More than ever before, in 2018 we saw sustainability playing a major role in shaping trends in the retail sector...
Feroz Koor 25 Jan 2019
Faithful to Nature has revealed the winners of its inaugural Eco Awards, a competition introduced to highlight the brands committed to demonstrating and promoting conscious consumption...
Lauren Hartzenberg 21 Jan 2019
The year 2018 was packed with environmental buzzwords. Sustainable, eco-friendly, low-carbon footprint, and upcycle are just some of the words that we are used to hearing in conversations with our clients, and for good reason...
Kim Winstanley 17 Jan 2019
Amidst two extremes -- audience apathy on one end and backlash against perceived social washing on the other -- the ad industry has emerged fresh-faced and focused: Ready to prove that we're thoughtful, attentive partners who listen when our audience speaks, able to hold a conversation that doesn't always place ourselves and our interests at the very centre of it...
Auryn Hiscock and Mikhaila Hunter 15 Jan 2019
Businesses need to adapt and evolve to keep up with the rapidly changing markets in which they operate...
Emmanuel Kasese 7 Jan 2019
2018 was a year of paradox. The scientific signals of global warming are significantly stronger. The frequency, intensity and cost of weather impacts escalates. But the backtracking and general malaise...
Simon Clarke 7 Jan 2019
Packaging that lasts as long as it's needed, not longer...
Lauren Hartzenberg 23 Nov 2018
MasterChef SA season two winner and all-around local foodie celebrity Kamini Panther launched her new chef-inspired, healthy food delivery service FÜDY through Uber Eats at the beginning of this month...
Ruth Cooper 6 Nov 2018
Sorry to disappoint the sci-fi junkies out there, but futuristic movies that portrayed glistening silver cities filled with metallic buildings might have missed the mark...
Adrian Goslett 3 Aug 2018
"Our role as tourism professionals is to ensure the sustainability of sustainable tourism. That is, we're to ensure that all of the principles are built into the foundations of what we're doing and that every strategy we have for business growth and development recognises this..."
Danny Bryer 12 Jun 2018
The need for accelerated social progress and purpose-driven communications is at an all-time high, especially in Africa...
Louise Marsland 14 May 2018
Uzwelo Bags was launched with the goal of making a meaningful difference...
Sindy Peters 19 Oct 2017
Property developer Propertuity partnered recently with New York-based architecture firm and upcycling experts LOT-EK in creating South Africa's first large-scale residential container development, Drivelines...
Sindy Peters 28 Sep 2017
Cape Town-based ethical fashion and lifestyle brand, The Joinery, is trailblazing the local sustainable business scene...
Lauren Hartzenberg 22 Sep 2017
The business case for transforming waste to address critical energy shortages is mounting...
Webb Meko 8 Aug 2017
Ken Egbas, founder of The SERAS, unpacks some of the awards' most significant impacts on the African CSR landscape...
Sindy Peters 21 Jul 2017
We chat to Eco-Logic Award winner, Reliance Compost's founder and director about organic compost, growing green minds and ensuring a healthy world for future generations...
Cari Coetzee 17 Jul 2017
Since its launch in 2013, Rethaka has manufactured and distributed 10,000 Repurpose Schoolbags in six African countries, recycling 400,000 plastic bags in the process...
Sindy Peters 29 Jun 2017
Because their usefulness extends well beyond their original purpose, and to bury them in earth is exceptionally wasteful...
Sindy Peters 4 Apr 2017
The UN World Water Development Report: Wastewater, the Untapped Resource indicates that for decades, people have been using fresh water faster than nature can replace it...
Hermann Erdman 24 Mar 2017
As we slowly wise up to the negative effects our growing consumerism has on the environment, it could be argued that the most progressive design is that which is sustainable...
Lauren Hartzenberg 23 Feb 2017
Uzwelo Bags has designed and manufactured unique, eye-catching luggage covers that will ensure that you never miss your bag on that overcrowded carousel ever again...
Cari Coetzee 8 Feb 2017
Responsible business and sustainability are not necessarily terms that inspire excitement – but they should. By thinking outside the box, companies are using increasingly innovative approaches to get involved in recycling and become a part of the circular economy...
Nathan Nayagar 23 Jan 2017
The threat of global resource management is growing. While the milestones of the UN Sustainable Development Goals and the Paris Agreement, which South Africa has adopted along with support for the Common African Position (CAP), help raise awareness of the challenges ahead, there is a growing need for businesses to play a leading role...
Nathan Nayagar 18 Jan 2017
Today, the world has 1.8-billion middle-class consumers; within the next 20 years it will be home to 5-billion consumers...
Hermann Erdman 9 Jan 2017
We interview Mike Nicholls, director of Technical Services at Interwaste to find out their take on current waste management practices and legislation in South Africa...
Sindy Peters 28 Oct 2016
SA has been rated as one of the worst-performing African countries in terms of entrepreneurship...
Hermann Erdman 10 Oct 2016
Social-TV is an online media channel that showcases company CSI and sustainable development initiatives while highlighting charity organisations that need funding...
Sindy Peters 20 Sep 2016
Manufacturers are becoming increasingly concerned about the rising costs of product manufacturing - particularly the costs associated with the end-of-life disposal of these products...
Hermann Erdman 16 Aug 2016
The countdown to Mandela Day has begun. If you're still not sure about how to make your 67 minutes count, forgood has curated some options for you...
Sindy Peters 14 Jul 2016
