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Cape composting

By on July 12, 2011 in environment, sustainability

I just found out some interesting info. Did you know that all of the green municipal waste in Cape Town is composted. This is about 800 tons per day. Normally it would have been dumped in a landfill resulting in huge emissions of green house gases, but a company called Soil and More,  based here [...]

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Vote for the new EU Organic logo

Vote for the new EU Organic logo

By on January 22, 2010 in environment, food, garden, sustainability

Hey guys If you are interested why note have your say in what the new EU organic logo will look like. You can vote here Logo 1 Logo 2 Logo 3 Some background information. They came up with this logo before: But it was too close to the ALDI supermarket’s own organic label So there [...]

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Winter Wonderland

By on December 24, 2009 in garden

Well Hi My First post here, will hopefully cool you Durbanites down a little.  I do miss warm Christmases, however there is one thing that compensates, and that is a White Christmas! Although its technically not a White Christmas since it is not snowing, there is still a whole lot of snow hanging out in [...]

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