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Our zero waste heroes show us how to lighten up

You would have heard of the zero waste movement by now. The “priestess of waste-free living” Bea Johnson, a French woman in America, toured South Africa a year ago to promote the global movement, and her book, Zero Waste Home....

June 14, 2018

Features

The T-shirt that keeps plastic bottles out of the ocean

Update: Since this article was published, Into The Green has closed. Roxanne and Stefan have referred us to a colleague for a similar offering Fashion labels across the world, including G-Star Raw, H&M, Gucci, Adidas and North Face, are using fabric made...

June 12, 2018

Fashion

Closet Wise: Five ways I’m making my wardrobe more sustainable

For five months, Luanne has been studying, writing and reading about sustainable fashion. Closet Wise is a bi-monthly column about her journey to becoming a sustainable shopper. When you decide to embrace eco-fashion, and in particular, an ethical approach to...

June 11, 2018

Features

Heather Moore has built her business on kindness and fun

Heather Moore, the creative force behind much-loved South African décor brand, Skinny laMinx, believes that her transparent relationship with her clientele plays an important part in her success. “People who follow Skinny laMinx can’t help but know that real people...

June 7, 2018

Opinion

Talking Rubbish: “The more I refuse, the more plastic I find to give up”

Welcome to Twyg, Sarah Robyn Farrell! Talking Rubbish is Sarah’s new monthly column about living as lightly as she possibly can. She writes about the trials and tribulations of reducing, recycling and refusing, and of finding ways to lessen her carbon...

June 4, 2018

Features

RiverBlue Review: “The question remains whether big retailers will make the right decisions”

After watching the River Blue my attitude to water, and to my wardrobe has changed. Yours will too. The Vancouver-produced documentary is a sobering look at the fashion industry and how it has prioritised profit over planet. The film, released...

May 17, 2018

Fashion

The new PICHULIK collection is a call for rain

When I visited PICHULIK’s new Cape Town studio in mid-April the ground around my house (I can no longer call it a garden) was bone-dry. I had an appointment with fashion designer Nadya von Stein to talk about the PICHULIKbyNadya...

May 2, 2018

Features

Bolt Threads makes a new “leather” from mushroom roots

You’ll remember Bolt Threads from a striking yellow dress designed by Stella McCartney last year. She used a spider silk grown in Bolt Threads’ laboratory. The fabric innovators this week introduced the world to its second new-generation material. Called Mylo,...

April 19, 2018

Food

Waste not, want more at the Belmond Mount Nelson

A five-course meal made from food that otherwise would have ended up in a dirt bin or the hotel’s worm farm, proves that that there is no such thing as food waste. But how good does it taste?

April 4, 2018

Food

ABALOBI: the app that gets sustainable fish from small-scale fishers to your plate

Bistro1682 in the Constantia is the first restaurant to try the app and says that the number of people ordering fish to eat has skyrocketed.

March 29, 2018

Opinion

Look out for these speakers at Design Indaba 2018

We have combed through the list of Design Indaba speakers looking for those talking directly to sustainability. These are the four speakers we will follow closely.

February 19, 2018