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Beauty Spot: Twyg’s Top 3 Beauty Picks This Month

This month Bekah Vogel has tried and tested three beauty products which contain mostly natural ingredients and are plastic free. By featuring these products, we hope to promote better beauty care, both for you and for the planet. We don’t...

July 29, 2019

Midlands Trashion Show Makes Recycled Plastic look Fantastic

Fashion

Midlands Trashion Show Makes Recycled Plastic look Fantastic

Crisp packets litter the landscape of many Midlands villages. Tetrapak is often burnt, plastic bottles bob in wetlands and take-way plastic tubs clog gutters. There is one ton of plastic for every person on Earth, much of it is packaging...

July 24, 2019

Circular Economy: Inspired by Nature for Nature

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Circular Economy: Inspired by Nature for Nature

We live in a throw-away culture. Globally, people throw away about 3.5 million tons of waste a day – an estimated 880 000 tons of this is plastic. Businesses produce goods for sale and the packaging for those goods. We...

July 22, 2019

Why Waste Headspace Dressing Salad in Haute Trash

Fashion

Why Waste Headspace Dressing Salad in Haute Trash

Milliner Crystal Birch was given an unusual task for Plastic Free July. Well-known for her eclectic collections of designer hats, Crystal diverged from her core business to create fashion garments from single-use plastic packaging. Not for you and me, though,...

July 10, 2019

There is a new space in Woodstock where good things are happening

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There is a new space in Woodstock where good things are happening

Woodstock, a bustling Cape Town suburb known for its narrow streets, urban art and tucked-away treasures, is the home of GOODWoodstock, a new community-focused, mixed-use space. Its emphasis is on sharing economies and bringing together people in a multi-layered space...

July 8, 2019

Sarah Farrell: How plastic-free living led me to grassroots activism

Opinion

Sarah Farrell: How plastic-free living led me to grassroots activism

Five years ago when I first realised how complicit I am in contemporary throw-away culture, I started my sustainable living journey, trying to eliminate plastic, and other waste, from my life. I dedicated my Instagram to this. The more I...

July 3, 2019

How Tanja Wessels copes with eco-anxiety

Opinion

How Tanja Wessels copes with eco-anxiety

When Tanja Wessels saw a coconut wrapped in foam packaging and cling film in her local supermarket something shifted. “I stared at it for what felt like ages, my mind racing and my body unable to move”. She began to...

June 23, 2019

Why Upcycling Suits Katekani Moreku’s Design Style

Fashion

Why Upcycling Suits Katekani Moreku’s Design Style

Katekani Moreku who was brought up in a small village in Bushbuckridge in the north east part of South Africa is as surprised as his family that he has become a fashion designer. Welverdiend is not a place where art...

June 7, 2019

Top Tips: 16 Actions You can Take for the Environment Now

Opinion

Top Tips: 16 Actions You can Take for the Environment Now

On World Environment Day, we’ve asked our friends and colleagues fighting the good fight for advice on the actions we can take to lighten our tread. Some of these 16 suggestions are small and simple but all of us and...

June 5, 2019

Christa Dee makes Hemp Clothes with the Future in Mind

Fashion

Christa Dee makes Hemp Clothes with the Future in Mind

Christa Dee talked to Camilla van Hoogstraten about her new clothing brand, Christa & Louella and about exploring ways to think about the future: Christa & Louella is an eco-luxe brand designing and making fashion for a sustainable future. I...

May 31, 2019

Made in Ethiopia: What Your Clothes’ Labels Could Mean

Fashion

Made in Ethiopia: What Your Clothes’ Labels Could Mean

The fashion industry has been talking about sustainability for a good while now. The environment, living wage, circular economy, climate change are subjects high on everyone’s agenda. This week one of the most important fashion summits took place in Copenhagen...

May 19, 2019

Fashion

Six Ways to Create a Wardrobe of Sustainable Fashion

If you love fashion, you’re in for a treat this month. We’re celebrating South African fashion at SA Fashion Week (3 – 6 April) in Johannesburg and next week at AFI Cape Town Fashion Week (11-13 April). We’ll be thinking a little...

March 31, 2019

Fashion

LUNAR shines a bright light on South African sustainable fashion

Today’s world of fashion gives ‘Zero Fs’ to the planet. The industry is mostly concerned with creating ever-changing trends and making dirt-cheap virgin clothing which is sold fast and cheaply via sales, bargains and two-for-one deals. All done without considering...

March 22, 2019

Our Workshop: Township studio wins Design with Purpose Award

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Our Workshop: Township studio wins Design with Purpose Award

Before making his way to Our Workshop in the morning, Luvuyo Mpoza has already been up since 3am cleaning rubbish bins in Langa, a Cape Town township. When he started his small business almost eight years ago, the 32-year-old couldn’t...

March 12, 2019

FVH X LM knits mohair with heritage of local craft and Karoo landscape

Fashion

FVH X LM knits mohair with heritage of local craft and Karoo landscape

When Leandi Mulder and Frances van Hasselt returned from a residency in Japan, they brought back a nugget of advice. Masaki Sato told the young designers, “Embrace what is unique to your situation”. After applying what they learnt from Sato,...

March 4, 2019

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Beauty Spot: Twyg’s Top 3 Beauty Picks This Month

Midlands Trashion Show Makes Recycled Plastic look Fantastic

Circular Economy: Inspired by Nature for Nature

Why Waste Headspace Dressing Salad in Haute Trash

There is a new space in Woodstock where good things are happening

Sarah Farrell: How plastic-free living led me to grassroots activism

How Tanja Wessels copes with eco-anxiety

Why Upcycling Suits Katekani Moreku’s Design Style

Top Tips: 16 Actions You can Take for the Environment Now

Christa Dee makes Hemp Clothes with the Future in Mind

Made in Ethiopia: What Your Clothes’ Labels Could Mean

Six Ways to Create a Wardrobe of Sustainable Fashion

LUNAR shines a bright light on South African sustainable fashion

Our Workshop: Township studio wins Design with Purpose Award

FVH X LM knits mohair with heritage of local craft and Karoo landscape

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