Relax with Dax

On Saturday evening I attended the first Eco-Logic awards. It was held at the ICC and overall it was a top notch event which was well attended. However, there was one fundamental problem with the award, which if they address for the next awards, it will be an event well worth attending. What did I [...]

A while backed I reviewed a documentary which impressed me. It was called The World According to Monsanto. It was a documentary about genetic modification of food, a favourite topic of mine (you can read some of my thoughts on the topic here and here). What made this documentary unique was that it did not [...]

To celebrate World Environment Week, I decided to post my list of 5 ways to save the world without killing yourself. Many people believe that you have to radically change your lifestyle to make a difference, but that’s not true. If we all make small changes, they will have a big impact. More importantly they [...]

I’ve never really been that impressed with South African TV, but lately that seems to be changing. I wrote about the TV series MAN which has been airing on Friday nights recently. I thought it was pretty good and I’ve also been impressed with another recent series called Way of the Warrior. The other day [...]

My experience is that there is a growing disconnect between people and the food they consume (I use the word consume because I think eating has connotations which often don’t apply). I have many friends who cannot cook, many more who struggle to determine the difference between healthy and unhealthy options and most people I [...]

The other day I attended the Atlantic Seaboard Green Drinks. They happen every month but I was particularly keen to attend this one because the presenter was the sustainability manager at Woolworths, Justin Smith. Woolworths always gets a hard time about their packaging, but I know that they are actually doing some really good work in the sustainability [...]

I recently went to the launch of the new Earth Centre at Backsberg wine estate. Backsberg has constructed a hay bale house which will serve two purposes, an education centre focused on environmental issues and the offices of Food & Trees for Africa. Food & Trees for Africa have been doing good work in Africa [...]

I haven’t been to the Bastille Festival in Franschoek for several years. I went for the first few years and then I started going to the Knysna Oyster Festival. This year, work commitments forced me to cancel my Knysna plans so I ended up at the Bastille Festival again. It has certainly grown! It used [...]

In November 2007 I posted an article about Biowatch being told by the courts to pay Monsanto’s court costs, even though Biowatch won their case. This disturing ruling has prevented me from sleeping easily all this time. Biowatch were refused leave to appeal, so they went to the constitutional court and finally some sense prevailed and [...]

I must admit that I do recall seeing little StreetSmart cards at some of the restaurants I’ve been to but I never took the time to read them. Thankfully I was exposed to StreetSmart in another way when I attended the awards celebration for Rossouw’s restaurant guide recently. Rossouw’s restaurant guide supports StreetSmart and so [...]

A while ago I posted about Eat In magazine and their award for Best New Product which went to Buffalo Ridge Mozzarella. I recently had the opportunity through Slow Food Cape Town, to visit the farm and learn about Mozzarella and how it is made. The farm is located in Wellington, about an hour from [...]

A group of us decided that there is a disconnect between worthy charities and people who want to give back to society. Despite having a desire to assist and make a difference somehow, people often find it difficult to find a suitable charity with which they connect and which needs assistance. We want to introduce [...]

I’ve spoken about the WWF before and mentioned that they are involved in many different and worthwhile projects (read my posts here and here). The most recent project they are involved in is Earth Hour 2009. Earth Hour started in 2007 in Australia and was supported by 2 million people. Last year it went global [...]

I remember hearing a while back about someone asking a bunch of kids (at school?) where chickens come from and although the responses were varied, they were all supermarket names. I don’t find that story difficult to believe at all. Children grow up in cities and unless some concerted effort is made to expose them to [...]

Just recently in China, two people have been sentenced to death and another sentenced to life imprisonment, all in connection with the tainting of milk products with melamine. If you are interested, you can read more about it here. It reminded me of a comment I posted in June 2007, entitled How to end corruption. At [...]