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Going Green
not as Easy as it Seems
Years ago, you began to support the recycling skip at the local school, washing your plastics,
separating the glass. When water shortages hit Cape Town, you installed a “grey water” system
so the laundry water kept your herb garden thriving. Now, power outages mean you’ve adjusted
your geyser, and with oil at $100 plus per barrel, you’ve polished your bicycle and pumped up
the tyres.
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1. How to Turn Your Parents Green
2. Diary of a Reluctant Green: Can You Save the Planet and Have a Life?
3. The Internet Shoppers’ Guide to Going Green
4. Going Green: A Wise Consumer’s Guide to a Shrinking Planet
5. The Science of Survival: Your Planet Needs You! A Kid’s Guide to
Going Green
CAPE TOWN BOOK FAIR PROGRAMME 2008
You are committed: determined to reduce your carbon footprint, ready to “go
green,” all the way. You want to save the earth and so you went looking for a
book - a South African book, preferably - that would guide you on what else you
can do to save the earth.
Because you won’t make unnecessary trips in the car, you begin your research
online and plug “green South Africa” into the search engine.
The fi rst organisation claims to be a green search engine for South Africa:
“Resource platform directory for information, products, services, consultants,
contractors, institutions and magazines for the entire green industry…” How
hard can this be? Click on ‘information’, click on ‘books’. Oops - last updated
in 2003.
Go to the next entry at the search engine site: Green Clippings Environmental
News, which boasts “the most widely read environmental news service in
Southern Africa with almost 2000 articles online. Our news analyses are read
by more than 50 000 people every month, including government, business, the
media, NGOs, academics and the general public.”