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Voting with my fork

Posted on 03. Feb, 2010 by Pia Taylor.

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To eat meat, or not to eat meat – is that the question, or is there more to it than either or? In my view, we need to find a more balanced path to reducing our impact on the planet than overnight global vegetarianism, but there are those who disagree…

Even organic veges couldn’t save me from being mowed down by RoadRunner Flu

Posted on 15. Aug, 2008 by Pia Taylor.

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Wow. There I was getting all smug in the certainty that I was immune. That I was not going to succumb to the mean flu bugs that are taking down half (or more) of Cape Town.
Why? Because I eat organic food, of course, which means I am definitely much healthier (more nutrients, happier plants, blah [...]

A Hard Rain’s A-Gonna Fall: Getting A Reality Check At Kirstenbosch Botanical Gardens

Posted on 20. Jan, 2008 by Pia Taylor.

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I went, recently, to Kirstenbosch Botanical Gardens to see a set of photographs on display there that have been causing a bit of a stir…
They’re part of the Hard Rain exhibition, an outdoor photography exhibit with a strong message: we’re messing up our planet (big-time), and we need to do something about it.
Global warming, climate [...]

International Buy Nothing Day: Could You Spend A Whole Day Buying Nothing?

Posted on 22. Nov, 2007 by Pia Taylor.

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I had the fantastic opportunity to backpack around Europe for several months of this year and came back having learnt how very easy it is to survive with very little at all.
In fact, the thing you learn fastest when you’re travelling with everything on your back is that the less you have to carry around [...]