Cape Town Green Map's blog

Cape Town has become the first city in Africa to officially endorse one meat-free day a week. The city may be the second city in the world to have officially endorsed a meat-free day a week, following on the heels of Ghent, in Belgium.

The second edition of the Cape Town Green Map, due to be printed next month, will be printed on Sappi's Triple Green environmentally friendly paper. Triple Green is a range of high quality coated fine paper and tissue wadding products.

When you are new to a city, you want to get around and explore it. Public transport is a means of doing this, and metered taxis are one of the most convenient ways of doing so. On the 11th of March, the City of Cape Town launched its first eco-friendly driven taxis.

On Wednesday, the City of Cape Town announced its plans to start selling Green electricity, which is produced at the Darling Wind Farm on the West Coast.

pic: John Maarschalk

The City of Cape Town will again be supporting the annual ‘Earth Hour’ initiative in 2010. Millions around the world will turn off their lights for an hour at 20:30 on Saturday 27 March 2010 to raise awareness and show support for climate change action.

pic: Jennnyfer

Water - life on Earth could not exist without it. All living things need water, and the human body is made up of about 60% water, and it is also one of the most abundant substances on our planet, giving rise to the term "the Blue Planet".

This week is Water week in South Africa and the UN World Water day is on Monday 22 March.

Sustainability is becoming part of ‘business as usual’ in many large companies and nowhere is this more evident than in Cape Town, according to Accelerate Cape Town CEO Guy Lundy. A group of sustainability leaders from some of the largest organisations in the Cape gathered on Thursday, 26 November - brought together as an initiative of Accelerate Cape Town - to connect with each other, share common experiences in the sustainability arena, and to draft a plan of action to achieve jointly-held sustainability goals.

Well, the Cape Argus Pick ‘n Pay Cycle Tour is over for another year, and Lance Armstrong did not win it, instead hanging back and supposedly supporting his partner Daryl Impy into third place. Nice of him to give his teammate a chance to shine.

pic: Suretha & Cliff Dorse

After looking at Snakes in Part 1 we take a look at some other reptiles found in the Cape Town garden - the lizards.

Lizards are a large group of reptiles comprising over 3800 species and found on all continents except, not surprisingly, Antartica.

Lance Armstrong, legendary cyclist and inspirational cancer survivor, who went on to win the Tour de France seven times, is in South Africa and is going to take part in the Argus cycle tour on Sunday.

Armstrong has also headlined a series of speaking events over the last few days, one of which was a group of youngsters in Mitchells Plain, to whom he spoke about how his love of cycling drove his success.