Zero waste sounds daunting. What, for example, can you do with your olds sports kit when it wears thin? The shell after you’ve squeezed an orange? The cork from your...
In South Africa’s waters, says Dr Judy Mann of the Two Oceans Aquarium Foundation, more than 2 000 species of marine fish can be found. Around 320 of these (16%)...
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...
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...
…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,...
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...
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...
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...
In World Diabetes month we’re looking at how poverty and non-communicable diseases go together. So, just noting this here: one in eight South African adults are thought to be diabetic...
