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CT appoints first chief resilience officer
CT appoints first chief resilience officer
The City of Cape Town has appointed Craig Kesson as its first chief resilience officer... read
#AUW2017: Buildings offer significant opportunity for energy efficiency
#AUW2017: Buildings offer significant opportunity for energy efficiency

Sindy Peters

One of the many pertinent questions asked at this year's African Utility Week was... Read

Trialogue director Cathy Duff
Tracking a decade of trends in SA's CSI space

According to Trialogue director Cathy Duff, despite uncertainty and tougher trading conditions in almost every sector of the economy... Read

Mark Tulay, director of Strategic Investor Initiative at New York-based CECP
Employees, customers empower CEOs to embrace sustainability

Businesses that contribute to socioeconomic development can dramatically outperform... Read

Climate Change
#AUW2017: Innovative water management in Africa requires collaboration
#AUW2017: Innovative water management in Africa requires collaboration

Sindy Peters

Uganda's Minister of Water and Environment Sam Cheptoris kicked off proceedings in the Water track on the first day of this year's African Utility Week... read
Food, Water & Energy Security
Marius Oosthuizen, lecturer: strategic foresight (leadership, strategy & ethics) at the Gordon Institute of Business Science (GIBS)
#AUW2017: Trends shaping the future of utilities

Sindy Peters

Marius Oosthuizen, a lecturer in strategic foresight at the Gordon Institute of Business Science (GIBS), led delegates during the final keynote session of this year's African Utility Week in a scenario planning exercise, unpacking some of the trends shaping the future of utilities. read
Gisela Kaiser, executive director, Utility Services, City of Cape Town
#AUW2017: Cape Town drought - city ‘waiting on a miracle'

Alicestine October

Amidst what has been labelled the worst drought in Cape Town in 100 years, a city official told delegates at the 2017 African Utility Week conference that there was no way they could reasonably have anticipated the severity of it... read
Justin Friedman, founder of For the Love of Water (FLOW)
#AUW2017: Water conservation - what's love got to do with it?

Sindy Peters

Justin Friedman, founder of For the Love of Water (FLOW), chaired and opened the keynote session on the second day of the 2017 African Utility Week... read
Health & Welfare
Cape Town joins effort to build healthier cities
Cape Town joins effort to build healthier cities
Cape Town has joined the Partnership for Healthy Cities, a global effort to build healthier cities by pursuing a specific policy to reduce non-communicable diseases and injuries by 2018... read
A heroic day for the Sandton SPCA
A heroic day for the Sandton SPCA

Issued by Global Access

On a fund-raising initiative for the Sandton SPCA on Free Comic Book Day, Global Access helped spread information and knowledge around the SPCA using their interactive technology, Sensanetik... read
Clicks sponsors Project Dignity's Girls on the Go campaign
Clicks sponsors Project Dignity's Girls on the Go campaign
Clicks is partnering with Project Dignity on its Girls on the Go campaign, to assist with sponsorship of thousands of reusable sanitary packs... read
Inclusion & Equality
2017 Women in Construction Awards finalists revealed
2017 Women in Construction Awards finalists revealed
The finalists in this year's Women in Construction Awards have been announced... read
Graça Machel, with (left to right) Trialogue MD Nick Rockey and Trialogue directors Cathy Duff and Vusi Khoza.
Empowering, educating women critical to African development
The advancement of women in business improves bottom-line performance and strengthens corporate culture, said Graça Machel, which ultimately drives GDP and socioeconomic development... read
Infrastructure and Technology
Reducing carbon footprint of the built world with Solidiatech
Reducing carbon footprint of the built world with Solidiatech

Emile Uys

Eco-friendliness can be achieved even in the granules with which we construct buildings... read
SA participates in national urban policy conference
SA participates in national urban policy conference
Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs deputy minister Andries Nel participated in the Second International Conference on National Urban Policy in France... read
All roads to sustainable energy lead to the sun
All roads to sustainable energy lead to the sun

Werner van Zyl

Humans consume 221 tonnes of coal, 1,066 barrels of oil, and 93,000 metric cubes of natural gas per second... read
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How an open approach to patents could help build a sustainable future

Frank Tietze

To sustain a population of 9.7 billion people by 2050, the world is going to need innovations that make careful use of the available resources, human and environmental... read
Rooftop PV in SA on the rise
Rooftop PV in SA on the rise
According to Ashley Maistry, associate director for Accenture Resources, increasing environmental awareness is driving South Africans to invest in a more sustainable future... read
Africa
eWater, Eseye roll out efficient clean water system in Gambia
eWater, Eseye roll out efficient clean water system in Gambia
eWater recently partnered with Eseye in the provision of clean water in Gambia, with roll-out plans in the pipeline for other African countries... read
The superhighway threatening Nigeria's tropical rainforest
The superhighway threatening Nigeria's tropical rainforest
When bulldozers rolled into their forest at the start of last year, the Ekuri community in southeast Nigeria protested: "Indigenes say no!" read
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Why businesses in Nigeria need to take sustainable finance seriously

Kenneth Amaeshi

Many people will have heard of the UN Sustainable Development Goals. But less well known is the concept of sustainability at the root of these goals... read
West African girls show the way in Senegal tech battle
West African girls show the way in Senegal tech battle
West African schoolgirls, some not yet teenagers, have taken a starring role at an engineering competition in Senegal, busting stereotypes with robotics expertise and innovative projects for their communities... read
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Business
Execs considering blockchain in business plans
Execs considering blockchain in business plans
Eight out of 10 C-suite executives interviewed say they are investigating blockchain as a means of doing business, an IBM study shows... read
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