Just in time for World Environment Day (oh, and the World Cup, of course), the industrious folk of the Cape Town Green Map have just launched a shiny new second edition print map, jam-packed with our city’s many green hotspots.
Good news for those of us who prefer to buy meat that’s come from happy, well-tended animals: Wild Trading Store in Woodstock now stocks free-range pork and beef. And that’s not the only good reason to visit this fabulous shop…
The second edition of Shared Earth Magazine is here! It’s been a long wait (the first edition was published in December last year), but has most definitely been worth it. In the new edition you’ll find more “practical ideas for self-sufficiency and sustainable living”, such as how to ‘cook’ compost, preserve bountiful summer harvests like [...]
If you’re crazy about good wholesome food, and wanting to support our ever so talented local producers, I’ve already (highly) recommended a good long perusal of the Wholefood Almanac – the ‘guide to naturally good eating in the Cape’. It’s a book that I read from cover to cover, drooling ridiculously over almost every page [...]
Shared Earth is a magazine I’ve been eagerly looking forward to laying my grubby green paws on since I first found out about its imminent creation back in August… And, folks, I’m happy to report that it has now arrived – and ecstatic to add that it is everything I’d hoped for, and more. Before [...]
So I picked up a copy of the newly launched Simply Green magazine at the Natural & Organic Products Expo last month and have since had a chance to read through from start to finish. It’s one of three new local ‘green’ magazines hitting the shelves this year (the others being the recently launched Red [...]
It’s pretty clear that ‘green’ is going mainstream. On an international level, both Time Magazine and Fortune have recently published green editions, and here at home a number of local magazines have just had ‘green/eco-issues’ (Good Taste Magazine, the latest edition of Pick’n’Pay’s Fresh Living, last month’s The Gardener, to name just the ones I’ve [...]
When one goes down the ‘green’ route, one is always asking questions. Why eat organic? Is it really healthier? What are rBST hormones, and are they really that bad? Is GM necessarily a thing to froth about, or is there too much emotion and not enough fact? I think about these sort of issues all [...]