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| Jennifer Bruce Millions of Rands and countless company hours are spent annually on Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) projects, yet it is often a company's best-kept secret... read |
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| Exiting social investment programmes can be a highly sensitive and difficult process for donors, grantees and beneficiaries... read |
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| Roger Simons, regional sustainability director at MCI and president of the Green Meetings Industry Council (GMIC), will headline this year's Event Greening Forum (EGF) Conference... read |
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| Barloworld's commitment to youth development is reflected in all aspects of the business. The company is involved in several youth development initiatives in SA... read |
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| Tom Jackson Cape Town-based social impact incubator RLabs is rolling out 12 RLabsU campuses across Cape Town, offering free programmes aimed at developing digital entrepreneurs... read |
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| MySchool MyVillage MyPlanet has announced a new partnership through which loot.co.za, one of South Africa's top-five online retailers, will join the fundraising initiative that raises millions of rand for schools and charities every year... read |
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| Media24's educational program WeCan24, a multimedia digital platform training schools to master a range of journalism skills, recently embarked on a community initiative renovating schools in the Western Cape... read |
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| Kaleidoscope recently launched an Apple-based technology centre for the blind in Worcester in the Cape. The centre aims to empower the blind and visually impaired with employability skills for the open labour market... read |
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| 700-year-old African soil procedure could help offset global warming... read |
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| Don Pinnock Who owns South Africa's wild animals? It's a question of life and death for many creatures that wander out of the Kruger National Park... read |
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| Leigh Andrews 'Shared-value sustainability' was a hot topic on the third and final day of the Consumer Goods Forum, with insights shared by Nestlé CEO and former Consumer Goods Forum co-chair, Paul Bulcke. read |
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| As one of the primary pollinators in the world, bees are not only important to human survival, they also play a central role in the evolution of the earth's ecology... read |
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| As part of its 'Picture This' campaign, Sony Pictures Television's Networks has launched the 'Picture This Festival for the Environment'... read |
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| Zamanzima Mazibuko With South Africa being a water-stressed country and the recent drought propelling the country into a panic, there is an evident necessity for more efficient application of water conservation and management... read |
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| Derick van der Walt Chantell Ilbury uses a sports analogy to discuss South Africa's competitiveness and highlights factors South Africa must take note of if it wants to be part of the global playing field... read |
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| Pumla Tuko Ekasi Green Project shares its vegetables and knowledge with the community... read |
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| The Casual Day project, which raises funds for services for persons with disabilities, is also involved in influencing government's policy and legislation framework around disability... read |
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| Trade and Industry Minister Rob Davies has launched the first phase of the revitalised Botshabelo Industrial Park in the Free State. Minister Davies said the promotion of industrialisation and industrial development should go together with radical inclusive economic growth... read |
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| Nokwazi Mzobe The call for responsible, sustainable and equitable business practices is getting louder and any responsible business leader should be acting on it... read |
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| Desire Chiwandire and Louise Vincent On paper, people with disabilities in South Africa enjoy the same rights as anyone else to an education, whether at school or university... read |
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| Kate Walker Architecture firm LEVS architecten champions non-fired bricks for the design and development of Dogon, Mali... read |
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| The finalists in the 2015/2016 AfriSam-SAIA Award for Sustainable Architecture + Innovation have been announced... read |
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| The contract for the heat tracing system design and installation for the Xina Solar One power plant near Pofadder in the Northern Cape has been awarded to eltherm South Africa... read |
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| The Solar Impulse 2 aircraft flew into New York past the Statue of Liberty completing the US leg on Saturday, 11 June, of a record-breaking bid to circumnavigate the Earth powered only by solar energy... read |
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| Richard G. 'Bugs' Stevens The new comprehensive World Atlas of Artificial Night Sky Brightness has just appeared in Science Advances... read |
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| John Sanei I was inspired by Elon Musk in his recent interview at the Code Conference, where he was saying that games in the next five years will be pretty much exactly like real life... read |
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