A Greenprint for a Blue Planet

Greenprint is consistently chosen to represent SA as the flagship publication at conferences, launches, summits and other high profile events:

• * GEF - one of the most high profile meetings on earth: 1 500 International Heads of State and Ministers received Greenprint at the GEF congress, held in Cape Town in August 2006. Some 3.5 billion dollars of international funding was allocated at this meeting. Greenprint, considered to be a flagship for SA, was the only magazine chosen by Government and the UN to be distributed there.

• * Endorsed by Dept of Environmental Affairs, it is placed on the desks of all Government Ministers and other key decision makers

• * 800 copies were distributed by the City of Cape Town to all delegates at the international five day ICLEI Environmental Conference covering urban environmental and planning issues.

• 350 copies were provided for delegates at the IAIASA conference, attendedby  professionals involved in the built environment - architects, engineers, planners, etc. The international PREA conference arranged by Wits Architectural Faculty distributed 200 copies.

• Responsible Container Management Association and SA National Roads (SANRAL) gave a copy to every delegate at their national launches and international conferences.

• Working on Fire has distributed Greenprint to schools throughout SA, along with wall charts and games. They have used their distribution network for Greenprint's extensively researched energy posters, which have been incorporated into the school syllabus, as have many other ideas published in Greenprint and, prior to 2000, Earthyear.

• Wessa (Wildlife & Environment Society) distributes educational resources to schools where they have outreach programmes.

• Collect-a-Can distributes puzzles and wall charts to schools in the Gauteng area.

• Metrorail sponsors and distibutes Greenprint educational board games, and distributes some 20 000 extra copies on urban trains in the Cape, especially the Edutrain which takes school children and teachers on sponsored educational trips from the CBD to Simon's Town.

• The Paraffin Safety Association distributes copies to delegates at International Child Safety Conferences.
  

Readership includes environmental scientists, government departments, corporate and university libraries and higher education teachers. Copies have been purchased by Hunters Hotels for all their lodges, by Bushmanskloof Relais Chateau, The Vineyard Hotel and Spa, Motswari Private Game Lodge, Winchester Lodges and Rovos Rail. Greenprint is the only magazine they have in their suites and lounges at these five star establishments.