PLEASE NOTE: The Smart Living Challenge Zone is no longer on display at the Two Oceans Aquarium. You can learn more about how you can live sustainably here, and learn more about the City of Cape Town's sustainability initiatives here.
Last month, to help launch the Two Oceans Aquarium's new Smart Living Challenge Zone, an interactive digital learning/play zone that was developed in collaboration with the City Of Cape Town, we organised a Twitter chat with co-hosts the WWF South Africa, GreenPop and Rethink the Bag.
We asked our panel and the wider Twittersphere questions about eco-friendly living centered around water, waste, energy and biodiversty, with the aim of generating new and imaginative ideas that you, our audience, could implement at home in order to have a lighter, friendlier footprint.
The key take out from the day was this: smart living starts at home.
Click here for our Twitter tips on energy and biodiviersity.
How many of these smart-living tactics for water and waste management have you, or will you, employ at home?
Q1: How do you conserve water in your everyday life? #SmartLiving @rethinkthebag @GreenpopSA @WWFSouthAfrica pic.twitter.com/KESFtBNcrM
— Two Oceans Aquarium (@2OceansAquarium) December 8, 2015
Shortest showers (beware shaving in shower wastes water…)trickle tap for hand wash & teeth cleaning #SmartLiving https://t.co/dm2LIqkCQR
— Rethink the Bag (@rethinkthebag) December 8, 2015
@2OceansAquarium @WWFSouthAfrica It's as easy as checking faucets & pipes for leaks + repairing them #SmartLiving
— Miss Earth SA (@missearth_sa) December 8, 2015
@2OceansAquarium @rethinkthebag @GreenpopSA @WWFSouthAfrica Have meetings with no bottled water - takes water to make bottle #smartliving
— SANCOR (@SANCORcommunity) December 8, 2015
Become a meat minimiser and save water! #smartliving https://t.co/Kh5vmxGCec
— Lauren O'Donnell (@LifeofLol) December 8, 2015
Our team reduces the amount of meat & dairy they eat. 1 hamburger = same water as showering for 2 mths! #smartliving https://t.co/l4ps6OUDo8
— Greenpop (@GreenpopSA) December 8, 2015
@2OceansAquarium I collect rainwater in buckets to use to water plants #smartliving @WWFSASSI making every drop count
— Pavs Pillay (@pavspillay) December 8, 2015
Report water wastage, burst pipes and by-law transgressions! Call 086 010 3089, SMS 31373 or email waterTOC@capetown.gov.za #SmartLiving
— Two Oceans Aquarium (@2OceansAquarium) December 8, 2015
@2OceansAquarium @rethinkthebag @GreenpopSA @WWFSouthAfrica I only have succulents in my patio garden, don't need as much water #smartliving
— Rita Adele Steyn (@ritasteyn) December 8, 2015
@2OceansAquarium @GreenpopSA Capture rain water from gutters to use in the garden and invest in a rain water tank. #SmartLiving
— WWF South Africa (@WWFSouthAfrica) December 8, 2015
Q2: How can we reduce waste sent from homes to landfill? #SmartLiving @rethinkthebag @WWFSouthAfrica @GreenpopSA pic.twitter.com/iID9Vbl1AV
— Two Oceans Aquarium (@2OceansAquarium) December 8, 2015
@2OceansAquarium @rethinkthebag @WWFSouthAfrica @GreenpopSA Buying products with less packaging equals less waste to landfills #smartliving
— Miss Earth SA (@missearth_sa) December 8, 2015
Purchase responsibly! Buy in bulk, use refills, avoid disposable items. #SmartLiving
— Two Oceans Aquarium (@2OceansAquarium) December 8, 2015
Consciously reduce packaging when shopping & always recycle what can be. Reduce, Reuse, #refuseplasticshoppingbags, RESPECT #SmartLiving
— Rethink the Bag (@rethinkthebag) December 8, 2015
We take real coffee mugs to coffee shops and fill those up, instead of taking single use plastic ones #SmartLiving https://t.co/Ohy3xzfNf5
— Greenpop (@GreenpopSA) December 8, 2015
I love my @BioBokashi. No food waste to landfill and I help the @OZCFarm with their compost. #SmartLiving https://t.co/N67SLC7xEM
— Katja Rockstroh (@Rockkatz) December 8, 2015
Bust the need for balloons, ditch the bottled water, say no thank you to straws, and phase out single-use plastic in every form #SmartLiving
— Two Oceans Aquarium (@2OceansAquarium) December 8, 2015
Reuse, re-purpose - use things for other things - tin cans as pots for plants, yoghurt tubs to share food with family #SmartLiving
— Helen Lockhart (@2OceansHelen) December 8, 2015
@WWFSouthAfrica @2OceansAquarium @rethinkthebag @GreenpopSA Give experiences, not things, spoil people w\delicious consumables #smartliving
— SANCOR (@SANCORcommunity) December 8, 2015
