Cape Town Green Map's blog

“Touch the earth lightly” is the message that is being conveyed to FIFA Fan Fest™ visitors on the Grand Parade throughout the 2010 FIFA World Cup™.

Recently Daryl Hannah joined Sir Ranulph Fiennes at London Zoo to launch the results of  an Airbus survey exploring children's perceptions of nature. The actress and environmentalist announced the results of the  “Airbus Bio-Index” – a survey of more than 10,000 children and young people aged 5-18  from ten countries worldwide, conducted as part of the aircraft manufacturer's work supportive of the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD).

Chad Peterson is an industrial design student from the Cape Peninsula University of Technology and runner-up in the SABS Design Institute’s Design Achievers award.

If you are from Asia, then you have probably come across mig33. It is similar in function to mobile social networking site, MXit, which is  popular here in South Africa. They have come up with an innovative idea to raise some funds for the United Nations Environmental Programme.

We are excited to launch our second print edition of the Cape Town Green Map today, ahead of 5 June, World Environment day. With this virtual launch we reduce our carbon footprint and cut down on emissions from travel to and from a venue, long winded speeches, waste, and a myriad other aspects of an event that contribute to CO2 production.

Wendy Brawer, Green Map System, and Philip Todres

Wendy Brawer, founder of Green Map System, the global NGO that has facilitated green maps in over 60 countries around the world, received her copy of the second edition of the Cape Town Green Map in New York yesterday.

What is the strange, snake-like object being blown on the front cover of the second print edition of the Cape Town Green Map you may be wondering?
 

This is the day the United Nations chooses to focus peoples attention on the issue of the environment. The environment is getting more coverage in the main stream, but surely we need to focus on the environment each and every day?

The Cape Town Green Map website makes use of a series of award-winning icons designed by the Green Map system which is 15 years old this year.
 

Some of the members of South Africa's poorest communities will be able to watch the World cup matches without the threat of power cuts. The Football for Hope Centre in Khayelitsha, has become the first community in Southern Africa to have Sun-TV.