24 July 2024 The City achieved one of its top priorities, to combat water pollution during the 2023/2024 financial year, by installing eight waste interceptors in rivers and waterways across the city. The interceptors were installed using cost-effective methods, to trap litter and prevent waste, protecting the ecosystem. The Water and Sanitation, Catchment Stormwater and…
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When it comes to power, solar is about to leave nuclear and everything else in the shade
Peter Martin – 2 July 2024 Opposition leader Peter Dutton might have been hoping for an endorsement from economists for his plan to take Australian nuclear. He shouldn’t expect one from The Economist. The Economist is a British weekly news magazine that has reported on economic thinking and served as a place for economists to exchange views…
‘All of Our Tricks Worked’: Spoof ExxonMobil Ad Nails Just How Easy It’s Been for Big Oil
Climate activists protest outside the New York State Supreme Court building during the Exxon trial on October 22, 2019 in New York City. (Photo: Angela Weiss/AFP via Getty Images) Brett Wilkins – 9 July 2024 “Do you have any idea how easy it is to get you off our backs with a little bullsh*t about…
Mancomm Meeting
Reminder that our next Mancomm meeting will be held on Tuesday 30 July 2024 at the Observatory Community Centre at 18:00. Zoom invitations are available on request to [email protected] Mancomm meeting Date: Tue 30 July 2024 Time: 18h00 Venue: Observatory Community Centre (room 1) or via Zoom (upon request) To attend our Mancomm meetings online,…
Friends of the Liesbeek 2024 AGM
Loaves and Fishes in Observatory
Have you heard of Loaves and Fishes? It is a second phase shelter in Observatory. They are in dire financial straits at the moment as the Department of Social Services have not paid the 3 month stipend to them (they get a small amount of money for each resident from the DSS). Apparently this was…
Cold reality – many of us are closer to living on the street than we think
Inus Gouws at his shelter on the corner of Strand & Buitengracht Street in the Cape Town, 17 July 2024. Inus & others in encampments around the CBD will be forced to move at the end of the month when a City of Cape Town eviction court order takes effect. (Photo: David Harrison) Tamsin Metelerkamp…
The escalating problem of electronic waste — and how to deal with it
The world is drowning in millions of tonnes of electronic stuff we chuck away. (Photo: Global Report on e-waste) Don Pinnock – 17 July 2024 Where do your old smartphones, laptops, washing machines, digital cameras, refrigerators and external hard drives go when they give up the ghost? We should recycle, but mostly we don’t. Your…
CHASING ADAM GOES CONTINENTAL
Written by Online Ed on July 3, 2024 Adam Jacobs is a 22-year-old Capetonian who has established the ‘Chasing Adam’ brand. An avid cyclist, Jacobs is known for his social media messaging to ‘get out there and get moving’ and on 6 July, at 10:00, outside of Rook Cycles in Bree Street, Cape Town, Jacobs…
Chasing Adam
Hey YOU! What a pleasure to have you here! My name is Adam Jacobs. I’m from Cape town, South Africa. I love eating apples and chasing sunsets but I have something far more interesting to share with YOU. I am cycling around the African continent in 2024. Well to put it a bit better I’ll…