Comments on: Local is lekker, imported is bad for the planet http://www.ecostreet.com/blog/sustainable-lifestyle/2009/06/24/local-is-lekker-imported-is-bad-for-the-planet/ A walk down EcoStreet is a step in the green direction. Thu, 18 Mar 2010 06:31:14 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Candice http://www.ecostreet.com/blog/sustainable-lifestyle/2009/06/24/local-is-lekker-imported-is-bad-for-the-planet/comment-page-1/#comment-69251 Candice Fri, 26 Jun 2009 12:12:41 +0000 http://www.ecostreet.com/blog/?p=2809#comment-69251 Hi Hanlie I have heard from the CSA organiser that there has been a request to start a drop off point in Durbanville/Belville area and since there are 7 or so people keen, they are going to do it. Who knows, you may have started that! But if not, thought I'd let you know... Hi Hanlie

I have heard from the CSA organiser that there has been a request to start a drop off point in Durbanville/Belville area and since there are 7 or so people keen, they are going to do it. Who knows, you may have started that! But if not, thought I’d let you know…

]]> By: Stefan http://www.ecostreet.com/blog/sustainable-lifestyle/2009/06/24/local-is-lekker-imported-is-bad-for-the-planet/comment-page-1/#comment-69245 Stefan Wed, 24 Jun 2009 22:01:52 +0000 http://www.ecostreet.com/blog/?p=2809#comment-69245 Although a sympathetic and well-meant line of thinking, pls imagine what would happen to the SA agricultural sector if Europeans would en masse do the same... Come on, sustainability is about more than carbon footprint. It's also about people's livelyhoods, even more so in SA... Although a sympathetic and well-meant line of thinking, pls imagine what would happen to the SA agricultural sector if Europeans would en masse do the same… Come on, sustainability is about more than carbon footprint. It’s also about people’s livelyhoods, even more so in SA…

]]> By: Mark Berger http://www.ecostreet.com/blog/sustainable-lifestyle/2009/06/24/local-is-lekker-imported-is-bad-for-the-planet/comment-page-1/#comment-69244 Mark Berger Wed, 24 Jun 2009 19:27:35 +0000 http://www.ecostreet.com/blog/?p=2809#comment-69244 Hi Tracy Lekker article - gives me "food for thought" Our family only just started sorting our garbage for recycling and I am ASTOUNDED by how little we actually throw away now. Thanks also for mentioning my article... Yours in conscious living Mark Hi Tracy

Lekker article – gives me “food for thought”
Our family only just started sorting our garbage for recycling and I am ASTOUNDED by how little we actually throw away now.
Thanks also for mentioning my article…
Yours in conscious living
Mark

]]> By: Hanlie http://www.ecostreet.com/blog/sustainable-lifestyle/2009/06/24/local-is-lekker-imported-is-bad-for-the-planet/comment-page-1/#comment-69242 Hanlie Wed, 24 Jun 2009 14:08:42 +0000 http://www.ecostreet.com/blog/?p=2809#comment-69242 I've been very frustrated since moving to the Northern Suburbs to find that there are no organic box schemes operating in this area. We were talking about it over the weekend - we really want to support local produce and organic farmers in order to help grow the market, but if it's not accessible to us, who are surely not the only people in the Northern Suburbs who are interested in organics, then everybody, us and the farmers, lose out. Please can you help? .-= Hanlie´s last blog ..<a href="http://www.fertilehealthy.com/blog/2009/06/24/nobody-puts-baby-in-a-corner/" rel="nofollow">Nobody puts Baby in a corner!</a> =-. I’ve been very frustrated since moving to the Northern Suburbs to find that there are no organic box schemes operating in this area. We were talking about it over the weekend – we really want to support local produce and organic farmers in order to help grow the market, but if it’s not accessible to us, who are surely not the only people in the Northern Suburbs who are interested in organics, then everybody, us and the farmers, lose out.

Please can you help?
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