Sustainability is a journey, not a destination. We are keen to share our knowledge and provide support where possible.
Here are some resources we found useful:
- City of Cape Town’s Smart Living Campaign
- Smart Living Handbook
- Smart Events Handbook
- Smart Building Handbook
- Smart Driving
- Smart Office Toolkit
- Gauteng Green Events Guideline
- GRI Event Sector Supplement
- Climate Reality Project
- The Story of Stuff, and much more
PEOPLE POWER
These are some of the small teams doing GREAT stuff who we work with:
- Carbon Calculated
- Derrick Advertising
- GCX – Global Carbon Exchange
- Green Box Education
- Green Talent
- Learn to Lead
- Natural Wonder
- Next Generation
- Meshfield
- Sustain Our Africa
- WrapZERO
FAVOURITE LINKS
Here are some of our favourite links:
- Enviropaedia www.enviropaedia.com
- Event Greening Forum www.eventgreening.co.za
- Ethical Co-op www.ethical.org.za
- Fairtrade in Tourism www.fairtourismsa.org.za
- FLOW – For Love of Water www.forloveofwater.co.za
- Full Cycle www.fullcycle.co.za
- Global Reporting Initiative www.globalreporting.org
- GBCSA – Green Building Council of SA www.gbcsa.org.za
- Green Home www.greenhome.co.za
- Green Meeting Industry Council www.greenmeetings.info
- Greenspace www.greenspace.co.za
- Green Talent www.greentalent.co.za
- GreenX www.greenxenergy.com
- Harvest of Hope www.harvestofhope.co.za
- ICLEI Africa www.iclei.org/africa
- Renewable Energy and Climate Change www.climatechange.org.za
- SASSI Guide www.wwf.org.za/sassi
- Seven Star Events www.sevenstarevents.com
- Sustainable Living www.sustainableliving.co.za
- WastePlan www.wasteplan.co.za
- WrapZERO www.wrapzero.co.za
CARBON CALCULATORS
Food and Trees for Africa is our first choice as it is home grown!
- African Climate Reality Project http://climatereality.co.za/
- Atmosfair www.atmosfair.de (very easy for calculating international flights)
- BP Carbon Calculator www.bp.com (adapted to SA emissions factors)
- Carbon Protocol http://carbonprotocol.org/
- Choose Climate www.chooseclimate.org
- Cleaner Climate www.cleanerclimate.co.za
- Climate Care www.climatecare.org
- Food and Trees for Africa www.trees.co.za (home grown, and growing at home)
- Sustainable Travel International www.sustainabletravelinternational.org
- The Carbon Neutral Company www.carbonneutral.com
BEFORE YOU GO…
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