The keynote speaker at the recent Greening the Future 2003 Awards ceremony was the CEO of South African National Parks, Mavuso Msimang. After being at the helm for the past six years, he has a wealth of experience in balancing the demands of sustaining natural resources and making an organisation profitable.
The winners of Greening the Future 2003 Awards are projects or initiatives that make a difference — both within the companies or organisations submitting the entries and to the lives of people they have a relationship with outside the company. Read who came in with flying green colours.
Living a fit and healthy lifestyle looks set to have its financial benefits, thanks to a Technology and Human Resources for Industry Programme research project being conducted at the University of Cape Town Medical Research Centre’s unit for exercise science and sports medicine.
In a joint initiative with the French government, the Paris Chamber of Commerce and the National Research Foundation, Technikon Pretoria is paving the way for bigger and better communication networks.
The sulphate and neutralisation group of the water programme at the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research’s (CSIR) division of water, environment and forestry technology has been the fortunate receiver of Thrip funding for the past four to five years.