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Journey of Water aims to highlight threat to water security
A group of influential young South Africans will be participating in a four-day Journey of Water in KwaZulu-Natal to highlight the threats to South Africa's water security... read more>>



CSI & Sustainable Development
Pioneer Food installs two biomass boilers
Pioneer Foods has received local and international recognition for its carbon savings initiatives after the installation of biomass, woodchip boilers in two of its bakeries... read more>>
Carbon tax in spotlight at CAIA networking session
A networking session on the scope and design of the proposed carbon tax for South Africa that is to be implemented during 2016 will be held on Wednesday, 13 May 2015 from 10am to 1pm at the Wits Club in Johannesburg... read more>>
SAB and the University of the Free State develop ground-breaking irrigation method
South African Breweries, in partnership with the University of the Free State, has developed a world-first scientific alternative method of barley irrigation used to lower the crop's total water footprint and increase its sustainability. read more>>
Ecotourism & Biodiversity
Rhino poaching at new record levels
South Africa said Sunday, 10 May, that more rhinos were poached in the first four months of 2015 than in the same period last year as the scourge continues to hit record levels... read more>>
Pollution & Waste Management
Inaugural Italian recycling workshops welcomed at INDUTEC
Waste and Recycling Africa is a component of the 12-shows-in-one INDUTEC expo and focuses on products and services such as compactors, hydraulics, landfill services, odour control, recycling, safety equipment, logistics... read more>>
Finalists for the 2015 APO Energy Media Award announced
DAKAR, SENEGAL: Six African journalists have been selected as finalists in the 2015 APO Energy Media Award. The first-place winner will travel to Dubai to attend the Africa Energy Forum... read more>>
Renewables & Energy Efficiency
Bank backs SA's renewable energy plan from inception
SA has embarked on an ambitious renewable energy programme that will give the country the comfort of having a number of diversified sources of energy to feed into the national grid so that it is no longer dependent purely on conventional power stations... read more>>
Volkswagen obtains significant energy reductions
Volkswagen's Uitenhage plant has obtained significant energy reductions through the combined initiatives from its energy management team... read more>>
49M Business Energy Rating Index gets more support
Sun International, MMI Holdings and Tiger Brands have demonstrated their commitment to the energy cause by becoming the latest corporates to participate in the 49M Business Energy Efficiency Index... read more>>
International
3D fake rhino horn is its own dilemma

Tanya Farber

Could 3D printing save the rhino? A US company hopes so. Bioengineering company Pembient says it has mastered the technology to create fake rhino horns that are genetically identical to the real thing, using a 3D printer... read more>>
Norway plans to cut incentives for electric cars
Norway plans to gradually reduce some of the incentives offered to drivers of electric cars, which now account for almost a quarter of the country's new car registrations... read more>>
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Africa
Botswana's marauding elephants trigger hunting ban debate
Surveying her destroyed cornfield in northern Botswana, Minsozie Kasaira wishes for a return to the days of elephant hunting... read more>>
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