Heavy rain on 9 July 2024 caused flooding in parts of Cape Town. Picture: @CityofCT/X By Keely Goodall, 10 July 2024 Thousands of people affected by floods in the Western Cape need urgent assistance. Lester Kiewit speaks with Peter J. Heeger, Interim Chief Executive Officer at the Community Chest. Listen to the interview in the…
W Cape flood: Primedia Cares, Feed the Nation Foundation, Pick n Pay calls for donations
W Cape flood: Primedia Cares, Feed the Nation Foundation, Pick n Pay calls for donations Shopping, trolley / Pixabay: Alexas_Fotos 1080840 1280 By Amy Fraser, 10 July 2024 Here’s how you can help. To assist the thousands of Western Cape residents affected by life-threatening floods, Pick n Pay is urging the public to donate. Donating…
Have YOU heard of Avaaz?
If you think all hope is lost, think again. This weekend, everyone expected the extreme right to win in France. Millions of people had other ideas. They voted. In droves! And they beat the far right’s hate and division. Into third place. It’s unbelievable! And it’s not just in France. In the biggest election year…
Scaling up school meals
Wawira Njiru, the founder of Food4Education, at the Food4Education Giga Kitchen in Industrial area, Nairobi, Kenya, on Oct. 18, 2023.Edwin Ndeke—Guardian/eyevine/Redux BY VARSHA BANSAL – MAY 30, 2024 7:41 AM EDT What started out 12 years ago as an ad hoc way to feed 25 schoolchildren in a town outside of Nairobi is now Africa’s…
Retrofitting homes and neighbourhoods helps us “embrace the wholesale reimagination of how we live together”, says Civic Square’s Immy Kaur
The Alternative – 4 July 2024 Above is a new film from Civic Square and Immy Kaur – our great comrades in so much cosmolocalism – centring on their #RetrofitReimagined festival last autumn. It’s full of instances and ideas around making the “retrofit” of our homes and neighbourhoods an attractive and convivial prospect. Here’s the blurb… READ MORE
Public luxury for the everyday citizens of Mexico City—with “100 Utopias” being built by new Mayor Clara Brugada
The Alternative – 6 July 2024 Extraordinary tweet from David Madden profiling the built “utopias” of Mexico City, Details below: The Utopías created by Mexico City’s borough of Iztapalapa are a brilliant example of collective amenity and a public infrastructure of care—and the most inspiring ongoing municipal project with which I‘m familiar. Every city should be…
Starke Ayres – what to do in July
Winter has tightened its grip and even the plants are feeling the chill. Although the selection of bedding flowers and vegetables is wide, we will have to wait a while for the weather to warm up before we reap the benefits of everything we plant now. Don’t let that deter you though. Plant cabbage, lettuce,…
Cape weather not ‘strange’ for winter, extreme variability of weather is – Meteorologist
Picture: Warongdech Thaiwatcharamas/ 123rf.com By Tasleem Gierdien, 10 July 2024 One reason for that ‘extreme variability’ of weather in the Cape is climate change, says meteorologist, Roelof Burger. Clarence Ford speaks to Professor Roelof Burger, Meteorologist at North West University… READ MORE
