Closing the Cycleby Bicycle
One thing I’ve learnt on my trips to ferret out stories for COUNTRY LIFE is that heroes don’t all wear capes. Some ride bicycles. Take, for example, Neville Crompton of Southbroom on the KwaZulu-Natal South Coast. A quiet, self-effacing man, Neville cycles three times a week on a mission that is the most honest-to-goodness model of a circular green economy I have encountered. But before we get to Neville’s story, there’s a wider context to consider.
On 22 April it’s the 50th anniversary of Earth Day Network (EDN), said to be the world’s largest environment-conservation movement. Unsurprisingly, this year’s theme is Climate Action. At the start of the year, EDN listed a dozen resolutions we humans could make to reduce our impact on the climate. One is especially pertinent to this
