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Environment

Product shoutouts

Highlighting some products and manufacturers who, in the main, seem to be doing their best to consider the environmental impact of the items they are offering up to us for sale.

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Hand cutout with world and heart by Artem Ppodrez from Pexels
Environment

The Diary of an Environmental Ambassador

I will be writing this blog as the Environment lead for Rotary Club of Johannesburg New Dawn and as the club’s Ambassador for the endplasticsoup initiative. These stories will introduce you to the people I meet, share my frustrations and hopefully a few triumphs too. But as I write this I have very little idea of where I’m going. I just hope you’ll stay long enough to find out and perhaps help me when I get lost.

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Weekly Meetings

April is the Cruelest Month

April is turning out to be a challenging month with the Easter weekend smack in the middle of it and another public holiday next week Wednesday (27 April, Freedom Day), the day the Rotary Club of Johannesburg New Dawn usually meets. That’s followed by yet another public holiday, Workers’ Day, on Monday, 1 May.

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The seedlings in full growth, as photographed by Glen Meyer last week
Weekly Meetings

Light in the Seedlings Tunnel

There’s light at the end of the (seedlings) tunnel, President Ian Widdop reported after the man at the helm of the Urban Agriculture Initiative, Brendon Martens, also a fellow Rotarian and club member, decided to take a sabbatical following the birth of his third child.

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Social Meeting

Please Sir, Can I Have Some More Pizza

A happy festive occasion with some great Rotary fellowship, the glue that holds a club together. We’re not just there because we want to do good in the world, but also because we enjoy each other’s company.

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