Well it's Design Indaba time again, and I'm very excited to see what eco-organic designs are on offer this time around. Green design is happening in a BIG way around the rest of the world so what is going on in South Africa?

I'm hoping to visit the expo tomorrow to find a few answers. In the meantime I've googled for "design indaba" and found that the expo is aiming to be carbon neutral again, which is really cool.

Design Indaba 10 carries the "Carbon Standard" stamp so the resources used during the event will be offset against planting trees. They plan to offset not only the space, energy and paper used by the event at the Cape Town International Convention Centre, but also the carbon emitted to fly the speakers to the event.

In fact Design Indaba organiser, Interactive Africa, is one of the organisations that founded the Carbon Standard!

Through supporting the "Carbon Standard" at the 2006 Indaba, over 2000 trees were planted in projects around the country, including 500 trees for Soweto.

Doing a quick technorati on "design indaba" reveals, as blogged by cherryflava, recycled carry-bags made from an old ABSA billboard advert. It's not clear from the post whether the expo carry-bags are given out for free to visitors, if they are only for delegates of the indaba, or whether they're on sale to the general public.

This and hopefully some more green design tidbits revealed tomorrow...