Centre turns learners green

The Delta Environmental Centre is empowering children to become more green.

Rich countries will suffer unless they help poor

Rich countries need to transfer funds to developing countries in order for both groups to reduce their carbon emissions significantly, says the UN.

One UK family's war on waste

Fed up with rising energy bills and an uncomfortable home, Rose Watson took some simple steps to green her home, with a positive effect on her budget.

Necessity is the mother of solar invention

Teljoy’s Green Credit scheme enables customers to reduce their electricity bills by more than 30% while the instalments are almost equal to the saving

Serving the environment

The EnviroServ method eliminates odours and kills pathogens because it involves high temperatures during composting

Nedbank's green roots go deep

One of Nedbank’s primary areas of environmental focus is climate change

Every creature has its place

The Greening the Future judges commended the school’s efforts, saying they were impressed by its ambitious and innovative approach to the environment

Little green fingers

When the Birches Pre-Primary School garden and environmental project started in 1993, few learners showed interest.

Now is the time to stand up and be heard

Ordinary citizens need to make themselves heard to force the world to commit to a binding climate change treaty at the end of the year

50/50 postponement alarms supporters

Launched 25 years ago, 50/50 is the world’s longest-running environmental series and the SABC’s longest-running feature

Setting a global example

Woolworths was the first retailer to join the World Wide Fund for Nature’s (WWF) water neutral scheme

Turning over a new leaf

Food & Trees for Africa is a greening organisation working to address climate change

Raising a glass to the earth

Backsberg wine estate is scrutinising its business to find new ways to save energy

Keeping an eye on the climate

Judges commended the NBI for its successful work in the areas of climate change and the environment

Done and dusted

Five years ago the Paardekraal Tailings Dam, 5km north-east of Rustenburg, was a dust bowl

We were born to halt climate change

All the talking about climate change have resulted in a net achievement of less than nothing: global emissions just keep going up.

A flicker of change in the world

This year was the first time the Worldwide Fund for Nature (WWF) launched an official Earth Hour campaign in South Africa.

The panel for the planet

The 2009 judges' panel

Acknowledging those who try to make a difference

This year the Mail & Guardian celebrates the sixth anniversary of the Greening the Future awards in the same week as Arbor Week.