Kuyasa Sees The Light As South Africans face huge hikes in their electricity bills, people living in an informal settlement on the outskirts of Cape Town have turned to the sun to provide for their heating needs in Africa´s first project registered under the Clean Development Mechanism (CDM).The
Looking for a new eco travel destination? Well why not take a trip to one of the below eco nations´ green shores… Based on Yale University’s Environmental Performance Index (EPI) for 2008, which measures factors such as a country’s environmental health, air pollution, water resources
Interview with SASSI´s Timony Siebert… Hot on the heels of a recent episode of Carte Blanche which exposed the mislabelling of fish that is going on in the Western Cape, we thought we´d publish our interview with Timony Siebert, Coordinator for Southern African Sustainable Seafood Initiative (S
It’s been a long time since Alicia Silverstone was “Clueless.” Since then she’s earned accolades on screen and stage, most recently in Donald Marguilies’ “Time Stands Still,” directed by Tony Award winner Daniel Sullivan, which she’ll take to Broadway in January. At the same time, the longtime envir
… And PACT is here to prove it! PACT is the brainchild of two unlikely business partners who joined forces in the most unlikely of places. Jason Kibbey is a born-and-raised Berkeley leftie who started his own land conservation non-profit, drives a Prius, and loves his bike(s). He also likes bu
This Saturday, 24 October 2009, is International Day of Climate Action. 350.org was founded by U.S. author Bill McKibben, who wrote one of the first books on global warming for the general public, and a team of university friends.Together, they ran a campaign in 2007 called Step It Up that organized
Last week saw Portland, Oregon host it´s annual Fashion Week and it’s gone green for the second year in a row. Featuring eco-couture, urban casual, street- and active-wear from all over North America and the globe, Portland Fashion Week is “the world’s only comprehensively eco-sustainable production
Shades Natural Color was started by one of Beverly Hills´ and Hollywood´s top colourists, Susan Henry. Her client list reads like a who´s who of Hollywood. But 8 years ago, that almost came to an end. Susan began experiencing symptoms of ammonia poisoning as a result of daily exposure to ammonia-bas
Dame Vivienne Westwood supports the PRP at London Fashion Week Fashion industry icon and enthusiastic environmentalist Dame Vivienne Westwoodlaunched her 2010 Red Label Spring/Summer collection at London Fashion Week on Sunday, September 20th with a special kind of green show…In support of The
Ever wondered where the term ´tree hugger´ came from…? Well it´s not what you thinking! The term actually comes from back in the day when the hippies used to farm marijuana on pieces on farm land and so when helicopters and planes flew over they would ´hug the trees´ to try and disguise the mariju