The Miss Earth South Africa Clean Up Johannesburg’s Melville Koppies.
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World Environment day update
Monday, July 19th, 2010Melville Koppies Clean UP with Timberland
Tuesday, June 15th, 2010
“When we arranged with the organisers for Miss Earth finalists to visit Melville Koppies for a work party, I was very sceptical. We imagined beautiful young ‘poppies’ flitting about more concerned with their finger nails than the hard task of weeding that we requested. What a wonderful surprise we had. The girls were young and very beautiful, but wow could they work! Two groups got totally immersed in fields of black jacks and chaff weed. Another group delved deep into the Westdene Spruit and hauled out all sorts of interesting litter. Later they were joined by the City Year volunteers who helped with some weeding. The morning finished off with some rousing Diski dancing to celebrate the pending World Cup. Timberland representatives provided very welcome refreshments and labour and made the day possible. Our congratulations to the organisers of the Miss Earth programme for the way they inspire the girls to really make a difference to our environment and needy people.”
Wendy Carstens.
Chairman of the volunteer Melville Koppies Management Committee
What are you doing on World Enviro Day?
Saturday, June 5th, 2010
Welcome To Jozi
Tuesday, June 1st, 2010
Highveld Stereo and 702 recently launched a ‘WELCOME TO JOZI’ Campaign in Gauteng. A Group of the 2010 Semi Finalists joined the public, presenters from the radio station and Soccer Fans as they did there bit to colour the town beautiful. The Girls painted part of a banner that is going to be put up, played soccer and learned the Disci Dance. All in anticipation of Kick Off next week Friday at Soccer City.
Zakumi, Miss Earth South Africa celebrating 2010
Wednesday, April 28th, 2010
Our Award Winning Gardenex Stand
Wednesday, April 7th, 2010
The Miss Earth South Africa had an Award Winning stand at Gardenex this year. Decorated by Leeways Nurseries, the stand won Best Medium Stand of the Exhibition. Several Miss Earth South Africa Applicants participated in the Ready Steady Plant, the Eco-Fashion Show, “Be Green” Workshop and visited several other stands at the show…
2010 Bird of the year
Wednesday, April 7th, 2010
The Flamingo is 2010’s Bird of the year. The Miss Earth South Africa Semi-Finalists joined Birdlife at the JHB Zoo last week to promote the SASOL Bird Fair on May 1st - 2nd
Join us for Earth Hour
Wednesday, March 17th, 2010
“We have only one planet. Given what we know about climate change today, it would be foolish not to act. Earth Hour 2010 gives an opportunity to the people of the world to unite in a call for action on climate change and to take the lead by making changes in their own lives.”
– Dr Morné du Plessis, CEO, WWF South Africa
For Earth Hour 2010, WWF calls on all South Africans to switch off their lights on Saturday, 27 March, as a symbolic act to send a powerful message to leaders that the time to act on climate change is now.
The Copenhagen Climate Summit in December failed to deliver the climate deal our planet needs. This year WWF is challenging individuals to take the lead by pledging to reduce their own carbon footprint. We have to show world leaders that we are serious about tackling climate change and that we want them to deliver a fair, effective and binding climate deal – a deal that keeps global warming as far below 2 degrees as possible.
Archbishop Desmond Tutu is the patron of the campaign, and Cape Town , Johannesburg and Durban have already pledged their support for Earth Hour 2010.
Participating in Earth Hour is easy, fun and free. All you need to do is:
• Switch off the lights of your home on 27 March from 8:30pm – 9:30pm.
• Spread the message to your friends and family.
Save the date: Saturday, 27 March 2010, 8:30pm – 9:30pm.
We hope that you will support Earth Hour 2010. Together we can make a difference.
Save the Frogs Day, 30 April 2010
Thursday, March 11th, 2010
In an effort to raise awareness of the plight of amphibians, the scientific community has declared Friday April 30th, 2010 the 2nd Annual ‘Save The Frogs Day’. On this day we encourage the appreciation and celebration of amphibians by people from all walks of life.
Please get involved and help spread the word. Only a small proportion of our public is aware that frogs are disappearing, and amphibian conservation efforts will not be successful with an uninformed public. Our goal is to make the amphibian extinction crisis common knowledge by Save The Frogs Day: help make it happen!
We will be hosting educational programmes – watch out for us in your community creating awareness of frogs and the amphibian crisis
