July 2017 saw us joining the global Plastic Free July campaign with over a million people from 159 countries. The #PlasticFreeJuly challenge is simple: refuse all single use plastic for the month of July. But actually doing it? Not so simple. When you try to live without single use plastic you quickly realize how deeply…
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…
GREEN HOME sponsored the 213th Street Store with our Newspaper gift bags. These bags are the last of a range we made as a part of an upcycling job creation project. Street Store is a street based, pop up “shop” for the poor stocked by public donations and organised by anyone who wants…
Espinaca Innovations in Khayelitsha is a Green bakery supplying super healthy and green (yes literally) baked goods. Have you tried their delicious spinach bread or muffins yet? We met Lufefe Nomjana when he started buying our PLA bags to package his bread. We were so impressed by his mission to provide nutritious and affordable daily…
Its time for an update on the ladies at the Yiza Ekhaya project. Winter has been a busy time for them, feeding 160 children and adults on medication and offering them a safe place to be when their parents are at work. At the beginning of the month, one of Mikey’s funders pulled out, leaving…
plastic bag pollution From the 3 July 2014, International plastic bag free day, Greyton aims to become South Africa’s first town to phase out single use plastic shopping bags. This is a drive initiated by Greyton Transition Town (GTT) and is supported and assisted by Hayley McLellan from Rethink the Bag. This is just one of…
