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 | To foster an entrepreneurial spirit among their learners, Curro held the final round of their inaugural national interschool Entrepreneurship Competition in Kempton Park last week... read |
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 | Farshid Pahlevani and Veena Sahajwalla If someone said "green manufacturing" to you, what comes to mind is probably environmentally friendly products - solar panels, bamboo garments and the like... read |
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 | Lyndal Rowlands While farming contributes to climate change, the world's 500 million smallholder farming households, who often only produce enough food for their families to survive, will be among the worst hit by a changing climate... read |
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 | The pledge to eradicate hunger and poverty must go hand in hand with rapid transformations of farming and food systems to cope with a warmer world, FAO said today in a new report. read |
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 | All cities, big and small, can and must help build the sustainable, resilient food systems of the future... read |
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 | Nine Consumer Studies learners from five Western Cape schools recently turned up the heat as they vied for for first place at the GrandWest CSI School Cook-Off... read |
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 | Hortgro invested R2.5m in bursaries and the development of students for 2016. Over the past 10 years, Hortgro has spent R20m on bursaries as an investment in budding agriculturalists... read |
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 | SEED, with the support of the Government of Flanders, is inviting local companies with the potential to realise eco-inclusive business innovation in South Africa to apply for a place in the SEED Go Sustainable Programme. read |
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 | The Change the World Trust is spearheading a National Coding Campaign aimed at transforming the lives of the youth... read |
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 | Monash South Africa (MSA) recently announced its 2016 intake of 10 MSA LEAD fellows... read |
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 | Glenda Mansfield When it comes to growing your business, people are everything, be they staff, customers, or the community surrounding your brand... read |
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 | City Power has employed 24 electrical engineering students as part of its contribution to give unemployed youth much needed work experience... read |
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 | The School Breakfast Nutrition Programme, launched by Pioneer Foods in 2015, is currently reaching 21,450 children daily in 25 schools in the Western Cape, Northern Cape, Limpopo, North West and Free State... read |
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 | The WWF South Africa is concerned about claims that money held in trust for mine rehabilitation on behalf of Oakbay was diverted... read |
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 | SALI has recognised the lush gardens at Sun International's Sun City as the most water-wise in the country. Life Landscapes, the resort's landscaping and garden maintenance service provider, has won the... read |
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 | Australia on Thursday, 20 October, admitted more needs to be done to protect the Great Barrier Reef from pollution after a government-backed report painted a bleak picture of the natural wonder... read |
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 | The women are implementing resilient climate change adaptation and ecological organic farming projects that fight poverty and hunger through sustainable agriculture practices such as... read |
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 | Mike Muller Many people believe that water shortages will threaten global food security. That is not true... read |
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 | Logistics solutions company, Brambles has signed a three-year agreement with the Global FoodBanking Network to provide supply chain knowledge, in-kind contributions, volunteers and... read |
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 | Robin Fredericks On Friday, 7 October, the monthly Paint & Sip event was hosted in Loop Street, Cape Town by Call 2 Care - a non-profit volunteer organisation focused on sustainable community development... read |
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 | Kate Bayliss African stakeholders have called for water supply and sanitation to be a priority at the next meeting of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change... read |
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 | Merck, the World Health Organisation (WHO) and Ivory Coast's ministry of health launched a tablet distribution programme to fight schistosomiasis... read |
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 | Vanesa Castán Broto Habitat III - the United Nation's global conference on the future of cities - has come to a close... read |
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 | Yassin Brunger The United Nations has made the gathering of data on girls across the world the coming year's focus. Marking the International Day of the Girl Child, it issued a call for action for increased investment in collecting and analysing data that's focused on and relevant to girls... read |
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 | Water and Sanitation Minister Nomvula Mokonyane has signed a landmark water cooperation agreement with Italy... read |
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 | Sindy Peters Multinational water tech and innovation company Crystal Lagoons entered the South African market earlier this year bringing with it technology patented in 160 countries... read |
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 | Located next to Cavendish Shopping Centre in Claremont, The Citadel, a four-star green building, was officially opened this week as the new head office of wealth management business Citadel... read |
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 | Cecilia Square in Paarl is relaunching phase two of the building development. Lazercor Developments will further incorporate green features to the second office building retaining its four-star Green Star SA Office Design status... read |
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 | The UN Habitat III event got underway this week with a goal to establish a New Urban Agenda for the next 20 years... read |
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 | Michael Keith, Andreza de Souza Santos and Nichola The UN estimates that more than six billion people will live in cities by the year 2045 - compared with fewer than four billion today... read |
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 | Barbara Norman and John Colin Reid As the global population grows from seven to nearly ten billion by 2050, we will need to build the equivalent of a city of one million people every five days to house them... read |
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 | Lutho Mtongana The Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) and energy experts have called for the Department of Energy to factor in the latest research on renewables, which shows that solar photovoltaic (PV) and wind energy are 40% cheaper than coal, before it approves and publishes the latest Integrated Resource Plan (IRP)... read |
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 | If not carefully managed, hydro-electric schemes along Angola's Kwanza River could have severe environmental impacts... read |
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 | Ryan Ravens Can we justify free tertiary education, when there's a greater need for a robust social security system? Does SA need more poets and politicians, when artisans are what will grow the economy?... read |
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