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 | Issued by Bizcommunity.com An increasing number of our core advertising, marketing and media audience and other professional subscribers are discovering that navigating editorial offerings across Bizcommunity's 18 multi-industry portals makes good sense... read |
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 | Leigh Andrews The #SustainableBiz16 summit just wrapped up in the US last week. I followed the tweets and noted that most of the learnings, while stemming from global corporations, definitely have local relevance... read | |  | Ruth Cooper Since its inception in 2006, Rocking the Daisies has always striven to promote green principles and practices and over the years has further entrenched and expanded on these views and initiatives. read | |  | Jessica Tennant Here's a company that believes in true sustainability to the extent of turning shampoo into a bar and toothpaste into a tablet, thoughtfully designing out the need for packaging at the product creation stage... read | |
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 | The "AtoB Challenge" builds on WWF's concept of a low-carbon challenge previously run in Tshwane and Joburg and entails teams competing to travel from the central city to Langa using any form of low-carbon transport... read |
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 | Nita Müller is the first woman in Air Products' history to be appointed as regional sales manager... read |
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 | The regional airport in George, a town of just 150,000 residents on South Africa's south coast, is Africa's first "green" airport to be powered by the sun... read |
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 | Keith Somerville Swaziland's proposal to the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES) to be able to trade in rhino horn has been decisively defeated... read |
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 | The world's biggest wildlife trade conference, CITES CoP17, wrapped up in Johannesburg on Tuesday, 4 October, with many significant votes in favour of more stringent conservation... read |
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 | Media and other influencers joined Angus McIntosh at the Spier Biodynamic Farm last week to see what free-range chickens actually look like, in support of the petition to get McDonals to commit to... read |
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 | The global conference that governs wildlife trade voted on Monday, 3 October, against proposals by Namibia and Zimbabwe to be allowed to sell their ivory internationally, in a move welcomed by many conservationists... read |
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 | World Food Day, on 16 October every year, is an international day of action against hunger, with people from around the world coming together to declare their commitment to eradicate hunger in our lifetime... read |
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 | RCL Foods is calling on South Africans to #DOMORE and donate a meal through its Facebook campaign. It will donate a meal to a needy person this World Food Day for every 'like' its CSI Facebook page receives... read |
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 | Issued by CANSA Women's health and the types of cancers prevalent among women is the theme of CANSA's Women's Health campaign being held during October... read |
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 | Issued by Praesignis Help PinkDrive build confidence and raise breast cancer awareness by participating in the "PinkTober Selfie Campaign". The target is to raise R1m for PinkDrive during the month of October... read |
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 | SARDA in Cape Town, together with African Bank, will be hosting its inaugural Countryside Challenge in Africa this year from 17-22 October at the SARDA Centre in Brommersvlei Road, Constantia... read |
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 | Oupa Masilela The five-year Strategic Plan adopted by the Department of Human Settlement in 2014, underpinned by the mandate outlined in the government's National Development Plan (NDP), highlights key aspects with regards to the delivery of housing in South Africa... read |
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 | Francini Van Staden The City of Johannesburg's water management company, Johannesburg Water (JW), has proven the business case for alternative energy solutions with the commissioning of a second municipal wastewater biogas-to-energy plant in Diepsloot... read |
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 | Yolandi Groenewald General Electric's Africa Innovation Centre near Rosebank, Johannesburg, taps into African artistry to activate creativity and enterprise development on the continent... read |
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 | Larry Feinberg For those in the construction industry the term quantity surveyor is commonly known... read |
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 | Jan Rasmussen, partner within the contaminated site management practice at the African operations of ERM, the global sustainability consultancy, has noted that South African business is now waking up to the challenges of soil and water contamination... read |
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 | In 2010, authorisation was granted to extend the Vissershok landfill to provide an extra six to nine years of landfill capacity. A condition of the approval of this project was, however, that the City of Cape Town develop a master plan for the closure and rehabilitation of the site as a whole once landfill operations at the current site cease... read |
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 | Nicci Botha Following complaints about bungled FICA procedures, FNB has introduced an online document loading system to smooth the process... read |
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