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Heather 21 August 2025 Featured Posts, Ocean Cluster

Zero waste: how might we get there (or thereabouts)?

[Picture shows, left to right: Roberto de Carvalho, Petro Myburgh, Zukiswa Pikoli, Melanie Ludwig and Alison Evans on the podium at Maker’s Landing] This is human nature: we see “free” food – a hotel’s self-service breakfast options, for instance, or…

Heather 7 August 2025 Featured Posts, Food Cluster

Putting the ‘oh’ into Zero Waste

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 bottle of wine? What do you with your pizza box,…

lorenzotf 7 July 2025 Featured Posts, Food Cluster, Ocean Cluster

Sustainable seafood: looking square at the barriers (and finding solutions)

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%) are found only here. In other words, just as the…

Heather 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 to some extent, we can put back the clock, as…

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…