A quote from Carol says it all “Wow. If you don’t have a dream, how are you going to have a dream come true…” We’re looking for low cost, green building options for rebuilding the Yiza Ekhaya soup kitchen. The structure needs to be rebuilt to accommodate the number of people she is helping and…
The inaugural Book Dash was held at the Cape Town Library on 28 June 2014. The purpose of this project is to create open licensed children’s books, to allow them to be affordably and easily distributed. Books are an expensive luxury to an individual earning minimum wage and not enough South African children have access to…
GreenHome attended the Western Cape 110% green Mandela Day program held at Spier. We received an Invitation letter from Helen Zille. We are taking part in the Western Cape’s 110% Green Initiative, which calls for local businesses to link green to the economy. Our 67 minutes were donated to Tree-preneurs. This project gives people in…
GreenHome sponsored gift bags to The Sunflower Fund Golf Day. The Golf Day is one of the events they hold in order to raise funds for this important NGO. The Sunflower Fund “educates, recruits and raises funds to build and sustain an effective SABMR (South African Bone Marrow Registry) as a source of well informed…
The upcoming season of the Ultimate Braai Master 3 features GreenHome’s biodegradable plates and bioplastic cutlery. It is due to be screened on SABC2 in September 2013. The outdoor braai season is a huge part of South African culture. Because it so often happens outdoors somewhere, disposable plates and plastic knives and forks make an obvious…
GreenHome sponsored TedxCapeTown with our biodegradable cups made from PLA cornstarch for their water stations. The cups were collected after the event and composted. Our 100% biodegradable food packaging allows people to meet, eat and drink in any location (something, they sure love to do). They can do so knowing that the utensils and disposables…
GreenHome featured in the Swaziland Times for supplying the MTN Bushfire Festival in Swaziland with biodegradable food containers and cutlery. This was a 100% Green Festival where they only allowed compostables at the stalls. There were green waste bins around the festival which collected all the food and other compostable waste and composted it after…
Over 100 people walked to Rocking The Daisies this year and Green Home sponsored them with our biodegradable food packaging as shown in the above photo of the walkers eating potjie off our biodegradable plates around the camp fire.Walking the Daisies is an annual environmental awareness campaign in the form of a 2 day hike…
