18 July is Mandela day. Everyone is invited to donate 67 minutes of their time to give back to the community. The 67 minutes represent the 67 years that Nelson Mandela sacrificed to improve the lives of others. The GREEN HOME team spent Madiba Day preparing and delivering sandwiches to the Yiza Ekhaya Soup Kitchen,…
The RMR Makana Green Fun Run took place on Sunday 1 May 2016 This year they made use of biodegradable cups. We stock single walled cups which are perfect for serving cold drinks at events. The cups are made locally from FSC certified sustainable paper which has been lined with a thin layer of corn…
The land that was used to rebuild Yiza Ekhaya Soup Kitchen was previously a productive veggie garden. We rebuilt Yiza Ekhaya with a flat roof on which to establish a vegetable garden. But Mickey has greater plans, she has spoken to all her neighbours about a vacant plot of land adjacent to Yiza Ekhaya. With…
The Sixth Annual Gogolympics was hosted by the Hillcrest AIDS Centre Trust on Friday 22 April 2016. We were thrilled to be able to support them by sponsoring bagasse bowls for breakfast time. The grandmothers started the day with a bowl of porridge. Hillcrest AIDS Centre Trust has 51 Gogo Support Groups operating across ten…
Look how Top Billing does beach picnics. They use GREEN HOME’s biodegradable and compostable disposable plates and cutlery and bleach free, sustainable serviettes and serve up some seriously creative picnic food. This is a serious picnic, and it’s sustainable too!
GREEN HOME was invited to participate in a Social and Environmental Entrepreneurship Day (SEED) held at Wynberg Boys’ High School. The aim of the day was to expose the boys to less “mainstream jobs” and to the idea of finding work in fields where they can have a positive impact on the environment. Our MD,…
GREEN HOME’s founder and MD, Catherine Morris, spoke at the 2015 Trash Trek Challenge held in Cape Town. This is a international challenge for children from the ages of 9 – 16 to look at all the issues around waste and come up with solutions in various different ways. There were a wide range of…
GREEN HOME helped Reliance Compost welcome the Walking the Daisies walkers and riders with beers and hotdogs served in our wooden boats – a perfect environmentally-friendly, disposable and compostable way to serve a hotdog. Walking the Daisies is an initiative that has been running for a number of years; a group of people can apply…
