Energy-saving measures saw Absa Bank save more than 55-million kWH of energy last year, said head of corporate sustainability Miguel Martins.
"The motto is, ‘party hard, tread lightly’," said Stacey Fulton, client services manager for the Rocking the Daisies Music & Lifestyle Festival.
Michelangelo is one of the partners in a joint non-profit venture that conducts free green audits on businesses, schools, hotels, factories and more.
Eskom managed to mitigate the controversy by forming the Ingula partnership with BirdLife South Africa and the Middelpunt Wetlands Trust.
The Renu-Karoo Veld Restoration project in Prince Albert has set up a model of how to resuscitate a degraded environment using sustainable practices.
Trying to save the rabbit means we are developing an ecosystem for other plants and animals that will have socioeconomic benefits for communities.
Getting a licence to generate electricity can take as long as three years and several companies are competing for the opportunity.
Climate change is a fact and needed now are ways to deal with it that can coexist with development.
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/ 30 October 2008
The South African Broadcasting Corporation released its annual report and financial results earlier this month, raising more questions than answers.
The construction of a R46m plant at the Omnia Group’s Sasolburg fertiliser facility will reduce its nitrous oxide and nitrogen oxides emissions.
Many of the energy-saving initiatives introduced by management at Backsberg Estate Cellars cc have been small but significant.
Makana Meadery in Grahamstown combines local knowledge and scientific know-how to save energy and reduce its carbon footprint.
The South African National Roads Agency decided to save a giant Outeniqua yellowwood tree during major road construction.
Landowners require guidance with wildlife conflict as part of their overall environmental management plans.
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/ 10 October 2007
The South Africa Environment Outlook report highlights a number of emerging environmental risks. These are environmental problems that are not yet fully understood and there are no comprehensive responses to the challenges they pose. Serious environmental challenges which the report identifies as requiring a political response over the next five to 10 years include climate change, ozone layer depletion, acid rain and genetically modified organisms.
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/ 10 October 2007
The South Africa Environment Outlook report highlights a general lack of understanding of the links between human and environmental health. If ÂÂnatural resources are allowed to regenerate to sustain ecosystems, people will benefit. While people need access to improved services and amenities, they become vulnerable when air and water quality decline, land is degraded and natural resources are over-exploited.
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/ 10 October 2007
In a nutshell, the South Africa Environment Outlook report warns that the environment is deteriorating while poor people still face unemployment and poverty and the rich ensure that their impact on natural resources is higher than the global average. The assessment is not new.