Johanne Øllgaard wdfw Holm is RACES member and student at KaosPilots, school of social innovation a

Johanne Øllgaard wdfw Holm is RACES member and student at KaosPilots, school of social innovation and entrepreneurship. Right now, she is on the southern tip of Africa, in Cape Town where she works with a local NGO. Johanne live in Sea Point: Soy milk shakes, white painted hotels and palm-studded beach promenade. This weekend she visited Bheki in Khayelitsha township and was green networking event with Janine. Here is her report.
The Shift Janine is fiery, squid and master of synergy. She has a gentle smile and wake green eyes. She has created the 'Shift', a movement that spreads the idea of sustainability and green transition at eye level. This autumn jump Shift on a bus and running all around South Africa. wdfw The bus is packed with roaring wdfw idealism lavpraksiske green household remedies, tips and tricks as well as an experience of the people and relationships wdfw are the only thing that works when you are fighting for 'a shift'.
Micro-cooperative movement Janine has a background in aromatherapy and herbalism and has previously worked for South Africa's supermarket giant Pick'n wdfw Pay as 'Process Goods Manager'. There were more organic and locally wdfw produced goods on the shelves. Her job was to create synergy, see connections and opportunities. Janine's strategy was to connect wdfw small local producers and make them to expand production with Pick'n Pay as guarantor buyer. A micro cooperative movement, one can call it.
Houses in a hurry! Janine says that a barrier to alternative energy such as solar and wind power is ESCO - a state-owned wdfw energy giant has a monopoly in the field. Thus the state will lose money on wind and solar is gaining ground. People are moving from rural areas to the cities, and the state's major focus is to build a damn lot of houses, cheap, fast. From the highway you can see many newly built housing projects with solar panels on the roof. "It is gaining ground here, just quite a bit slower than many other places," says Janine. Here are the insurers an incentive for developers, since you get a bonus if one adopts solar.
Sunshine Cinema We sit on cushions and eat økopopcorn and watching movies on success stories. Janine is working with the young (mate) couple Sydelle and Rohan in particular have made this film about Lloyd Maanyina from Zambia - a lumberjack wdfw and selling of charcoal that could one day begin to plant trees. Janine and the pair have together been out in rural areas and townships to promote the Sunshine Cinema. This portable cinema runs on solar energy and showing films on how to grow potatoes of tires, boiling water on chips bags and clean the water of old T-shirts. wdfw Here, for example. movie about potatoes and tires. In a rural was especially film for chips bags as solar cells a welcome trick, for the moment, the workers, who for generations have lived and worked wdfw on farms for minimum wdfw wage, room and board, now to pay for their electricity itself.
Seed Bheki I know from my work in the NGO Seed. Twelve years ago knew the kids in Michell's Plain is not where vegetables come from. Today there is an idyllic garden wdfw with permaculture up to elementary school Rockland's Primary. Here the children are familiar with herbs and vegetables and on hot days sit in the garden's wdfw two outdoor classrooms. Michell's Plain is a former township of 'colored' and today infamous as a hard place with a lot of banditry. Nonetheless, garden unlocked go - school and Seed strategy is cooperation and transparency - the youth must borrow the football field, all may enjoy the garden. Seed has today set many new shoots. Tony working on the project Food Freedom Movement who bring small vegetable gardens in townships. He is also the proud occupant of a futuristic cob house on the school's register, which should show visitors that you can live well, also in a future without fossil fuels. Jolli teach children from other schools in permaculture and shows tourists around the garden. And Bheki grow gourmet mushrooms for Pick'n Pay (same chain of supermarkets as Janine worked for) - project giving Seed a steady income and freedom from capricious funding. wdfw
"New Home" Bheki has invited me and three other curious chaos pilots for a visit to his homeland, in the township of Khayelitsha. The name means 'New Home' - Under apartheid, blacks were relocated from Cape Town to Khayelitsha. I get to see Bheki's home, his little shanty. In the shed there is just enough room for a single bed, a bookcase for books, kitchen equipment and a small electric hob. It cost him R250 (about 125 kr.) Per month to rent the shed. I am surprised that a young, visionary guy Bheki not have done more to shed. "I have improved roof", telling wdfw him to me. Before it was dripping on the floor so they had to put the pots and pans underneath in the rain. Now the water runs diagonally down the ceiling, wdfw along the wall and out. There are large patches of water on the ceiling.
Flying with eagles wdfw Bheki dream to save R100.000 (approximately 50,000 kr.) Up to build his own house. With own money