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SA businesses look to solar as energy costs increase 27 Aug 2013 | 07:48 pm
Load shedding and escalating energy costs have had significant impacts on businesses in South Africa. Whilst South Africa’s Renewable Energy Independent Power Producer Procurement Programme (REIPPP), ...
Fallen civilizations linked to climate change 27 Aug 2013 | 04:00 pm
Recent research suggests that the rise and fall of the ancient world’s civilisations may have been due to a changing climate. “Historians and archaeologists have invoked catastrophic volcanic eruptio...
Winners of SA’s first Sustainable Farm Award announced 26 Aug 2013 | 06:26 pm
Nedbank, WWF-SA, the Illovo Planters Group (IPG) and the Eston Show committee launched the inaugural Nedbank Sustainable Farm Award at the 2013 Nedbank Eston Show, which took place this past weekend i...
Forming partnerships for change in Cape Town's oldest township 26 Aug 2013 | 06:04 pm
“PETCO is all about Partnerships, Responsibility and Environmental Integrity” says PETCO CEO, Cheri Scholtz. A ground-breaking partnership has been formed with Sappi ReFibre, Georgetown University’s M...
Celebrating milestones in sustainable seafood sourcing 22 Aug 2013 | 07:59 pm
Since introducing its sustainable seafood policy in 2008, Woolworths has achieved a number of significant milestones and is continually working to raise awareness and help customers make informed choi...
Calling all white lion protectors 22 Aug 2013 | 06:31 pm
The pioneering White Lion Leadership Academy is a CALL TO ACTION - equipping each participant with the lion-hearted values and intuitive courage to take their enhanced and heightened awareness into ha...
Wrecked Fukushima plant leaking radioactive water 20 Aug 2013 | 04:43 pm
Contaminated water with dangerously high levels of radiation is leaking from a storage tank at Japan's crippled Fukushima nuclear plant, the most serious setback to the clean up of the worst nuclear a...
Philippi farmers speak up 16 Aug 2013 | 01:56 pm
Nazeer Sonday, spokesperson for the PHA for Food & Farming Campaign, writes a letter to Mayor Patricia de Lille about the ‘heart of Cape Town’. The opposition to the development of housing on the bes...
Wild and healthy weeds: gifts from nature 16 Aug 2013 | 12:22 pm
“Did you know that wild foods have at least 10 times more nutrients than cultivated foods?” So said Tracy Armbruster in her blurb about the Wild Foods courses she conducts in Villiersdorp. I have alw...
True food enlivens body and soul 16 Aug 2013 | 12:05 am
I was privileged to meet the creater and owner of Organic at Heart, “a true food restaurant” in Plumstead, where we recently enjoyed a great staff meeting. If you look at the menu and notice that they...
