2012

The truth about hemp

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Words by Giulia SimoloGreen or not green? Shopping savvy or silly? Here’s all you need to know about hemp: the good, the bad and the eco. Hemp is a variety of cannabis grown for its valuable fibre and seeds. Sometimes people are against hemp as an eco-friendly fibre because growing the cannabis plan

Rachel Briant

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Rachel Briant has always enjoyed jotting down notes and this word nerd habit has now become a career – as a young, freelance journalist she writes on a variety of topics for a number of Cape Town publications.

Green banking with Nedbank

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Words by Rachel BriantThere are certain UK banks that invest only in that which is good, green and clean – namely Triodos (http://www.triodos.co.uk) and the Co-operative (http://www.goodwithmoney.co.uk) – but it is not immediately clear which local banks follow suit. Nedbank advertises itself as a ‘