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#CommerceMonth: Empowering consumers to make green choices
[Sindy Peters] Robyn Smith is the head and heart behind Faithful to Nature... read



Brand Manager Month
#BrandManagerMonth: Bronwyn Feldwick-Davis of Reach For A Dream

Sindy Peters

With Brand Manager Month drawing to a close, we chatted to Bronwyn Feldwick-Davis, national marketing and communications manager of the Reach For A Dream Foundation, about brand management in the child welfare sector... read
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Climate Change
Satellites key to monitoring harmful emissions: space agencies
Satellite technology plays a crucial role in measuring greenhouse gas emissions globally, the heads of several space agencies agreed on Sunday, 3 April, as they vowed to work together to develop a coordinated monitoring system... read
CSI
'The Bobs - Best of Online Activism' has selected finalists
The 'The Bobs - Best of Online Activism' competition, run by Deutsche Welle since 2004, honours people whose exemplary work contributes to improving online freedom of expression and civil society on the Internet... read
Education & Training
Barloworld partners with REAP to support students
Barloworld, a distributor of leading global brands, has adopted a collaborative approach as the company believes that no academically worthy young South African should be denied the opportunity to study at higher education level because of a lack of financing... read
Ocular donates computers to Coronation Training Centre
Ocular Technologies has donated computers and software to Coronation Training Centre, a school based in Newlands, Johannesburg that caters for learners with special educational needs - both intellectually and physically impaired children... read
Networks Unlimited raises R160,000 in support of Literacy for Life
Networks Unlimited's second annual corporate golf day has raised more than R160,000 in support of Literacy for Life, a non-profit organisation that provides educational writing and reading aid to disadvantaged schools... read
Vodacom donates digital classroom to Limpopo school
Vodacom, in partnership with Samsung, has donated a digital classroom to the Seloutjo Secondary School in Ga-matlala, Limpopo... read
Environment & Natural Resources
Travel industry leaders condemn elephant commercialisation
For years, one of the biggest draw card to the safari experience is the opportunity to interact with elephants through petting and elephant rides... read
Parched days coming

Shaun Smillie

Nineteen years from now South Africa will be facing severe water shortages as demand outstrips supply despite planned government interventions, according to a study to be released today by the Institute for Security Studies... read
Local anger is rising against South Africa's 'resource curse'

Patrick Bond

South African society's conflict with a mainstay of the country's corporate economy - resource extraction - is permanently on display in the platinum, gold and coalfields in the north and north-east of the country... read
Health & Welfare
18+ Campaign results in decrease in underage drinking
Since the launch of SAB's underage drinking campaign, 18+ 'be the mentor you wish you had', there has been a 52% decrease amongst the mentees... read
Children of Fire joins #ThrowbackThursday campaign
The Children of Fire charity has joined the 'Throwback Thursday' (#TBT) conversation, a trend on social media wherein users post or repost photographs from their past or childhood with the hashtag #ThrowbackThursday... read
BON Hotels launches BONangels to facilitate charity drives
BON Hotels have expanded on their corporate social responsibility (CSR) initiatives with the introduction of BONangels... read
StreetSmart launches in Knysna to support street children
StreetSmart SA has launched in Knysna and is rallying restaurants to become involved in helping to rebuild the lives of children at risk in the town... read
What are pulses and why should you care?
Despite pulses being little nutritional powerhouses that should be included in our diets, not many people know what a pulse is... read
Clover's 'Mamas' keeping folk healthy
April is Health Awareness Month and while many are encouraged to eat the right foods, the question has to be raised as to whether people in South Africa - especially the poor - are getting the right nutrition to live a healthy life... read
VW introduces a test drive for social good
Siyabonga Joko made the first ever social test drive when he took a Volkswagen Amarok pick-up on a 492km round-trip through beautiful but challenging terrain to deliver sewing machines, overlockers... read
Dr Kenneth Kaunda One of a Kind ride

Issued by Seven Colors Communications

The Ikgate Motlhala cycle campaign in partnership with the North West Department of Tourism and the North West Tourism Board returns from 24-29 April in honour of struggle stalwart and former President of Zambia Dr Kenneth Kaunda's 91st birthday... read
R25m set aside for Africa's first social impact bonds

Issued by UCT Graduate School of Business

The Western Cape government together with UCT GSB's Bertha Centre for Social Innovation and Entrepreneurship has been working with national, provincial and local government in South Africa to design and pioneer the use of social impact bonds... read
Inclusion & Equality
Skip supports the #PassOnTheMagic campaign
Skip has partnered with The Princess Project, a local NGO, to ensure that more women have the opportunity to feel spectacular as they step out in a glamorous dress. The company wants South Africans to get involved in #PassOnTheMagic... read
Energy and Environment Partnership opens call for proposals
The Energy and Environment Partnership Programme with Southern and East Africa (EEP S&EA) is seeking high-quality applications for projects that can contribute to the reduction of poverty by promoting inclusive and job-creating green economy and by improving energy security while mitigating global climate change... read
L'Oréal, UNESCO launch For Women in Science Manifesto
Leading women scientists and promising young researchers were honoured at the 18th edition of the L'Oréal-UNESCO For Women in Science Ceremony at the Maison de la Mutualité in Paris, France... read
Infrastructure and Technology
Renewables use could save $750bn in Mideast, Africa: official
Middle Eastern and North African nations can make a "net benefit" of $750bn if they achieve their set targets on the use of renewable energy, a senior official said on Monday, 4 April... read
Renewable energy can reduce overall energy need of buildings
Rupesh Vaga, project engineer at EES Africa, says there are two main synergies which can be incorporated into modern building design to reduce the dependency of electrical generation on fossil fuels... read
Global investment in renewable energy on the increase
A report by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) indicates that coal and gas-fired electricity generation last year drew less than half the record investment made in solar, wind and other renewables capacity - one of several important firsts for green energy... read
Pollution & Waste Management
#CommerceMonth: Resetting social media for social change

Leigh Andrews

Everyone eats, but food wastage is a reality - even on those perfectly lit #foodporn meal shots that litter Instagram. Here's how DDB South Africa turned this into a product placement opportunity and a good commerce cause for Glad... read
Wastewater treatment - How important is it for us?

Boris Dzhingarov, Issued by Monetary Library

The actions of humans on the environment can be quite devastating. When referring to wastewater there are so many places all around the world where this water is pumped straight into the ocean, streams and rivers... read
Renewables & Energy Efficiency
Turning Growthpoint green
Growthpoint Properties is now embarking on its largest rooftop solar installations yet... read
Science & Engineering
Hydrogen fuel cell prototype boosts Implats' green credentials
A R12m project has set the stage for building a sustainable fuel cell industry in South Africa... read
Business
Suffering from busylepsy?

Naseem Javed

When was the last time you heard a senior executive say "I'm just too busy?" The claims of being too busy are primarily an admittance to suffering from 'busylepsy'... read
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