The South African National Roads Agency Limited´s (Sanral) may be in the news for reasons many residents of Gauteng province would rather forget, but staff at the parastal´s head office in the capital city of Pretoria have reason to celebrate.The head office – on Schoeman Street – has been given a G
Nearly a thousand industry stakeholders gathered in Copenhagen last Thursday for the biennial Copenhagen Fashion Summit, which launched in 2009 to coincide with the COP15 Climate Change Conference.
Greenpop, an NGO based in Cape Town, will be planting more than 5 000 indigenous and fruit trees in Livingstone, in Zambia, in an effort to help reforest a country that has the world´s second highest deforestation rate.The planting will take place over three weeks in July 2012, when Greenpop will jo
As an auto manufacturer showing leadership in reducing the greenhouse gas emissions of their vehicles, Ford Motor Company is also being recognized for its greenhouse gas leadership in manufacturing as well, and has received a Climate Leadership Award
Cape Town was one of four cities short-listed for the prestigious 2012 Sustainable Transport Awards held in Washington recently, with its non-motorised transport (NMT) and bus rapid transit network MyCiti receiving an honourable mention.
Not only does living off the grid make you more independent and reduce the size of your carbon footprint, but it can also be much cheaper for you in the long run!If you think about it, we are dependent on public services in so many ways: everything from the removal of our waste – toilet and kitchen
Words by Emily van RijswijckThe University of Stellenbosch (SU) in the Western Cape has launched a cycling project to promote greener, more sustainable living on campus and, at the same time, resolve some of the university’s traffic problems.
Switch off to switch on You might think that social networking sites like Twitter and Facebook keep you socially connected, but often the opposite is true. (Just how many online friends do you know? Exactly.) So, Earth Hour is the perfect time to get together with friends and switch off all comput
Sixty minutes to save the world! Are you up for the challenge? We shed some light on what Earth Hour is all about.
Words by Rachel BriantThere are certain UK banks that invest only in that which is good, green and clean – namely Triodos (http://www.triodos.co.uk) and the Co-operative (http://www.goodwithmoney.co.uk) – but it is not immediately clear which local banks follow suit. Nedbank advertises itself as a ‘