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Michelle Nel

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Michelle Nel

Discarding used plastics is avoidable

The <em>Greening the Future</em> judges praised Petco’s bottle-to-bottle approach.

Education meets job creation

Education meets job creation

Schools and institutions — <b> Winner: JNF Walter Sisulu Environmental Centre</b>.

Cosatu wants to have a say in the green revolution

Cosatu has commissioned the National Labour and Economic Development Institute (Naledi) to research the links between labour and climate change.

Minister ‘aware of ecology’

Susan Shabangu, the minister of mineral resources, agrees that mining should not take place in ecologically sensitive areas.

The destruction of wetlands affects water availability, biodiversity, climate stability and the wellbeing of all life, including people’s livelihoods. Photo: File

Fight is on to protect biodiverse wetland

Some 54% of Mpumalanga is affected by mining or prospecting, but civil society is drawing the line at Chrissiesmeer, writes <b>Michelle Nel</b>.

Building real homes

Winner — Enterprise Development Award: <b>Futuregrowth Asset Management and Nurcha</b>.

The fields of dreams

The fields of dreams

Winner – Sports Development Award: <b>Absa Spaces for Sport</b>.

Giving filmmakers a fishing rod

Giving filmmakers a fishing rod

Runner-up — Enterprise Development Award: <b>Absa and Big Fish School of Digital Filmmaking</b>.

Making sensible beer

Making sensible beer

Water care award, winner: <b>SABMiller</b>

Going flat out to beat gangsterism

The Investing in the Future judges praised the unique developmental aspect of the Mr Price Mitchells Plain soccer programme.

Done and dusted

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

On the green path

The appointment of a new DG of the Department of Environmental Affairs and Tourism last month coincided with Cabinet’s approval of the NFSD.

A way to keep the dust down

Particularly at this time of year, dust is the curse of desperate housewives. It is also the cause of sinus problems and lung irritations.

Bringing law to people (and animals)

In the real world justice is mainly for the wealthy. Do you have a spare R1 000 an hour for lawyer’s fees? This is not even what the top firms charge their corporate clients. And…

Dreams do come true

Jubilation was written all over the faces of this year’s 14 recipients of the much-coveted Nelson Mandela Scholarship for post-graduate studies abroad. A Unilever initiative, the…

Lie of the land

Four years ago the National Association of Conservancies of South Africa (Nacsa) did not exist. Now it operates in seven provinces, with 750 conservancies, protecting about…

Grey, but getting greener

First National Bank’s Bank City headquarters are smart, grey and, one might think, not particularly green. That’s where you would be wrong. As brightly coloured as the air…

No madcaps here

In 1991, the then Bophuthatswana Parks Board launched the Madikwe project by commandeering a few army planes to fly a pack of journalists up to a farmhouse in Herman Charles…

The great vaccination debate

Some parents are deciding not to have their children immunised, but the World Bank believes that after clean water, immunisation is the most cost-effective public health measure…