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posted by Daniel Steyn on 11 January 2012

I came across this article, from the New York Times again recently. It provides some useful insight into the complexities and difficulties surrounding the restoration of the historic built environment in Venice. Notably in this instance the massive...

posted by Daniel Steyn on 17 November 2011

South African based community based NGO TOUCH is training unemployed seamstresses to make rugby balls from recycled billboard materials, addressing the problems of waste and unemployment simultaneously.

According to Springwise.com:

The balls are made from recycled billboards and stuffed with 25 to 30 plastics bags collected from the streets by the community. The project hopes to...

posted by Daniel Steyn on 24 October 2011

A couple of months ago we were wondering what was happening on the roof above A&A Furnishers on Kloof Street. Turns out it’s an Emirates sponsored vertical garden.

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