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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,...

7 June 2023 Featured Posts, Ocean Cluster

Wastepreneur innovations launch

In February this year, SOLVE was thrilled to announce that against stiff competition, The Litterboom Project had won our inaugural Plastics Innovation and Circularity Challenge. We’ve long been fans of...

10 May 2023 Featured Posts, General

CSI was R11bn last year. But is business staying usefully connected to social need?

The Rotary Club of South Africa recently invited V&A Waterfront’s head of social impact, Henry Mathys, to join a panel of distinguished speakers that also included Mayor Geordin Hill-Lewis and...

12 April 2023 Featured Posts, Food Cluster, Ocean Cluster, SMME Cluster

SEAFOOD: WHAT DOES ‘SUSTAINABLE’ MEAN ANYWAY?

For many of us, the 2021 Netflix documentary Seaspiracy was the beginning of the end of garlic prawns, fried hake and chips, sushi, pickled fish and any other favourite way...

21 March 2023 Featured Posts, Food Cluster

We’re climatarians!

We’ve finally found the word that wonderfully describes our approach to food: we’re climatarians! Cambridge Dictionary defines a climatarian is someone who makes consistent choices to eat according to what...

6 March 2023 Featured Posts, Food Cluster

The surprising power you and I have to solve the climate crisis

We came across this really interesting TED talk from sharing economy entrepreneur, Tessa Clarke, the brains behind the Olio app which facilitates free sharing of household “stuff”. Payoff line: It’s...

1 March 2023 Featured Posts, General

One Blue Heart: a zero-waste fundraiser for turtle conservation

One Blue Heart was a first-of-its-kind, blue carpet, zero-waste event held in mid-February in support of the Turtle Conservation Centre at the Two Oceans Aquarium Foundation. Responsible Traveller digimag did...

15 February 2023 Featured Posts, General, SMME Cluster

Cigarette butts: a challenge

Here’s a challenge for placemaking: cigarette butts. Smoking is legal, and mostly smokers are sent outside to where their fumes won’t bother others. But that means cigarette butts are often...