Environmental Monitoring Group (EMG) is a non-profit organisation based in Cape Town, South Africa.
We believe that fairness and justice must be at the heart of any effort to conserve and protect the natural environment, which sustains life on Earth. We aim to facilitate processes that lead to healthier, more respectful relationships with each other and the environment.
Society’s impact on the environment is a political act. Decisions about how people use natural resources are usually made by the powerful few for their own benefit, while negative impacts are felt largely by the poor and marginalised. These power imbalances are bad for our society and for the environment.
EMG believes that a strong civil society is necessary for any social, political or economic change. The strength of civil society is not dependent on its engagement with a particular issue, but on its ability to learn, mobilise, network, analyse power dynamics and embody and practice the very values it advocates.
>ARTICLE: Inequality in service distribution and environmental racism embedded in access to water and sanitation [action 24]
>press statement: COVID-19: Dirty water for sale in rural communities [ SAWC / CALS]
>BUILDING LOCAL FOOD NODES USING TECHNOLOGY:
>WEBINAR: watch FARMERS KHULUMA [TALK] with Albin Ponnert (Sweden) and Nomonde Buthelezi (SA)
> PODCAST: LISTEN HERE
> READ: BLOG “Farmers reclaim their markets – food is ours!”
>FACT SHEET: GOVERNMENT OF WATER
>COMIC: read / download:
NOMA AND THE CURSE OF THE 3 C’S
