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Explore Cape Town's green spaces, nature reserves, organic eateries, farmers' markets, recycling drop-offs, sustainable living projects, eco products and other green choices by clicking the map's icons.
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How green is your fleet?

The City of Cape Town, through its Air Quality Managment Plan (AQMP), aims to be "the city with the cleanest air in Africa" and underpinning this plan are eleven key aims, one of which is the control of vehicle emissions.

Brown haze

The brown haze that appears on certain windless winter days when a temperature inversion layer traps pollutants has become a depressingly familiar sight.

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World Wetlands Day
February 2nd marks the celebration of World Wetlands Day, the date of the signing of the Ramsar Convention on Wetlands in 1971. It is so named as it took place in the Iranian city of Ramsar on the shores of the Caspian Sea. The convention is an intergovernmental treaty that provides the framework for national action and international cooperation for the conservation and wise use of wetlands and their resources.
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Cape Town's Blue Flag Beaches

With the recent suspension of Big Bay's Blue Flag status we thought we'd take a closer look at what all the fuss is about a Blue Flag Beach.

What is a Blue Flag beach?

The Blue Flag is a voluntary eco-label awarded to over 3450 beaches and marinas in 41 countries across Europe, South Africa, Morocco, Tunisia, New Zealand, Brazil, Canada and the Caribbean.

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Earth science consultancy goes green

Consultancies in the environmental or earth science fields provide services that are often used to minimise the impact on the environment for new developments. But how much consideration is given to the fact that these companies activities have an ecological footprint themselves?

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Green Building

Practice of increasing the efficiency of buildings and their use of energy, water, and materials while reducing building impacts on health and the environment throughout the complete building life cycle by incorporating better siting, design, construction, systems, operation, maintenance and removal.

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Green tip

Use both sides of all your paper before chucking it out

You’ll remember this one from when you were a kid. Every piece of paper has two sides and I reckon less than a tenth of what we print out at work is so important that it needs to be on fresh paper. Get into the habit of drawing a single red line through a page once you’ve finished with it and popping it in a used paper tray on your desk.
 

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Leo Mews - affordable, greener living

Until recently it has been nearly impossible for a South African household earning below R10 000 to buy a home of their own, let alone a home that is friendlier for the environment and the owners' pockets. The City of Cape Town, in partnership with Standard Bank and Bitol Developments, recently won a South African Housing Foundation Merit Award for its new "gap" housing project called Leo Mews situated in Leonsdale, Elsies River.

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New City Forum helps buildings save energy

Energy efficiency has become increasingly important to property owners because of rising electricity tariffs and the medium-term shortage of South Africa’s electricity supply. The economic recession, forthcoming legislation and the need to reduce our carbon emissions all add up to the need for a concerted effort to find solutions to improve energy efficiency – particularly large energy users.

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