Desmond D’Sa has rallied the community of Durban south in a fight for health
Nozipho Mxakato-Diseko is working to advance the position of developing countries
Rhino Conservation Award – Winner: Endangered Wildlife Trust Rhino Project
Negotiations for a new protocol to reduce carbon emissions have been slow but temperatures continue to rise.
The article "Bestsellers give kinky sex a bad rap" (Friday, July 13 to 19) made my blood boil, writes Michelle Nel.
Founder Robert Baden-Powell inspired the scouting movement with the injunction to "leave this place a little better than we found it".
Greenpop’s greening campaigns include fun events, art and music. It plants trees on behalf of individuals who want to invest in a greener future.
Whatever the government decides about fracking in the Karoo, a small group of volunteers has succeeded in broadening the debate.
Seventy percent of profits from the Noah Soap programme goes directly to the creators; the rest is used for operational costs such as glycerine.
In a rural village in Marianhill in KwaZulu-Natal, 50 households with no electricity have been kitted out with solar home-lighting kits.
Schools and institutions — <b> Winner: JNF Walter Sisulu Environmental Centre</b>.
The design for the store is a departure from conventional inverted styles that isolate customers from the outdoors.
The <em>Greening the Future</em> judges praised Petco’s bottle-to-bottle approach.
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Cosatu has commissioned the National Labour and Economic Development Institute (Naledi) to research the links between labour and climate change.
Some 54% of Mpumalanga is affected by mining
or prospecting, but civil society is drawing the line
at Chrissiesmeer, writes <b>Michelle Nel</b>.
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/ 25 February 2011
Susan Shabangu, the minister of mineral resources, agrees that mining should not take place in ecologically sensitive areas.
Winner — Enterprise Development Award: <b>Futuregrowth Asset Management and Nurcha</b>.
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/ 1 November 2010
Runner-up — Enterprise Development Award: <b>Fetola & Associates — Old Mutual Legends Programme</b>.
Winner – Sports Development Award: <b>Absa Spaces for Sport</b>.
Runner-up — Enterprise Development Award: <b>Absa and Big Fish School of Digital Filmmaking</b>.
Most innovative environmental strategy, winner: <b>Pick n Pay</b>.
Water care award, winner: <b>SABMiller</b>
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/ 2 November 2009
The Investing in the Future judges praised the unique developmental aspect of the Mr Price Mitchells Plain soccer programme.
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/ 9 September 2008
Establishing a national park and biosphere reserve along the Wild Coast makes a lot of sense. So why have there been so many hiccups along
the way?
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/ 5 September 2008
Particularly at this time of year, dust is the curse of desperate housewives. It is also the cause of sinus problems and lung irritations.
In 2007, Woolworths removed hydrogenated vegetable oils and 31,6 tonnes of salt from its recipes.
Even as a seasoned "greenie" with an eye on recycling initiatives, I didn’t realise you could recycle Tetra Pak cartons.
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/ 25 October 2007
Best known as a firm of savvy asset managers, Allan Gray recently completed a smart financial manoeuvre, involving the personal generosity of its founder, to create a vehicle for BEE. When this transaction is combined with the intended staff-share scheme, 27% of Allan Gray will be black-owned.
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/ 25 October 2007
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 what of the lawyers themselves? They might have entered the profession dreaming of striving for justice and defending the innocent, but end up stuck in plush corporate offices helping the rich get richer.
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 30-million hectares of land. "That is five times more than SANParks and the provinces control, and we do it on no budget at all," says Nacsa chairperson Anthony Duigan.
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 Bosman country. They were treated to a lavish feast and spun a seductive tale about the birth of a brand new game reserve.
"Stop crime." "Convict corrupt politicians", say the election posters. I have yet to see "Down with nukes" or "Free factory-farmed animals." But a visit to the offices or web pages of the main Election 2004 contenders shows that some political parties have fairly decent environmental policies. <i>Earthyear</i> sets out the environmental manifestos of the major contenders.