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Troll Road!

By on October 19, 2011 in environment, sustainability

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 [...]

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To Skin a Cat (latest trailer)

By on October 18, 2011 in environment, sustainability

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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Harvest of Deliciousness!

By on October 5, 2011 in food, permaculture

I am a strong believer in growing some of your own food, even if it is just salad leaves and tomatoes, which we have been doing on our urban balcony. Need to get replanting as spring kicks in though… You can make small permaculture beds pretty much anywhere but for a wider variety of delicious [...]

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Self-watering patch.. or sub-irrigated planters

Self-watering patch.. or sub-irrigated planters

By on October 3, 2011 in food, garden, soil

I saw this on the Eco Footprints site and Dani kindly let me cross-post here… This is an ingenious idea especially if you are going away for a while and have to leave the plants at home… mol-d This past winter I have been busy researching quite a few different growing options.  One of which [...]

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Win some glass vouchers!!

By on September 27, 2011 in flowers, food, sustainability

Hey Spriggers, The kindly folks at Consol have given us two vouchers to hand out worth R500 each, for their shops in Woodmead (Gauteng) and Stellenbosch in the Western Cape (sorry Durbanites and others, I’m sure you have friends and relatives in these parts?). So, now you can personally test-drive the apparent health benefits of [...]

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