South Africans are definitely starting to get greener. You can see the evidence on the supermarket shelves: in the past six months, the number of organic or “green-branded†products in my local Pick ‘n Pay seems to have multiplied exponentially, and even Checkers has started marketing its organic vegetable line. This can only be in [...]
If you haven’t yet seen Peter Menzel’s extraordinary photographs from the book “Hungry Planet: What the World Eatsâ€, now’s your chance. Time magazine online has created a photogallery using 15 of his images. They’re fascinating shots of ordinary families from around the world – from California to China to Chad – surrounded by the food [...]
A solar billboard that generates electricity for a primary school in the Johannesburg township of Alexandra has won a Grand Prix award at this year’s Cannes International Advertising Festival. Touted as the first billboard of its kind in the world, it has 10 solar panels which produce enough electricity to power the lights and fridges [...]
British retail chain Asda, a unit of Wal-Mart, has tripled the number of organic lines it offers, from 325 to 1,000, in the past 18 month in response to a rising demand for organic foods in Britain, Reuters reports. At the Reuters Consumer and Retail Summit held in London, Andrew Higginson, finance and strategy director [...]
South Africa could earn R40-million from the sale of its elephant ivory, David Mabunda, the chief executive of South African National Parks (SANParks), told The Star newspaper in a report published on June 20 2007. South Africa will be selling 30 tons of stockpiled tusks to Japan, Mabunda said. This follows last week’s decision by [...]
London hosted a landmark fashion event this weekend. Five-hundred fashionistas, according to a Reuters report, descended on a second-hand clothes shop to feed their cravings for designer labels with a spot of “ethical swappingâ€. This was no ordinary second-hand shop, though. Situated between Harvey Nichols and Harrods on the very upmarket Brompton Road in Knightsbridge, [...]
