Category: Environment
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The Resilience Reading Circle inspired by Olive Senior
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The Fern Ticket
Written during my year as writer-in-residence for Forestry England The Fern Ticket I *In the Forest of Dean, to have had your first amourous experience in the forest was […]
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Art Deco in Johannesburg
Rogers Cooke designed many theatres and cinemas in Gauteng and the creative crowd followed him to Auckland Park. Everyone who was anyone in the arts and entertainment industry seemed to have a connection with the spot.
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Environmental implication of Joburg’s mining history
The epicentre of the tremor was said to be beneath UJ’s Auckland Park campus by the Council for Geoscience but Dr van Niekerk suspects that a more accurate analysis would find the tremor started at a nearby mine shaft. “It is very difficult to come up with an epicentre because it takes a lot of…
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A history of the environment of Fairland, Johannesburg
The trees were planted in diagonal rows to mimic the design of the British flag. Today, the layout can be seen from Google Maps Satellite view, though some of the trees are no longer in place.
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Joburg’s ‘handkerchief’ trees
Angus Gunn and the handkerchief tree MONTGOMERY PARK – Retired horticulturalist Angus Gunn gives a byte of history about the Johannesburg Botanic Gardens. September 11, 2013 The handkerchief tree (Davida […]
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‘The Garden of Eden’ in Black Hill, Portland, Jamaica
He’s turned virtually anything into something artistic, recycled and decorated by himself and he was more than happy to show us the different elements that connected to make his Jamaican oasis come alive. Its a mecca for tourists, locals, artsy people and if you’re there and you dont look in awe…something is seriously wrong with…
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The Coconut Revolution- A MUST SEE DOCUMENTARY
Come and see entire communities running on hydroelectricity with coconuts as the main resource for oil, petrol, soap and more. The Bouganville Revolution did that!