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Value of environmental crime up 26%
Value of environmental crime up 26%
According to a report published recently by UNEP and INTERPOL, the value of environmental crime is 26% larger than previous estimates... read



Youth Month
Bruce Dube
#YouthMonth: Building a Youth Village with Bruce Dube

Cari Van Wyk

28-year-old Bruce Dube owns and co-owns many digital media platforms through which he shares his passion for youth development and plays a significant role in... read
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CSI & Sustainability
How small businesses can manage their impact on the environment
How small businesses can manage their impact on the environment

Miemie Struwig and Riyaadh Lillah

Understanding how businesses engage in environmental management is important given growing global concerns about the depletion of natural resources and reductions in biodiversity... read
Circular Economy
Hermann Erdman
The future of recycling isn't what you think

Hermann Erdman

Our dominant linear 'take-make-consume-dispose' economy is unsustainable. Dwindling natural resources and growing demand are inescapable: it is only a matter of time - in some cases just decades - before certain resources will no longer be available as virgin commodities. .. read
Climate Change
New technology offers hope for storing carbon dioxide underground
New technology offers hope for storing carbon dioxide underground

Dom Wolff-Boenisch

To halt climate change and prevent dangerous warming, we ultimately have to stop pumping greenhouse gases into the atmosphere... read
There are indications that climate change in Malawi will make the country poorer and its people more static.
How climate change could affect African migration patterns

Piers Forster and Evan Fraser

People are migrating on a scale unseen before... read
Education & Training
Back row (from left to right): Andre Fielies, Kirshen Aploon, Alletta Jonas, Joseph Aploon, Hermanus Koppies, Dimitri Jacobs, Jakobus Hansen. Front row: Andrea Fielies, Juané Koppies, Elru Hansen, Annemie Hansen.
Two-A-Day Education Trust opens further learning opportunities
Continuous learning is a core value of the wholly grower-owned Grabouw fruit packhouse, Two-A-Day and the Two-A-Day Education Trust read
ExxonMobil, WESSA launch environmental education programme
ExxonMobil, WESSA launch environmental education programme
Marking National Environmental Month, which takes place from 1-30 June 2016, ExxonMobil Exploration & Production South Africa Limited (ExxonMobil) has partnered with the Wildlife and Environmental Society of South Africa (WESSA) to launch an environmental education programme... read
Learners of the Khululeka Early Childhood Development (ECD) Centre dancing in celebration of their newly upgraded facility thanks to the Rotary Club of Claremont's Injongo Project, in partnership with the Lewis Group. [Photo credit: Slingshot Media]
Philippi ECD Centres receive R12m investment to date
Having undergone a comprehensive upgrade from the Rotary Club of Claremont, in partnership with the Lewis Group, three Early Childhood Development (ECD) Centres in Philippi, Cape Town were officially handed over on Wednesday, 8 June 2016... read
Environment & Natural Resources
Video hints Japan abetting illegal ivory trade
Video hints Japan abetting illegal ivory trade
Conservation activists on Thursday, 9 June, showed undercover video they say suggests that a "huge loophole" in Japanese law enforcement is hindering efforts to rein in illegal ivory trading... read
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Apps alerting guest to wildlife sightings becoming a concern
The use of these applications has resulted in an increased rate of lawlessness in the parks which includes congestion around sightings, speeding and road kills... read
- Theewaterskloof Dam on 7 June 2016. It is 29% full. At the same time in 2012 it was 52% full. It has the capacity of almost all the other 13 dams supplying Cape Town's water combined. It is the seventh largest dam in the country. Photo: Masixole Feni
Cape Town's precarious water supply

Rejul Bejoy

Drought has left dams very low but the City is taking steps to secure the future water supply. Six months have passed since the City of Cape Town tightened water restrictions... read
Moratorium on rhino horn trade reinstated
Moratorium on rhino horn trade reinstated
Minister of Environmental Affairs Edna Molewa has filed an application for leave to appeal to the Constitutional Court in the matter involving the moratorium on the domestic trade in rhino horn... read
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Awarding conservation: entries open for 2016 Kudu Awards
"The Kudu Awards is an event whereby SANParks honours and celebrates people who eat, sleep and breathe conservation." read
The role of pulses in creating a sustainable world
The role of pulses in creating a sustainable world
Among the many reasons that the United Nations declared 2016 as the International Year of the Pulses is that pulses play an important role in sustainability... read
Food Security
Prof Mike Muller
Agriculture's water challenge: more crops and jobs per drop

Derick van der Walt

South Africa will be no exception to the global trend in distributing water away from agriculture to industry and for urban use. Agriculture will find itself at the back of the queue... read
Infrastructure and Technology
South African wines go green with solar
South African wines go green with solar
Taking advantage of the South African climate, three wine estates have blended vintage with innovation to enhance their power requirements... read
Technical discussions needed for GERD
Technical discussions needed for GERD

Dale Whittington

The Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam is now approximately 50% complete... read
Pollution & Waste Management
UN announces global standard to measure food waste
UN announces global standard to measure food waste
The FLW Standard is a set of global definitions and... read
Business
Ten jobs of the future - which are you skilling up for?
Ten jobs of the future - which are you skilling up for?

john sanei

Past trends may no longer be a reliable indicator of future job prospects... read
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