According to a new study led by a University of British Columbia researcher who examined the stomach contents of beached northern fulmar, marine plastic pollution is on the rise with plastic pollution in the Northwest Pacific where the study was conducted reaching the levels of the notoriously polluted North Sea.Northern fulmar forage exclusively at sea…
Letter from Mariam and Zakiyya of the African Centre for Biosafety: We write to share with you the grave and shocking news that the GMO decision making body has given the green light for the importation of Dow Chemical’s highly controversial 2,4-D tolerant GM maize (variety DAS 40278-9) into South Africa, where it will be…
Morgan Cromberge, our very first GreenHome employee, has sadly left us for the wonderful new world of motherhood. Morgan started with GreenHome in 2008 and has been an integral part of the visualisation and actualisation processes that have made GreenHome what it is today. She has seen us grow out of Catherine’s garage into various…
June is National Environment Month in South Africa. We celebrate World Environment Day (5th), World Oceans Day (8th), World Day to Combat Desertification (17th) with the Rio+20 sustainability summit taking place from 20 – 22 June. The World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) recently released its bi-annual ‘Living Planet’ Report which takes a look at…
Despite a global outcry over genetically modified (GM) crops, South Africa continues to be a dumping ground for GM crops (and their products) which periodically cripple small scale farmers ability to survive, give big pharmaceutical companies even greater control of our food diversity and have potential health implications which are still unknown due to lack…
Plastic is everywhere: our oceans, our beaches, our forests, our deserts, our cities, our homes and our bodies. Anywhere you go, you are bound to bump into a piece of plastic. Contrary to what the plastics industry would like us to believe, science continues to prove that endocrine disrupting chemicals used in the production process…
Our oceans have become our ‘landfills’. They are known to contain the majority of mankind’s waste, and the largest component of oceanic pollution is disposable plastic. Conservative estimates suggest that there are 140 billion kilograms of plastic in the ocean. The well documented Great Pacific Garbage Patch is just one of 5 such ‘gyres’ where…
