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Dear Customer,
Gree(n)tings
Welcome to the Spring
issue of Green Home's newsletter. As you will see,
the festival season is already upon us and it has
been encouraging to see how many organisers are
becoming aware of making their events more green.
Festivals are a fantastic way to educate and
encourage us to live in a more
environmentally-conscious way. By supplying
festivals with our products we strive to bring
about a shift in people's mindsets which,
hopefully, will have an effect long after the
party is over.
Be part of the
biodegradable revolution.
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Green Home
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Last month, Green Home had an
exhibition stand at the Sustainable Living Expo
which formed part of the University of Cape Town's
first 'Green Week'. The week included a series of
events including, documentary screenings, panel
debates, talks and other awareness raising
activities around environmental issues such as
climate change and sustainable practices.
This
month, Green Home will be represented at the South
African Council of Shopping Centers annual
conference held in Durban. We will be represented
by Organic Carbon in conjunction with A-Z
Philosophy as part of a visual presentation on
sustainable packaging options. We will also be
supplying food stalls at the Magaliesburg Country
Classic Festival, The Great
Escape, in September.
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Green Home in the
media
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The
Table Mountain Cableway Bistro and the Table
Mountain Cafe (which recently opened it's doors)
are both serving delicious food on our
biodegradable plates! Because of this, we have
been featured in Taste Magazine (as one of 3 ways
to save the planet this month) as well as Go
Magazine.
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The methane question: we
go looking for the
answer....
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Degrading, or
decomposing, material produces all kinds of gasses
including, methane and CO2. One of the arguments
against biodegradable packaging is that when it
ends up in a landfill it produces more methane
than plastic. Green Home consulted some
waste-management and compost experts to address
this question. Read
on....
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Greening the festival
scene
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 This
month, the festival season kicks off and we are
very excited that Earthdance, the annually-held
global music festival for peace will be using
Green Home's biodegradable products at this year's
event. For the 11th Earthdance in South Africa,
the theme is 'Honouring the earth' and what better
way to show it than using products that are made
from renewable resources and are 100%
biodegradable!
Green Home will also have a
stand at the Gastronomica food festival in
Knysna this month. For Green Home, Gastronomica's
commitment to promoting 'food with integrity' is
an exciting opportunity to encourage the shift
towards biodegradable food packaging here in South
Africa.
Watch this space for our report
back next month on Rocking
the Daisies, the first carbon-neutral music
festival in South
Africa.
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