A Hub for greener opportunities

THE GreenHub at Blue Lagoon has undergone a revamp. Durban Green Corridor’s Jenny Chetty said the reason for the change was because people didn’t realise that it was also an information centre for the non-profit organisation.

The GreenHub is now solely an eco-tourism information centre allowing people to learn about all the different activities available from the Durban Green Corridors’s three adventure centres at Inanda, iSithumba and the uMgeni River.

“There is more to Durban than just the sea. We want to encourage locals to look around them and discover the amazing sites and sounds of our province,” said Chetty.

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Launched in 2010, Durban Green Corridors in partnership with the eThekwini Municipality, offer a variety of outdoor and cultural activities to tourists and locals.

They are also engaged in numerous community programmes and provide schools and corporates opportunities to learn and care for their local environment through the Durban Partnership against Plastic Pollution (D-PAPP), a local movement intent on eliminating plastic pollution around the city.

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Keeping to the eco-friendly theme, the GreenHub is an environmentally friendly building said Sifiso Mngoma, the NPO’s social media and website coordinator.

“Everything about our office has been designed to be eco-friendly. Reclaimed wood was used in the building; our water comes from a Jojo tank, and the office is powered by solar electricity with the building was designed to let the maximum amount of natural sunshine in during the day so that we don’t need to use lights,” said Mngoma.