Cape Town gets a Green Map!
The City of Cape Town gives the go-ahead to A&C maps and urban sprout to begin work on producing a Cape Town Green Map for the Mother City. The team is to create both an online and a printed map...
View ArticleCape Town's logo & website
Our logo is designed, selected and finalised (after much debate), and the team begins work on the website and blog. At the same time, work begins on adding sites to the online map, as yet not viewable...
View ArticleWebsite goes live in beta
The website - www.capetowngreenmap.co.za goes live in beta version on 30 March. The team is happy with its progress, although there are still a few things to iron out before the official launch of the...
View ArticleCape Town Green Map goes 'live' with a virtual launch on World Environment Day
The Cape Town Green Map - www.capetowngreenmap.co.za isn’t just a bunch of intersecting lines and street names. Rather it is the heart of the city, a green life-force, which sends out information via...
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Cape Town Green Map reaches 167 sites
Cape Town Green Map currently has 167 sites listed and is growing steadily. The project team decided that it was neccessary to inform the residents of Cape Town about the project and the availability...
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200 listings for the Cape Town Green Map
The Cape Town Green Map has reached the 200 listings mark! This is an exciting time as we embark on compiling our printed Green Map. Our website receive a considerable boost in traffic after we placed...
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Cape Town Green Map - Now Available in print
The 24 November 2009 was the launch of the print version of the Cape Town Green Map - a user-friendly, handy guide that makes green choices both accessible and meaningful. The print map is a fresh take...
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Cape Town Green Map reaches 300+ listings!
The Cape Town Green Map recently surpassed the 300 listings mark! This is a great achievement! We also received some super coverage on CNN, with the Green Cab's, Amiene van der Merwe including the Cape...
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Biodiversity deferred!
Read the article by Dr Janice Golding, an Honorary Research Associate (Botany) at the University of Cape Town who is also the author of Extinction by Design: plant ecology, species extinction and...
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Cape Town Green Maps make it to New York!
We were very happy that our parcel made it to the Green Map office in New York and hope that as many map makers as possible can get a copy of our map."so happy to find such a nice big box of your cool...
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Cape Town Green Map wins Golden Trash Award
The Cape Town Green Map was recently awarded a Golden Trash Award, receiving 2 Leaves!The criteria for this award are: We’re looking to celebrate the world of Green online. We want to award people and...
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Explore the Cape Town Green Map with Google Earth & Streetview
Bring the Cape Town Green Map to life using Google Earth & Street View. You can explore the sites in 3D, look at them using Streetview and bring a new dimension to how you experience the CapeTown...
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Vote for Table Mountain in Cape Town Today
VOTE FOR TABLE MOUNTAIN TODAYTable Mountain is one of only 28 natural sites from around the globe shortlisted to be named one of the Official New7Wonders of Nature.From an initial list of 440...
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The Cape Town Green Map is evolving
It has been a very busy few months. The Cape Town Green Map team has just finished and printed its 3rd Edition of its Green Map. We even managed to get the City's Mayor to pose for the cover. Added to...
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CRUNCH TIME FOR TABLE MOUNTAIN, Cape Town, South Africa, IN SEVEN WONDERS RACE
Table Mountain could be named one of the New7Wonders of Nature, an accolade that could generate up to 11 000 new jobs and an additional R1.4 billion in annual revenue for South Africa.The only way to...
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A New Brand of African Environmentalism
Janice Golding argues that Africa needs to cultivate environmental champions and high-thinkers who live by the heart, relate to the land and who can articulate an alternative indigenous environmental...
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Cape Town Green Map – a legacy project on the move
Although 2010 FIFA World Cup™ is now only a fond memory, it did leave a few legacy projects that have benefitted Cape Town in its wake. The Cape Town Green Map is one such project that has kept up the...
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Cape Town prints 4th Edition Cape Town Green Map
2012 was a busy year for the Cape Town Green Map. Through it all we managed to produce our 4th Edition Print Map, with the support of the City of Cape Town's Waste Management Department.See our Media...
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Please Support Cape Town Green Map in the SA Blog Awards 2013
The public vote phase for the South African Blog Awards 2013 opens on Monday 2 December 2013. Please support the Cape Town Green Map's blog and cast your vote!Simply click the button on our page and...
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Help us to vote for Cape Town for a sustainable future powered by renewable...
Supporters of the Cape Town Green Map can now start voting to show the world why Cape Town should be named the world's most loveable sustainable city #welovecapetown Cape Town has been selected as a...
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Cape Town's Green by Design Map
World Design Capital (WDC) is a biannual honour awarded by the International Council for Societies of Industrial Design, to cities across the globe, to show its commitment to using design as a social,...
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Cape Town Green Map is Runner-Up in the Innovations for Climate Change...
Cape Town Green Map and the Ackerman Pick n Pay Foundation were both runners up in this category of the Greening the Future Awards.Cape Town Green Map is thrilled to have received this recognition and...
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Live Earth Climate Concert in Cape Town in June
At Davos, Al Gore & Pharrell Williams announce global Live Earth Climate Concert in six cities in June - Paris, New York, Rio de Janeiro, Beijing, Sydney and Cape Town.A Live Earth music event to...
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11th International Conference on Responsible Tourism in Destinations In Cape...
Cape Town will proudly host the 11th Responsible Tourism in Destinations conference on 14 and 15 April 2015 at the Cape Town International Convention Centre.11th International Conference on...
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Please Help Us Vote for Lumkani to Revolutionize Fire Prevention
The cape Town Green Map would like to offer its support! Plus, we will publish an in depth follow up blog next week! See the end of the article for details.PLEASE HELP US WITH YOUR VOTESixteen...
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Cape Town Green Map Congratulates Lumkani Fire Detection
Lumkani Fire Detection has been announced as one of the top 5 final winners for Chivas Regal’s search for the next big idea in social enterprise, The Venture.Lumkani went head-to-head with 15...
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Nedbank Green Wine Awards – Honouring producers who conserve the winelands
The Green Wine Awards also saw the launch of the new Nedbank Green Wine Winners Route in asociation with Cape Town Green Map. The Green Wine Awards, now in their eighth year and Africa’s only wine...
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