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nicktf 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 kitchens represents resources: all have taken energy, and water, and…

nicktf 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. A few Sundays ago, I visited a large secondhand clothing…

nicktf 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 how SMMEs can beat the odds. One of the reasons…

nicktf 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 , including banning organic waste from landfill by 2027. It’s not…

nicktf 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, CEO of the SA Urban Food and Farming Trust. Instead,…

nicktf 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 how waste can be directed towards social good, from The…