step forward in waste management and renewable energy and this is great news for Capetonians. Cape Town generates on average about…
Growers in the country say they’re excited about the future prospects for Stargrow’s deeper-red Aztec Fuji Apple cultivar FruitNet have reported that a new, highly coloured mutation of apple is…
The future of recycling is looking ever more attractive with machines soon to grace the country that swallow up recyclable plastic bottles and aluminium cans and then spew out financial…
A 6-year-old boy has taken the Internet by storm after a video showing just how distraught he was about the impact of pollution on the environment. “For years, we’ve heard environmentalists…
A young man has founded and developed a business called The Ocean Clean up. The aim of the business is to rid the world’s oceans of plastic; their point of difference…
The concept for the Futuristic Bus called Transit Elevated Bus (TEB) can reduce pollution in China and efficiently transport passengers to their destinations. The vehicle looks like a futuristic space…
Architecture firm Swisatec just announced plans to build a self-contained “Green Village” in Cape Town, South Africa that will be completely car-free and powered by solar energy. Taking up approximately…
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