By Lucas Lawrence The Milnerton Lagoon is a beautiful stretch of water located between the Milnerton Mainland and Woodbridge Island in the City of Cape Town. Its sandy beach boasts spectacular views of the mountains and the ocean making it popular among locals and visitors alike. However, being situated downstream from nearby Potsdam wastewater treatment…

Today the 5th of June, we commemorate World Environment Day 2023 by launching the website for the research project “Nexusing Water, Energy and Food to Increase resilience in the Cape Town Metropolitan Area”. World Environment Day was first held in 1973 at the ‘Stockholm Conference on the Human Environment’ by the United Nations, seeking to integrate…

In December 2022, the project consortium came together in Cape Town for the mid-term project meeting. Besides taking stock and devising the next steps for the project, we participated at the NRF-NUFFIC-NWO side event at the World Science Forum, met with local stakeholders and visited our case studies. During our visit at the Lynedoch Ecovillage,…