Insects? Nature? It’s all about plants!
With arbour week coming up, this is the perfect time to share the fourth and final instalment on the temporary…
WICD – climate change chronicles (Part 2)
We recently completed another round of workshops with Grade 10 learners, in partnership with Umkhumbane Schools Project in Cato Manor,…
Insects: the silent extinction
The focus of this edition of Leopard’s Echo is ‘endangered species’. This is a good opportunity to share the third…
WICD – climate change chronicles (Part 1)
With this blog I’m happy to share the experience from the first three sessions in a series of climate change…
Teaching with ulterior motives
Last week I presented to around 70 pre-service and 3rd year student teachers at Edgewood Campus (UKZN School of Education).…
Progress with partners
Let me report back briefly on three recent events with Kloof High School, which have been extremely rewarding and motivating.…
Solar savings
It’s been two years since we installed solar power. How has it worked for us? The details may be complicated,…
Climate change in Africa
This is just a quick post to publish various links to useful resources on climate change in Africa, to make…
Join us for a climate change edu-action workshop
This workshop offers training and resources on climate change, to empower educators to engage learners (and their families), to build…
I spy with my insect eye
Many organisms manage fine, or better, without eyesight, but nevertheless eyes are extremely useful. Eyes have evolved on at least 40…
Biodiversity Day 2024
Today (22 May) is International Day for Biological Diversity. This year’s theme invites us to “Be part of the Plan”.…
Flood warnings
Disasters strike at random, and catch people off-guard. People also panic when they don’t know for sure what to expect.…
Celebrating with WESSA Eco-Schools
On 16 March, the Wildlife and Environment Society of South Africa (WESSA) Eco-Schools celebrated the transformative impact of the Eco-Schools…
Drowning in plastic
Today is Global Recycling Day. So does recycling actually work? Recycling is THE single best known ‘green’ concept, I reckon.…
On the eve of EVs
Today, on World Consumer Rights Day, I make a wish to be able to afford an electric car. I would…
WICD Pilot
Nearly a year ago, the opening session of the What I Can Do (WICD) About Climate Change Action Programme got…
Brown gold
Today, on World Soil Day, we celebrate the fact that healthy, living soil in nature is full of dead things,…
Insect roles in nature (2)
In the last article I started presenting the contents of a temporary exhibition that sadly fell victim to the pandemic. We covered…
Hot box cooking
Cooking in a hot box / hot bag saves electricity while reducing our carbon footprint. Food takes only slightly longer…
Insect roles in nature (1)
Back in 2018 and 2019 Andrew Carter of the Durban Natural Science Museum and I put together a temporary exhibition on the…
Walk the talk
On 19 May I presented at a Climate Change Seminar, under the slogan ‘Walk the talk’. It was part of…
Edu-ca/ac-tion Indaba
Ten days ago, supported by EThekwini Municipality and Green Corridors, around 100 environmental education / public awareness practitioners met for…
Rag rugs
The Internet is full of fantastic ideas for upcycling generally (turning waste into something useful), and rag-rugs specifically. Old T-shirts…
Insects get around
Having just returned from an international trip, exhausted from sitting around on aeroplanes and airports for many hours, I couldn’t…
Bottle garden
In a city, one doesn’t always have access to a vegetable patch. But vertical gardens are a great way to…
Solar home
As I write, our neighbourhood is wrapped in darkness. At Stage 6 national load shedding, electricity cuts out several times…
Climate Action Programme
On Youth Day (24 June 2022) the South African Youth Climate Change Coalition (SAYCCC) ran a workshop in Durban to…
Insect lore and legend
For me personally, the diversity of insects is a wonderful expression of the creativity of the Creator: the vast and…
World Environment Day 2022
The theme of this year’s World Environment Day is “Only One Earth”. Over the past year the Intergovernmental Panel on…
Insect migrations
Smaller, vaster, better, faster Insects migrate. In a GRAND way. Forget the migration of the wildebeest across the Serengeti. The…
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