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Cape composting

Shaggy — Tue, 12 Jul 2011 10:35:18 +0000

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 in Holland organises for it to be composted, avoiding the emissions.

They work with a company called Reliance in Cape Town. They get the emissions savings accredited and the resulting carbon credits are sold to companies who wish to reduce their carbon footprint. This company does similar projects in Brazil, India, Mexico and Egypt, and soon in Ethiopia too. Cool, huh?

Vote for the new EU Organic logo

Shaggy — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 16:30:56 +0000

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 was a competition to design a new logo…

Winter Wonderland

Shaggy — Thu, 24 Dec 2009 15:36:23 +0000

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 my garden.

It has been a record amount of snowfall, and especially since it remained on the ground, it has been quite an experience!

Having resisted playing in the snow till my exams were over, I now spent my time making a kickass Snow Gnome in the garden.

I have big plans for the summer, with an organic veggie garden in the back, however, for the moment its winter rest and snow fun!

Peaceful Greetings and a great Festive Season to you all…

Take Care

Shaggy the Mountain Gnome