Trent Pike, founder of Mielie Mailer, believes that after the nationwide lockdown, more courier companies should consider looking at sustainable alternatives...
Evan-Lee Courie 24 Apr 2020
By the end of 2019, the rising anger around the globe was palpable, as were the divisions that fuelled the rage...
Dion Chang 6 Jan 2020
In the knowledge economy, every glimpse of the probable future carries monetary value...
Marian Salzman 6 Jan 2020
In an effort to decrease the impact of waste tyres on the environment, Mzokhona Maxase developed tyre shine and shoe polish, which uses a waste by-product of the tyre recycling process known as char...
Evan-Lee Courie 26 Nov 2019
Mielie Mailer is a lifestyle-driven enterprise that seeks to help humans make better choices for themselves and for the planet...
Evan-Lee Courie 25 Nov 2019
Promise: have your cake and eat it. But Mbaks gets an Onion - despite his halo...
Brendan Seery 5 Nov 2019
Vacant rooftops across all major cities around the world are a dime a dozen. Their concrete surfaces aren't just a waste of space in a highly urbanised world, but also contribute to the heat island effect that afflicts these built-up areas. So why not farm on them?
Sindy Peters 23 Oct 2019
With a global movement towards consciousness and sustainability becoming more apparent, more brands are looking to biotech as a solution...
Evan-Lee Courie 4 Oct 2019
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 Burgers 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
