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Summer 2007

Affordable housing on the horizon

BRIGHT SPARK 4 Middle income earners have fallen through the cracks in the property market as house prices rocket, but there is light at the end of the tunnel thanks to Soula Proxenos’ ability to lobby on South Africa’s behalf.

Putting the environment on the diary

BRIGHT SPARK 3 More than 800 schools around South Africa have over the last four years received a lively injection of environmental information thanks to an initiative known as the Environment Diary.

Putting

Brenda Nkuna

Small towns big challenges

BRIGHT SPARK 2 By 2050 three quarters of the world will be living in cities unless we follow the lead of the imaginative few who are looking at different ways of living in rural or peri-urban areas.

Small

Stefan Reubenheimer

Bright sparks - off the grid farm 215

BRIGHT SPARK 1 Maarten Groos and Henkie le Roux don’t just preach about sustainability – they live it passionately everyday.

Bright

Sheryl Ozinsky

Beware the greenies are here

As conservation goes mainstream, we’re in danger of being hooked by a new breed of adaptable capitalists now pushing the ‘green’ cause.

Beware

Lin Sampson

Do we live in an over-packaged world?

In a world where packaging is ubiquitous but contributes significantly to pollution, a zero-waste society seems a distant dream.

Zen

Sheryl Ozinsky

Fallow fields

Ensuring shelves are stocked with ‘green’ produce is not enough for supermarkets, who are reaping increasing profi ts from impoverished rural areas while withholding the key that could help unlock greater economic sustainability.

Fallow

Steve Kretzmann

Consumers and retailers drive the new world marketplace.

The worldwide natural and organic industry boom signals a huge shift in marketing and manufacturing.

Consumers

David Wolstenholme

Is there something fishy in your trolley?

More and more people are eating seafood because it is healthy and comes in a delicious variety of forms, flavors and textures.

Your

Jaco Baarend

Greening the value chain

As we move towards a greener food chain, it’s important for producers, retailers and consumers to be clear about how their actions impact on communities and the environment elsewhere along the chain.

Greening

Lynton Burger

How to suss out your brand

A sustainable consumer goods brand has attributes that go beyond price and provides solutions to societal and ecological imbalances that are increasingly important to global consumers.

How

Lynton Burger

From risk avoidance to a new blueprint for survival

Sustainability provides business with a serious game of risk and opportunity.

From

Nicola Robins