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KwaNzira Urban Farming

KwaNzira Urban Farming exists to provide households, schools, businesses and other organisations in Southern Africa with skills in sustainable living, water management and organic food and medicine production.

"We envision a healthy and...


TYRED Sustainable Lifestyle Furniture

By taking used and old tyres, we create custom designed chairs, ottomans and tables that can be used indoors and outdoors. We use various materials from foam and leather to canvas and wood, meaning each piece of furniture can be made to your...


Kwiksol

There are very few companies in South Africa that can boast that they have been in existence for over 100 years. Kwikot, the market leaders and market innovators in domestic and industrial hot water storage systems, was established in 1903 and...


Tierra Construction Projects

Tierra Construction Projects services the greater construction industry by offering alternative building construction and training, green building consulting and general quantity surveying services.

Using a combination of recyclable...


Imagine Durban

Imagine Durban is a council-led project on integrated, long-term planning. It is being implemented in conjunction with Sustainable Cities, an NGO from Vancouver, Canada and the PLUS Network (a network of 35 cities sharing experiences in...


Origin Festival

Origin is an Electronic Music & Psychedelic Art Festival based on Conscious Party Ethics based in a breathtaking mountain valley near the tip of Africa.

Origin features varying styles of electronic and world dance music, with top...


Makana Meadery

Makana Meadery has its beginnings in a Rhodes University based research project to develop state of the art fermentation technology for producing iQhilika, an African mead. The meadery is housed in a historical Grahamstown landmark on the...


save it! The National Energy Efficiency Campaign

South Africa remains one of the world’s least energy efficient nations. We use approximately 40% of Africa’s electricity, and are the 11th highest emitter of greenhouse gasses in the world. Our national addiction to energy has led to the...


Jason's Garden

Jason's Garden is a virtual meeting place for like-minded lovers of our natural earth. This space is about growth and sustainability, and what better space than a garden to share our common vision?

Working with the earth and her systems,...


A Rocha South Africa

A Rocha is a Christian nature conservation organisation, our name coming from the Portuguese for “the Rock,” as the first initiative was a field study centre in Portugal. A Rocha projects are frequently cross-cultural in character, and share...