urban sprout is a growing blog-style online community, featuring daily green blogs, events and a directory that focuses on organic and eco-friendly products.
We deal with issues that are important to those with a sense of environmental & social responsibility - organic food, climate change, ethical consumerism, sustainable lifestyles and environmental justice.
We hope to change the world one small step at a time.
urban sprout is powered by
turbosprout (aka Glen) erstwhile organic veggie salesman, intrepid garden gnome known to spend Saturdays turning compost; fanatical about relocating snails, caterpillars and others from his perennial kale; enjoys the outdoors, obsessing over intricate details that have no bearing on the greater scheme of things, collector of other people’s trash, and owner of an RSS world domination control panel, brings to urban sprout a balance and sense of calm as well as devastating techie skills.
sproutingforth (aka Wanda) former opera-singing health food nut, who periodically endeavours to take up yoga, even though she cannot touch her toes; avid reader of contemporary fiction who re-uses biodegradable nappy liners at least twice, never follows a recipe, although some of us wish she would, has boundless enthusiasm and cranks up the volume to Bach and Vivaldi whenever alone in the car, brings to urban sprout a touch of madness, garbled marketing skills and a flair for the dramatic.
melanie is a hyper-active organizational whiz. She grew up in a family of activists and has always fought for ethical humanity. She tries to be aware of her own choices and fights against her own unthinking behavior. She has the early stages of a veggie garden, a large compost heap and 500 happy worms. When not answering emails, adding listings and doing admin for urban sprout, she spends time with her daughter and represents her class in the PTA. Loves community involvement and alternative forms of economics and freeconomics.
Contributors to urban sprout:
girlsprout (aka Tarryn) vegetarian English major with a passion for her pet lizard and Orwellian dystopia. Known to spend her time dancing with wild abandon to good progressive rock, protesting against the many uncool things happening around us, singing loudly to people in the traffic, wandering Wits barefoot, and cooking up a storm. When not adding oodles of listings to urban sprout, she teaches kids to tell the difference between malapropisms and metaphors.
dax (aka Dax) recently woke up. After nearly 30 years of falling for propaganda, he realised that the way we live is not sustainable, nor equitable, and that humans have been tricked into digging their own graves and paying for the honour. He decided that reducing his carbon footprint and scaring his friends with facts about our rampant destruction of the planet was not enough and so Relax with Dax became an undercover green blog where he passes on interesting information and shares his thoughts on green issues.
estelle (aka Estelle) born in the northern suburbs of Cape Town, I was brought up in a thoroughly conventional way in suburbia. A greenie at heart, living in a not-so-green system has become quite a challenge. After being retrenched, I decided to embark on a journey of self-discovery and learning. I joined the eco-village of Khula Dhamma to learn the ins and outs of eco-friendly, sustainable living in the most practical ways, and also to explore the different possibilities for personal growth and sharing.
