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Here’s a nicely organised tour through the world of your average toxic household provided by http://www.groundwork.org.za. It’s amazing all the things we do as individuals to poison our environments without even knowing. There are many, many hidden chemicals in our homes. Some of these chemicals are safe but many of them are toxic (poisonous) to […]

I just took the eco-footprint quiz I found on the website below http://www.earthday.net/footprint/index.asp I was shocked to find out that if everyone lived the way I do we would need 2.2 earths to sustain all of us. What’s even more shocking is that here in South Africa the average eco-footprint is 4.3 global hectares per […]

Have you ever been approached by someone: on the street; at your front door; in the parking lot; at the traffic lights asking for assistance, a job or sometimes food or money.Don’t answer the question, I expect your answer to be yes unless you’ve been living totally cut off from whatever society you happen to […]

It should be hard to disregard water, to waste it and fail to appreciate it. Eighty percent of every human body is water. We cannot live for more than one week without it. We know that there is no life on earth without it. Water flows throughout the world’s cornucopia of human societies, and as […]