Living Lightly

Light Living in South Africa, for the Life of the World!

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Water water everywhere...

Do you have questions about your province or municipality's report card on water quality? Find helpful scientific information, news items and updates about the Department of Water Affairs 2009 Blue Drop Report on South Africa's water quality at the Federation for a Sustainable Environment website here

Newish Books for Gardening and Eating Lightly

  1. Jane Griffiths' Jane's Delicious Garden, How to Grow Organic Vegetables and Herbs in South Africa, Sunbird, Not a light-on-carbon-emissions purchase, but authoritative, beautiful, local and lekker. http://www.loot.co.za/shop/main.jsp?page=detail&id=6803676082928
  2. Johan Gerber's The Garden Guardian's Guide to Environmentally Responsible Garden Care, Aardvark Press, An essential handbook presenting South African options for biological controls of pests. http://www.aardvarkpress.co.za/ProductInfo.aspx?productid=9780958478557
  3. Barbara Kinsolver's Animal, Vegetable, Miracle, A Year of Food Life, Harper Collins, An inspirational biographical exploration of lifestyle change creation care through permaculture. http://www.amazon.com/Animal-Vegetable-Miracle-Year-Food/dp/0060852550
  4. Gillian McKeith's Food Bible, The Complete AZ Guide to a Healthy Life, Penguin, A not quite complete but very informative guide to food and eating healthily. http://www.gillianmckeith.info/gillianmckeithbooks/books-foodbible.php

Thank you for visiting our new page. I am interested in finding new resources to help this Living Lightly page reach more and more people with life-bringing entries. If you have renewable energy resource tips or NGO website addresses to recommend, book or magazine titles to suggest, or any ideas you want to contribute for making this page take root fruitfully in South African soil, please send them to me: allen.goddard@arocha.org

GO SOLAR AND SAVE + R10 000 UP FRONT!

ARZA Friend, Dr. Andrew Grant of Empangeni has created a simple way to use your hot water geyser (instead of mothballing it) when you convert to solar power, without having to install a solar geyser. All you need to effect this simple conversion is a solar panel, some piping and Andrew's two drawings for a plumber and an electrician. We also include Andrew's simple instructions which work on the simple science that hot water rises! Andrew has installed this system himself. Thanks Andrew for your Friendship with A Rocha and for sharing your innovative invention as an A Rocha initiative. See the details here 
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