Cape Town's iconic Table Mountain will
officially be inaugurated as one of the New7wonders of Nature this December, and the City of Cape Town is going all out to celebrate the occasion! Expect a free concert for the public affair followed by a Table Mountain float joining a procession through the city. A big thanks must be made to SANParks for taking such good care of the South African ecological treasure!
On trend with going green, the SA Post Office plans on
procuring 90 electric scooters by 2015 in order to reduce it's CO
2 emissions. But they're not stopping there... By 2020 it plans on being carbon neutral - now here's a sustainability goal we can all aspire to!
Wouldn't it be awesome if you could volunteer at a NPO you're passionate about,
AND get paid to do it - I bet a lot more people would get to some serious do-gooding if that were the case...
cue the Vodacom Change the World programme. Vodacom will pay you a monthly salary if you dedicate your time, energy and skills to a local NPO for a year. It's as easy as approaching a NPO, gaining their support, agreeing on an action plan and submitting your application.
Finally, gather your friends and family and head down to the
annual AFDA Film Festival student showcase this weekend in Joburg, Cape Town, and Durban. More than 50 films will be screening, produced by the school's third and fourth year students. They're also going online this year, so go forth and interact.
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The WWF has welcomed The International Energy Agency's (IEA) World Energy Outlook 2012 report as being strong on the need to curb CO2 emissions and keep global warming below the critical 2°C, and offering options to address this with immediate action. The annual review of energy politics, resources and investments for the IEA's 28 member countries has particular relevance for coal-rich but water scarce South Africa. 
The first official inauguration of Table Mountain as one of the New7Wonders of Nature will take place on Saturday 1 December 2012 on Tafelberg Road, at the foot of the mountain. A public inauguration will take place during the City of Cape Town's free concert taking place at the Grand Parade on Sunday 2 December. 
Without vultures South Africa would see animal disease "spread like wildfire", first through the game parks and conservation areas and then, from there, into livestock, affecting the country's meat, dairy and wool production, says BirdLife SA director Gerhard Verdoorn. 
Owners of the luxury Lion Sands Private Game Reserve adjoining the Kruger Park, Nicholas and Robert More have teamed up with the national Stop Rhino Poaching campaign to increase funding of joint security operations in the surrounding 60 000ha Sabi Sand Game Reserve. The More family is allocating part of their annual tourism income to combat the scourge of rhino poaching in Sabi Sand. 
The Mossel Bay Environmental Partnership (MEP) and the Oyster Bay Reserve were recognised for their contributions to the community and the environment when the Gouritz Cluster Biosphere Reserve held its annual awards ceremony recently. 
Nedbank has announced an R8.3 million investment into the WWF-SA Sustainable Agriculture Programme, which has been launched to promote and support sustainable agricultural production practices in South Africa. 
Greenpop recently hosted the Sustain our Africa Youth Summit at the V&A Waterfront at which 187 pupils from four of Greenpop's top performing beneficiary schools came out for the day of green learning. 
The mailman is traditionally associated with a red bicycle. But when recently the SA Post Office's bicycle team rode from Pretoria to Lesotho, they were accompanied by two rechargeble battery-driven E-Max scooters which are currently being evaluated as mail-delivery scooters. 
Local chefs who are hungry for change have joined a new WWF-SASSI campaign to encourage consumers to be more aware of what seafood they are buying and eating. 
The South African National Parks (SANParks) has welcomed a 40 year conviction of a self-confessed rhino trader and smuggler, Thai national Chumlong Lemtongthai in the Kempton Park Magistrate Court in Johannesburg. 
