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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....

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,...

19 October 2023 Ocean Cluster, SMME Cluster

There’s treasure in the trash

It’s going to take time before humankind course-corrects its relationship with plastic. So what can we do with our piles of plastic waste in the meantime? Here’s some inspiration on...

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...

27 August 2021 SMME Cluster

A new community platform

The Pandemic has been desperately challenging for small business owners. With the very first COVID-19 lockdown, anticipating the global slowdown that was coming, the Waterfront shifted its small business support...

13 August 2021 General

Shared value comes alive

The V&A Waterfront is a mixed-use, nearly 53-hectare neighbourhood that is home to independent retailers and global retail brands; commercial properties, designers and artists and entrepreneurs; residential accommodation and hospitality...