Welkom aan al ons nuwe RSG intekenaars! Dit is heerlik om ook soms op Afrikaans te klets.
My converted pool seems to have been a hit this month as a nifty response to stage 3 water restrictions in the Cape. I spoke on the radio about it, and long conversations have been had. All is of course a work in progress and this is already a journey of 3 years. I am certainly happy that I can go away and my veggie seedlings remain watered.
I also carry buckets full of this nutritious water to my fruit and nut trees. A live ecosystem has become the middle point of my emerging food forest. Little paradise fish add nutrients to feed the plants, whilst they eat the algae and keep the pool clean. Plant roots filter the water.
It is a long story which I will tell in full during the coming month. I think it’s fun to turn your response to environmental crises into creative games. There’s always another plan to be made – innovative living outside the old box keeps life interesting.
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We have learned so much the past month about women’s breast health. I hope to see some of you at our natural breast care events in Somerset West and Cape Town. Contact me for details if you don’t have them. Follow the Hummingbird Centre on Facebook and of course the Green Times too!
Happy reading
With love
The green team
PS. Remember to check out exciting upcoming events on our calendar.
A landmark international agreement to create the world’s largest marine park in the Southern Ocean has been brokered in Australia, after five years of compromises and failed negotiations.
The GreenMatter Fellowship is designed to connect a community of outstanding champions, leaders and advocates who contribute positively towards managing and maintaining our country’s biodiversity.
Hunger is undeniably an intensely personal and political issue. Hunger has laid waste to human civilizations from the dawn of time. It has driven conquest and war. It has birthed revolutions.
Water shortage? How to use what you have and thrive. List as many benefits as possible to this home-made system and stand a chance to win one floating island, worth R1200.
Near the Eastern border of Germany is the little village of Proschim. This community is a shining example of what is possible in terms of smart, progressive energy provision.
The Great Barrier Reef has been declared dead by scientists at 25 million years old — bringing an end to the colorful life of the world’s largest single structure of living organisms.
If scientists can figure out how to convert atmospheric carbon dioxide into fuel – and do it at an industrial scale – it would, quite literally, change the world.
At a cramped police station serving as a makeshift clinic, Darline Derosier tended to the wounds of those injured when Hurricane Matthew slammed into Haiti’s southwestern peninsula.
When it comes to our understanding of the unfolding global crisis, each of us seems to fit somewhere along a continuum of awareness that can be roughly divided into five stages.
Millions of women are wrongly diagnosed with ‘breast cancer,’ concluded the National Cancer Institute (NCI) commission last year, thanks to over-diagnosis via mammograms.
Most women have no idea that simply not wearing a bra can have a major impact on the likelihood of developing breast cancer – one of the major killers of women in the western world.
It’s not often that you have the luxury of stumbling upon a wholesome, nourishing cookbook for ‘littlies’, that covers everything from weaning to toddler-hood.
The Anglican Church of Southern Africa (South Africa, Swaziland, Lesotho, Angola Mozambique and Namibia) passed a motion at their Provincial Synod to divest from fossil fuels.
