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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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Western Cape filling up the landfills

The Western Cape has estimated that it has five years of landfill space left. This was the message delivered by MEC Anton Bredell at the Waste Minimisation Summit last week. The City's waste generation however continues to grow at an average of about 7 percent a year, the provincial Department of Environmental Affairs and Development Planning has warned.

FoodTent solution to school feeding crisis

In response to an ever increasing feeding crisis in schools with feeding schemes, which often battle to source and secure supplies of nutritious food, the City’s Environmental Resource Management Department’s Youth Environmental School (YES) team took on this challenge.

Cape Town assesses the future of its coastline

Most of us have heard that the sea level is rising and with a huge chunk of ice the size of Luxembourg breaking away from the Antarctica last week, its not surprising that the people of Cape Town should be concerned about rising sea levels.

Educating the future

Students from 14 schools in the Metropole Central Education District are involved in a one year project which is aimed at educating children about water, waste management, energy efficiency and re-cycling.

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Garden

Gardens that are maintained by public agencies or organisations instead of the community. Public gardens may be large or small, indoors or outdoors.
You can indicate types of species in the garden, pesticide use or entrance fees.

Green tip

Embrace flexitime

The trade-off with many green initiatives is flexibility. Eating healthy food, cycling to work or refusing to drink boiled water all have as their price the necessity to be a little more organised in your day-to-day planning. You can help your employees lead a richer, greener life by allowing them sub-stantial flexibility in their office hours. The companies who do this usually require attendance during a core time from 9 to about 3, but outside that period, workers are welcome to come in as early or stay as late as suits them.

Ancient trees, lush green lawns across which squirrels are scampering, pigeons are squabbling. Add to this beautiful ponds and water lilies, and you have a rich, diverse garden - in the middle of a big city? Yes. The Company's Garden is one of South Africa’s oldest pieces of cultivated land. Jan van Rieebeck founded the garden on the instructions of the Dutch East India Company to create a food garden to supply passing ships. Today the garden is located in the middle of Cape Town's CBD.

As more of us become aware of the advantages of planting indigenous species (or even better locally indigenous) in our gardens, we also need to understand and care for the creatures that join us in our gardens. Many are wrongly perceived as problems or pests and sometimes killed, but armed with a bit of knowledge we learn that most are allies that need to be protected.