This sustainability month, efforts to preserve and sustain the Earth’s environment were forefront.
Nestlé East and Southern Africa Region presented From Linear to Circular, an art exhibition profiling three of its flagship sustainability initiatives that are part of its RE programme. The exhibition was held in Melrose Arch on June 7.
Programme MC Azania Mosaka said the planet’s water, soil and carbon storage are all intrinsically linked and are also critical to the sustainability of the food supply system that we rely on. “Our approach reflects this interconnectivity.
As World Environment Day was celebrated on 5 June the theme was ‘Only one Earth’ which reminds us of our role to effectively take action to save our planet Earth.
“Today, together, we are sharing in and exploring a convergence of storytelling and climate action. We want to make the intervention solutions proposed matter to communities, cities and the country.”
Nestlé corporate communications and public affairs director Saint-Francis Tohlang said we must protect, renew and restore not only natural ecosystems but take the lead in really advancing regenerative food systems.
“Regeneration is our sustainability promise as a company but in our region, this finds expression through our RE initiative. RE simply put is an initiative that focuses on three key pillars, rethink, reduce, repurpose. We will achieve all of this by transitioning to a circular economy (where no waste exists) that is vital in preserving and protecting our planet’s resources.”
Artist Dillon Marsh said, “Capturing landscapes has been part of my creative language, and I have explored in many works elements that show how we as a species engage both deliberately and unintentionally with our environment.
For this exhibition, I have introduced computer-generated imagery to reveal underlying dynamics that can’t be illustrated with photography alone. And these are real data points from the initiatives themselves, making them more tangible and almost palpable in the storytelling.”
Coordinator of Environmental Education in Schools Programmes, Xoliswa Fuyani proposed some key solutions to achieving circular economy as being; to keep everyone from all backgrounds informed about environmental issues, climate change and pollution. She also proposed bringing concepts that are familiar to people and making language, context and concept accessible to all.
Lecturer at the Department of Environmental, Water and Earth Science at Tshwane University of Technology, Dr Cathy Dzerefos said they have a framework for circular economy teachings to happen in the school national curriculum.
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