– Edward O. Wilson
Journey Through Earth Time
Herewith the July 2020 edition of the challenge to venture on a ‘Journey through Earth-Time’ here at our ‘Microcosm of the World’ (home in Pretoria). This PDF tracks the first 100 days of lockdown Please download the PDF by clicking below and join us in journeying in...
Microcosm of the World – May 2020
Herewith the May 2020 edition of the challenge to venture on a ‘Journey through Earth-Time’ here at our ‘Microcosm of the World’ (home in Pretoria); Please download the PDF by clicking below and join us in journeying in the most creative way we can. John Anderson...
Microcosm of the world
In this most extraordinary of times, I’ve taken up the challenge to venture on a ‘Journey through Earth-Time’ here at our ‘Microcosm of the World’ (home in Pretoria); starting on SA’s first day of Covid-virus lockdown (27 March), through to the 50th Anniversary of...
Earth Alive Corridors – Towards 7 Billion Earth Stewards
by Dr Tracey Phillips Humanity didn’t make the Earth but we do need to look after it… Our Earth and the diversity of life that inhabits it are in serious trouble. We are in the grip of a rapidly escalating global extinction. The fossil record shows there have already...
What are we doing?
#ThoughtfulThursday #Sustainability #KeepGondwanaAlive Human beings as we know them today are the one species with the cognitive ability to prevent our own extinction. Why is it then that we are busy wiping out not only our own life support system but also that of the...
Sustainability is the Art of working with Wholes
Sustainability is the Art of working with Wholes Ever hurt your foot and start limping only to have the rest of you start hurting? Its a good reminder that everything is connected, and that we need to work with the connectivity between things. We need to ask ourselves...
PSSA Honorary Lifetime Award for John Anderson
Dr John Anderson has been awarded Honorary Lifetime Membership of the PSSA (Paleontology Society of Southern Africa). John's passion for his field of study and his love for Keeping Gondwana Alive have always been evident to anyone who knows him. Read more about...
BRK Land & Livestock Adaptation Project
BRK Land & Livestock Adaptation Project Report by Douglas Engelbrecht & Amanda Cloete, 14 Augustus, 2017 Goeie dag, my naam is Douglas Engelbrecht Ek woon in Leliefontein in die Kamiesberge van Namakwaland Ons gemeenskap boer...
Gardening for Life – a young father’s work and dreams
Sivuyile kaNtlabeni’s Story by Mandlakazi Mgwebi Sivuyile is a young father of two, living in an informal settlement in Khayelitsha in the City Cape Town, South Africa. He lives with his wife and his two children. He moved with his family from the Eastern Cape...
Helping Youth, Preserving Culture
By Dr Tracey Phillips Marentia Meisenheimer is a young single mother of 4 living in Leliefontein – a remote rural farming community in Namaqualand, South Africa. In December last year she started working as a local coordinator for the SGF climate change adaptation...
Grow Green – Mamgcina’s Story
Gondwana Alive’s #GrowGreen Programme builds stewardship capacity through mentorship and training. We have partnered with South Africa’s Community Works Programme (CWP) to help this programme contribute not only towards job creation but also to the development and...
Six Things to do in Spring
by Sheree-Ann Jooste Every change of seasons is symbolic in its own way, but spring, specifically the first day, is especially meaningful because it’s associated with rebirth, growth, and renewed optimism. Here are 6 things to do to simply because it’s Spring Day. ☺...
Springtime. Let’s be bothered.
by Gary Simons So the season of Spring is nearly upon us. The time when all new things bloom, etc etc etc. Some of us will use it as a motivation to clean our homes, get rid of all that hoarded old junk, or simply clean in places that haven’t been for a long time....
Green Nature Stewards at Your Service
Get your very own Green Nature Steward. Yes indeed, we have that facility here on the Gondwana Alive Webpage. Check it out by clicking here Grow Green Advisor This is a work in progress, but here’s the basic idea. You have some kind of work to do and you want to do it...
The cold hot facts of faith in science
by Gary Simons It’s currently freezing cold in Cape Town. But is it really? It’s all a matter of comparison to ‘with what’. To the Sahara desert, yes. Well during the day anyway, because at night in the Sahara it’s cold, Very cold. Probably cold enough to kill you if...