Green Drinks
Green Drinks is an informal monthly opportunity for greenies to meet, chat and network. It’s a self-organising network and there are no fees, so make sure to spread the word. Green Drinks is now active in 542 cities worldwide.
Upcoming Green Drinks:
Cape Town
Date: Wednesday, 1 September 2010
Time: 6.30pm – 8pm(ish)
Venue: Health Path, 41 Victoria Road
The Hout Bay Green Drinks group meets on the first Wednesday of every month. These are well attended, interesting and fun evenings. Not just for greenies, but anyone interested in building resilient communities for the great waves of change coming. September’s Green Drinks evening will take place at the Health Path – this is also the new location of the Green Living Shop. Go to www.greenliving.co.za to join their mailing list and receive notice of the topic for the month and a reminder before each event.
Johannesburg
Date: Thursday, 2 September 2010
Time: 6.30pm
Venue: Il Gardino Restaurant, 44 Stanley Avenue, Milpark
This Green Drinks group will meet on the first Thursday of every month at this venue. A table is set aside for the Green Drinks, so please ask for the Green Drinkers on arrival.
For more information, please visit http://www.greendrinks.org/.
PET Plastic Recycling Company (PETCO) is hosting a workshop
Cheri Scholtz, CEO of the PET Plastic Recycling Company (PETCO), is pleased to invite you to the next PETCO MemberWorkshop, specifically designed to be both useful to your business and of benefit to your employees. These workshops will help to make your business more efficient and ensure that you are up-to-date with the latest offerings from government and the private sector.
The next workshop will focus on Greening guidelines for hosting sustainable events in South Africa.
Programme
09h45: Arrival and Registration
10h00: Introductions, Context and PETCO Update
10h30: The Greening of Major Events
11h45 Discussion
13h00: Lunch and Networking
Speakers
Grace Stead, Event Greening Forum,Western Cape
Justin Hawes, Event Greening Forum, Gauteng
Date: Friday 10 September: JOHANNESBURG
Time: 10h00 – 13h00 (including lunch)
Venue: Pick ‘n Pay Conference Centre, 2 Allum Road, Kensington, Johannesburg
RSVP Lynn Du Plessis: lynn.duplessis@petco.co.za or membership@petco.co.za. Please indicate dietary preferences.
Clean-up SA week
Clean-up SA week runs from the 13 to 18 September, which aims to increase awareness of the social, environmental and economic beneftis of recycling.
Look at the Cleanup Diary to see if there are initiatives near you, so you can join in:
Saving energy
Maybe this will make you think….
Click on Athlone Towers Implosion to view the video – pass the message on
Good bye to the "Old Ladies"
Smart Events Handbook
The City of Cape Town has recently produced a Smart Events Handbook to guide event organisers, venues and suppliers in planning and implementing events in a sustainable and responsible manner. The handbook was compiled by Grace Stead and Karin Diederichs with the input of various industry role-players.
Says Alderman Marian Nieuwoudt, Mayoral Committee Member for Planning and Environment: “This user-friendly handbook aims to promote resource efficiency and sustainability in every organised event in the City of Cape Town”. [Read on...]
Event Greening Training in Gauteng
The Event Greening Forum will be hosting some training on 31 August (Tshwane) and 2 September (Johannesburg). The training is aimed at professionals within the events and exhibition industry who have an interest in incorporating green principles in their line of work. This broadly includes; event organisers, venues, suppliers and sub-contractors ranging from students to experienced industry role-players. [Read on...]
Natural and Organic Show
The Natural and Organics Products Exhibition features over 150 exhibitors, showcasing the very best in specialist health foods, refreshments, beauty products, supplements and natural health care products and a green home display that incorporates architecture, cleaning products, organic gardening, green décor and sustainable and renewable energy technologies.
[Read on...]
Woolworths Head Office Bans Bottled Water
Dear Colleagues
As more and more information on climate change and water scarcity becomes available, it gets harder and harder to ignore the call to make small but important changes to our lifestyles.
SAACI National Conference 2010
The Southern African Association for the Conference Industry (SAACI) will be hosting their 2010 National Conference at the Durban ICC from the 14 to 17 August, which is expected to attract around 300 delegates.
What’s especially exciting about this year’s conference is the inclusion of climate change and green issues in the topics to be discussed, on 17 August. Dr. Debra Roberts, Justin Hawes and Mr. Rashid Toefy will speak on this topic, with a focus on “How can we make a difference in South Africa and what can we learn from the international business tourism sector”.
An open discussion will follow, where questions will be posed and delegates can respond instantly with hand held digi votes.
For more details about this conference please visit www.saaciconf2010.co.za.
FEDHASA Imvelo Award Nomination Deadline
FEDHASA, the Federated Hospitality Association of Southern Africa, initiated the Imvelo Awards for Responsible Tourism in 2002.
Responsible Tourism Guidelines are used as a basis for judging entrants, who vary from privately owned to large corporate hospitality and tourism establishments.
Nominations for this years awards are now open, until the 30 July. For more on how to enter please visit www.imveloawards.co.za/enter.html or contact Lynda Bacon on 011 467 5009.
The 2010 awards ceremony is to be held in Johannesburg on 10 November.
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