The team

City of Cape Town - Environmental Resource Management Department

The Environmental Resource Management Department (ERMD) is tasked with leading the implementation of the City's Integrated Metropolitan Environmental Policy (IMEP).

This forms the framework for a series of strategies and programmes aimed at ensuring that the principles of environmental sustainability are adhered to. The five lead strategies are: Biodiversity, Energy and Climate Change, Coastal Zone Management, Cultural Heritage and Environmental Education and Training.

Working in close collaboration with other City departments and key stakeholders, the ERM Department focuses on key areas such as biodiversity management, environmental and heritage management, environmental management systems, environmental information systems, environmental strategy and partnerships, environmental capacity building, sustainable livelihoods and communications, and resource conservation.

urban sprout

urban sprout exposes the impact of consumptive, carbon-intensive lifestyles and outlines simple ways in which we can change for the better. The award-winning green blog highlights sustainable alternatives in a directory full of eco-friendly and organic options. Read about: renewable energy, climate change, organic food, genetic modification (GM), sustainable building, recycling, peak oil, ethical money systems, fairtrade, consumer activism, and permaculture.

A&C maps

Started just over 20 years ago, The Arts & Crafts Map focused on the vibrant creative arts field and showed people how to find galleries and museums in and around Cape Town.  The Arts & Crafts Map has been published each year since 1989 and to this has been added the annual publication of the Food Map, Antiques, Collectables & Africana Map, the Pink Map, and our 'Not the official guide to Cape Town'.  A ‘travel into history’ series of maps for Gauteng followed, and this year the Darwin Trail will be established to mark Charles Darwin’s journey to the Cape in 1836 aboard the HMS Beagle.  A range of special fields of interest have been added over  the years and a Cape Town Kids Map and Design Map are scheduled for this year. Together with urban sprout work had started on publishing a Green Map, which evolved into working with the City of Cape Town in establishing the Cape Town Green Map.

Contact us at info@capetowngreenmap.co.za