We recently made a trip to !Khwa ttu, the San Education and Culture Centre, which is a little way up the West Coast. They have a great garden on their premises with a load of medicinal plants. Check out some of these pics and accompanying labels…
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SA Blog Awards Part 2
Hi guys, As you know, last year we won the SA Blog Awards for ‘Best Green Blog‘. A good time! So, we thought we’d give it another go this year. The category and rules have changed a bit. We are now entered in the ‘Best Environmental Blog’ category and the public voting phase only allows [...]
Winners!
Congratulations to our Consol glass competition winners, DubleDave and Dani from EcoFootprints. R500 glass vouchers should be delivered to you sooner than later…. Have fun!
Troll Road!
It seems that for the time being the mining has been halted at Xolobeni. According to Sustaining the Wild Coast, the latest threat to the environment and sustainable development in the area is the proposed toll road (dubbed ‘Troll Road’). It says, “Delegates to COP 17 in Durban must watch this film if they wish [...]
To Skin a Cat (latest trailer)
To Skin a Cat is a campaign aimed at saving leopard populations in southern Africa by changing cultural and religious thinking on the use of leopard skins as ceremonial dress. At the heart of the campaign is a documentary film following Tristan Dickerson of the Munyawana Leopard Project as he tries to create a high-quality [...]
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