ninjasforhire, Author at V&A Solve

3 July 2025 Uncategorized

CIRCULAR INNOVATION CHALLENGE 2025

With the support of the V&A Waterfront, SOLVE@Waterfront is calling for innovative solutions to address waste challenges in Southern Africa through circular principles. The Circular Innovation Challenge 2025 seeks to promote...

27 November 2024 Featured Posts, Food Cluster

Sustainable seafood: making things possible

There are, after all, not so many fish in the sea, says Michael Farquar, CEO of the Two Oceans Aquarium. We have hopelessly mismanaged the ocean and its resources. But...

4 November 2024 Uncategorized

Meet the winner of our Circular Innovation Challenge

We are pleased to announce that eWaste Africa is the winner of our Circular Innovation Challenge for 2024. EWaste Africa is a 10-year-old Maritzburg-based business which provides solutions for difficult-to-dispose-of...

8 August 2024 Uncategorized

CIRCULAR INNOVATION CHALLENGE 2024

With the support of the V&A Waterfront, SOLVE@Waterfront and the Vikāra Institute, we are calling for innovative solutions to address waste challenges in Southern Africa through circular principles. The Circular...

17 April 2024 Ocean Cluster

LET US MESMERISE YOU

“The most beautiful experience we can have is the mysterious. It is the fundamental emotion that stands at the cradle of true art and true science.” – Albert Einstein, from...

5 April 2024 Featured Posts, Ocean Cluster

EVERY MOUTHFUL COUNTS

The scale of what we waste is eye-watering. Globally, an estimated 1,3bn tonnes of food is wasted each year. Every bit of every plant and protein that comes into our...

3 April 2024 Featured Posts, General, Ocean Cluster

THE FASHION CONUNDRUM

Jackie May, editor of Twyg, wrestles with the complex issues surrounding our love for fashion, the price the planet pays, and the human consequences of where we are at now....

27 March 2024 Featured Posts, Food Cluster

Beating the SMME odds

When Adri Williams bought a heavily indebted business for one rand 10 years ago, it was clearly a heart-over-head decision. But – she’s still going. Here are her pointers for...

27 March 2024 Featured Posts, General, Ocean Cluster

Keeping waste out of landfill

A landfill crisis is looming in Cape Town, as it is in every urban centre. The municipality has drawn a line in the sand in a number of ways ,...

26 October 2023 Featured Posts, Food Cluster

What do we mean, the food system is broken?

…And is there anything you and I can do towards fixing it? Most people, when they think about food, don’t think about it as a system, points out Kurt Ackermann,...