Party hard, tread lightly! What's Popping 6 October

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▪ Rocking the Daisies was a hot, vibrant weekend to remember!

Greenpoppers spent the weekend managing the Green Village, where festival-goers enjoyed the Hemp Stage sponosred by the awesome Hemporium and a whole host of interesting interactive activation stands, all powered completely the SUN through MLT Drives solar!

One of our main partners at the Green Village was Reliance Compost, who had nearly 1000 festival-goers calculate their carbon footprint to the festival, and balance that by making a green pledge or planting a tree with Greenpop!

Amongst all the wonderfully talented artists (thank you all) that filled our line-up, we enjoyed an awesome fire-dance performance by the Psychedelic Theatre. Overall it was an incredible festival and we are already looking forward to next year! Photo album ad facebook competition will be up soon - watch this space!

▪ Come on board the Greenpop Events Production team! Between Rocking the Daisies, the Greyton Rose Festival, plant days and a three-week Festival of Action that is Trees for Zambia, Greenpop has a lot going on at the moment, and is seeking someone with strong organisational skills in logistics, as well as strong communication skills. We are looking for an Events Hardware Intern, a position that requires a drivers' license, a self-starter attitude and problem solving skills. Email talitha@greenpop.org for more details and to inquire about applications.

▪ This week is Carpool Week!

To raise awareness about the benefits of carpooling and to have the chance to win, you just have to take a selfie of you carpooling week; upload the photo to social media and either
1) hashtag the photo #giveitago #carpoolweekSA or
2) email the photo to selfie@findalift.co.za.

Check out a video about Carpool Week and find info on prizes for the competition.

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▪ Patrick Holford's South Africa Tour presents a series of workshops around South Africa throughout October.
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Cape Town will host five of these, including the Good Medicine Seminar on Friday 17 October at 18h00 at Belmond Square.

Visit the Greenpop Facebook Page to win tickets by motivating why you really want to attend this seminar.

▪ The Greyton Rose Fair 2014 will see Greyton hosting the 23rd Rose Fair, as well as markets and plenty beautiful hikes and mountain bike trails to explore... and Greenpop will be planting 300 trees!

The dates are 25 and 26 October and the theme this year is Exploring the Senses.

Watch this space for details on how you can join the Greenpop team, plant trees and enjoy Greyton - it's a Transition Town so is a must visit spot!

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▪ Building Keyhole Gardens in Lesotho is a success! Keyhole Gardens were designed by the National University of Lesotho to be the most water and energy efficient way to grow vegetables in the highlands.

Funded by A Good Foundation, GROW is a project working on keyhole gardens in the community of Marakabei (a village 107km south east of Maseru, Lesotho). In 2012 100 keyhole gardens were made and these are flourishing!

▪ Good news for rainforest protection! At the UN Climate Summit the New York Declaration on Forests requires an end to forest loss and efforts toward reforestation as well. While numerous companies have taken on this declaration, it is necesary that they go the extra mile.

Cargill is setting an example. This American agribusiness giant that is a prime connector to world markets that has made a concrete pledge to stop cutting down rain forests. Activists have been pressuring Cargill for years, and now that it’s made itself news, we need to be sure to monitor its environmental progress, and hope that this declaration will become a reality.

▪ Garbage flows' pinch points might be the next solution! Research into the plastic waste in our oceans is limited by many factors, but one of the scariest is that it gets broken down into tiny pieces that we cannot even capture in nets to monitor and do not know its impact.

According to Sara Bernard in an article published in Grist, "Ultimately, the cleanup solution probably starts on land." Several oceanographers like the idea of sucking up trash before it gets into the ocean. One potentially scalable cleanup project is the Baltimore Water Wheel, an interesting project to take a look at!

Artist: Mandy Barker

Artists worldwide are turning ocean trash into classy, thought-provoking art.

We are inspired by Mandy Barker's collection Soup (a term for the suspended debris in the oceans). This piece is made up of 500 bits of plastic debris found in the digestive tract of a (dead) albatross chick in the North Pacific Gyre (aka the Great Garbage Patch).

Barker dares not use the word 'up-cycled' as a way of sugar-coating the problems in our oceans, but rather takes up the tools at hand to make striking pictures that are raising awareness worldwide.

We love this art, way to go!

Have a wonderful week, Greenpoppers - over and out!

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