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| THE TOILET PAPER STORY … A task of moving unbleached into the mainstream |
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Do any of you remember the Brown Roll? This was Green Home’s first toilet paper product. It was quite distinctive because of its colour and people either loved it or hated it.
So what happened? Why did it come to an end? This article is an attempt to explain the goals and decision making processes that inform the selection of the environmentally friendly products that we supply. Read more here.
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| MOVING PLANET: A Day To Move Beyond Fossil Fuels |
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The 350.org Moving Planet event this Saturday, 24th September, in Cape Town will feature a huge march/parade with floats, costumes, puppets and thousands of people, young and old, marching to make change. Come on your bike, on foot, on skates or on a board. Come with your friends, your family, your neighbours and your co-workers. It's time to get moving on the climate crisis. Event details here.
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| FOR THE LOVE OF THE PLANET: Local eco-activist cycles over 15 000km across 20 countries |
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Kayden Kleinhans, a 27 year old from Cape Town, is the founder of the local NGO Global Wheeling Foundation. He set out on his epic solo bicycle journey on the 3rd October 2010 from the UK, cycled through Europe; hopped on a ferry from Spain to Morocco; crossed the Sahara Desert and travelled through the western bulge of Africa where he attended the World Social Forum in Senegal before being denied access into Nigeria. He then returned to Cape Town and continued his journey cycling up the east coast of South Africa, through Lesotho and Swaziland and into Mozambique. All in all, in 11 months he has cycled over 15 000 km across 20 countries, and this is only phase 1 of his journey.
And to what end you might ask? Well, to raise awareness about climate change; promote bicycle culture and challenge conventional modes of carbon rich transport; and plant a few thousand trees along the way, of course. Read more about Global Wheeling and Kayden’s many adventures here.
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| VIDEO OF THE MONTH: Bicycle Portraits: Staying Alive |
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Stan Engelbrecht and Nic Grobler are two passionate cyclists who are currently travelling through South Africa by bicycle to meet and photograph as many cyclists as they can for their book Bicycle Portraits: Every Day South Africans and their Bicycles. They are documenting who rides bicycles, why they ride them, and if they enjoy using bicycles as their primary mode of transport. Watch this video of just some of the beautiful South African’s they have met so far set to the coolest version of 'Staying Alive' we’ve ever heard: 'Sohlala Siphila' by African Noise Foundation.
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| NEWS WATCH: Coastal Clean-up; Reinventing the Landfill; Community Recycling and more. |
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Plastic Not Fantastic: More than 20 000 volunteers combed South Africa's coastline on Saturday the 17th September for International Coastal Clean-up Day. While this year’s inventory will only be available in October, the Cape's top 5 litter items for 2010 were: 7494 plastic bottle caps and lids, 4867 plastic bottles, 4199 food wrappers and containers, 4041 plastic bags and 3806 plastic straws.
Reinventing the Landfill: Ideally, we should all compost our own waste or send it somewhere to be composted. But for the green waste which does still end up in landfill this project in Durban is successfully capturing the methane gas from decomposing green waste that ends up in the eThekwini landfill.
Trashback Rewards Community Recycling: A community recycling initiative was recently launched in Hout Bay's informal settlement, Imizamo Yethu. 'Trashback' provides locals with incentives to clean up their communities and has the potential to transform community recycling in SA.
Local Farmers Feeling Effects Of Climate Change: Understanding the effects of climate change on agriculture is a complex and challenging issue , but the reality is that effects are already being felt by farmers here in SA and elsewhere.
Move Over Joe Camel: Plastics Lobby Targets Kids in Textbooks: Another excellent article from Lisa Kaas Boyle of the Huffington Post about plastics industry propaganda masquerading as ‘truth’. While this article may be from the US, the issues raised are just as relevant here in SA.
Raising Awareness Of Plastic Waste: Most of us are familiar with the concept of a carbon footprint, but whoever heard of a plastic footprint? A new international initiative, the Plastics Disclosure Project asks organisations to assess their plastics usage in an attempt to raise awareness about the vast amounts of plastic waste entering the environment.
Drakensberg Also Under Threat Of Fracking: While many South African's are aware of the proposed 'fracking' for gas in the Karoo, most are unaware that large parts of the Free State, Eastern Cape Highlands and KZN are also under threat.
The True Cost Of Nuclear Energy: Greenpeace SA recently presented their latest report The True Cost of Nuclear Energy in South Africa to the Department of Environmental Affairs. The report outlines SA's "costly nuclear history, its failure to learn from past mistakes, and how the country could leave dirty and dangerous energy behind by investing in renewables."
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BIODEGRADABLE RECIPE: Chocolate Filled Banana’s on
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Biodegradable food packaging at its best! This would be the packaging that food naturally comes in. We’re going to bring you a series of simple and delicious biodegradable food packaging recipe ideas over the next few months.
We South African’s just love to braai and with Heritage (a.k.a. Braai) Day coming up this weekend we thought it apt to start with these lekker chocolate filled bananas.
Get the recipe from Green Flavour.
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| HIGHLIGHTS |
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Tilly's Hand Made Ice Cream is now using Green Home's 100% biodegradable and compostable containers for their out of this world ice creams.
Life Outside The Box's incredible organic, vegan, raw, sugar-free and dairy-free chocolates are packaged in Green Home's 100% biodegradable packaging.
Arts On Main, Fox street, Johannesburg, are now also using our compostable packaging. Thanks for joining the biodegradable revolution. Arts On Main!
Green Home will be exhibiting at the Gauteng Good Food and Wine show from 22 – 25 September. Come visit us at our stand which will be close to the BBC Lifestyle stand.
On the 1st October 2011 we will be releasing our new product price list. Watch this space for new products, reduced pricing and stock to clear.
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