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Everything impacts everything; yet we tend to act as if our actions have isolated effects. For example, washing with ...

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Wood fires are great. But they can be smoky. Here’s a simple trick to reducing smoke and increase heat - how efficient is that!

With the winter chill setting in many of us will be burning ...

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Soil works for you if you work for the soil by using management practices that improve soil health and increase productivity and profitability immediately and into the future. A fully functioning soil produces the maximum amount of products at the least cost. Maximizing soil health is essential ...

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There is nothing quite like a sojourn in the African bush. One day in the bush is worth 10 on the beach! But whilst out enjoying these wonders how do campers, caravaners, and self-caters administer ...

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A bee colony is a highly organised society and behaves with such intricate co-operation and selflessness. Bees literally live for the hive, ...

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Since 2010 we've been ramping up our solutions to recycling food waste. In 2010 we started selling bokashi buckets. Today we manufacturer a variety of composting machines which can scale to industrial ...

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Food waste and wastage reduction is an environmental good. It helps saves water, arable land, and greenhouse gas emissions. And it will also save you money!

We often come across people who say “I don’t have any food waste”. We don’t argue, but secretly think: ...

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Biochar is a climate positive solution to waste biomass. Biochar is a way of holding carbon in the soil where it (a) provides structure to sandy ...

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Oh the Jo'burg winter. When it's 26 degrees in the sun and 10 degrees, one meter away, in the shade. It's a time to chill. A time to sleep. ...

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We were sitting in our garden the other evening - enjoying a glass of great South African wine - looking at our garden.

Karen has done the most amazing job. Even in Winter we've had blooms all around. And have a vibrant colony (two hives) of bees, butterflies and - for the first time - have noticed some nectar feeding ...

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Building environmental solutions into your business is not only about being “green”, it’s also about making your business resilient to labour ...

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The United Nations declared 2015 The Year of Soil - strange. Should it not be The Year of Air or Water. Even, perhaps, Food. These ...

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