19 Mar 2013

Environment & Conservation

 

Do not waste that water!

We live in a country in which water is not as plentiful as we'd like, so it makes sense that conserving water is the theme of Green Office Week (GOW). GOW this year takes place from Monday, 22 to Friday, 26 April.

TopTV wants to broadcast porn, and many people and religious groups don't want them to - so it seems there is a TopTV porn boycott looming. In the other camp, there are also many people who are quite happy if the station wins its case and is able to take the porn route.

Looking to the heavens, the SKA Organisation Project Office has issued its pre-construction phase request for proposals. The RFP is an invitation for international consortia to bid for work packages to design the various components of the SKA, such as antennas, receivers, signal processing systems, data transport and high performance computers.

Back on earth, if you're content, we're content here at Bizcommunity. We have been ahead of the curve for years in providing an unmatched vehicle for all of you to get your message out there.

Finally, on the petrol-head front, our glamorous motoring editor Henrie Geyser reckons the new Isuzu KB range scores in the glamour stakes and for those out there who love two wheels rather than four, we are now covering motorcycling news... and to start you off is the new KTM 1190 Adventure range. If this doesn't make your eyes water, then...

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Environment & Conservation

'It's Africa's Time' focuses on Ghana, South Africa
In Episode 6, 'It's Africa's Time' travels to Ghana and South Africa, to visit interventions that are uplifting the standard of living for local communities, advancing the development agenda of these countries and contributing significantly towards the achievement of the UN Millennium Development Goals. Read more >>

Konica Minolta SA plants 2000 trees around Polokwane, Kimberley
Konica Minolta SA has been supporting South Africa's national greening and food gardening social enterprise, Food & Trees for Africa (FTFA), for five years and recently planted 2013 trees at impoverished schools in the Polokwane and Kimberley regions. Read more >>

SANAS launches new accreditation programme
The South African National Accreditation System (SANAS) has launched its latest accreditation programme for the accreditation of greenhouse gas (GHG) validation and verification bodies for use in related forms of GHG recognition against the requirements of SANS ISO 14065. Read more >>

If you're content, we're content
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Climate change

Metair builds two electric cars
Metair, which manufactures and distributes automotive products to original equipment manufacturers (OEMs)‚ for the replacement and aftermarket segments has built two electric cars. Read more >>


Conservation

Conserving water the theme of Green Office Week
Green Office Week (GOW) reminds us that sustainability issues are top of the agenda and whether your organisation is large or small, green behaviours have to form a part of everyone's work habits. Read more >>


Environmental management

SA signs treaty to protect coastal ecosystem
Government ministers from South Africa, Angola and Namibia have signed an environmental treaty that will promote a coordinated regional approach to the long-term conservation and protection of the Benguela Current Large Marine Ecosystem (BCLME). Read more >>

'Thirsty for Action' raises awareness about water conservation
In honour of National Water Week (18-24 March 2013) and the UN's World Water Day (22 March), Woolworths and MySchool has launched a competition called 'Thirsty for Action', which is aimed at raising awareness about the need for every child to help protect South Africa's water resources. Read more >>


Wildlife management

&Beyond goes beyond... for our rhinos
[Brian Berkman: contributing editor, travel] The staggering increase in rhino poaching globally has many corporations placing rhino-saving programmes on the top of the CSI agendas, and &Beyond has stepped up to the plate... Read more >>

Rhinos poached reaches 107 this year
As more than 2000 representative of 178 signatory states to the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES) gather in Thailand to determine the future of threatened species, South Africa has lost another 24 rhino since last week. Read more >>


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