It is Saturday and not an ordinary Saturday but globally a very significant one. Thousands of people from all over the world are participating in what will go down in history as one of the most significant awareness events to date, a call for action to reduce the CO2 concentration of the atmosphere down to…
Monthly Archives: Oct 2009
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After a few creative brainstorming sessions Rethink the Predator was born. Like the rethink the shark campaign, this campaign has a number of different elements and this is just one of them.
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In my capacity as a freelance environmental journalist I attended the press conference for the Blue Carbon Report on Healthy Oceans at the Diversitas Conference held in Cape Town this week. The Blue Carbon report, compiled in collaboration with the Food and Agricultural Organization (FOA) and the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO),…
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The headline of the paper read, “Organized chaos as Muizenburg attempts to get most surfers riding the same wave.” For me on my board behind the backline chaos was the operative word. Michael Carnegie, one of the SOS Shark Centre educators, and I were amongst about 400 surfers trying to line up to catch the…