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How social sustainability can positively impact the triple bottom line
How social sustainability can positively impact the triple bottom line
[Maritha Marneweck] A stakeholder approach to sustainability in business has myriad benefits... read
CSI & Sustainability
Five tips to making a real impact this Mandela Day
Five tips to making a real impact this Mandela Day

Joanne van der Walt

We need a new approach for Mandela Day (18 July), one that reignites a passion for changing the world... read
#Blisters4Bread: Heroes against hunger
#Blisters4Bread: Heroes against hunger

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The PSFA's 49th #Blisters4Bread Charity Family Fun Walk in association with Lucky Star will take place on 27 August... read
Forgood launches cause-based online pop-up shop
Forgood launches cause-based online pop-up shop
A new online cause-based pop-up platform, the Forgood Pop-Up Store, allows shoppers to directly support reputable causes when purchasing from its curated selection... read

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#CSIMonth: No more plastics in the Seychelles
Following the ban, it may be impossible to find even a remnant of anything that relates to plastic plates, cups and cutlery in the Seychelles... read
L-R: Mercia Mserumule, Edcon executive for CSI & Sustainability; Tina Thiart, director of the 1000 Women Trust; and Phindi Gule, marketing and communications director of Edcon.
#CSIMonth: Orange is the new black at Edgars

Sindy Peters

After running successful pilots in both Gauteng and KwaZulu-Natal, Edgars recently launched its UNiTE Orange Day campaign in the Western Cape... read
#CSIMonth: Cultivating a culture of food sharing
#CSIMonth: Cultivating a culture of food sharing

Ruth Cooper

Chef Ammaarah Petersen is on a mission to help feed, teach, and uplift communities through food and invites Capetonians to share their good deeds and food experiences on a new social media platform, Indi.com... read
#Homesewn: K-Way's lean local manufacturing machine
#Homesewn: K-Way's lean local manufacturing machine

Lauren Hartzenberg

South Africa's clothing and textile industry has seen some trying times. In the past 15 years, jobs in the local sector have decreased from 200,000 to 19,000... read
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Circular Economy
South Africans put themselves in Zimbabwean shoes
South Africans put themselves in Zimbabwean shoes

Thembela Ntongana

Blessing Lunga makes shoes in his two-roomed shack. He learned how to make them from a man he stayed with in Johannesburg... read

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Climate Change
Green reporting will expose risky companies
Green reporting will expose risky companies

Sharon Snell

G20 task force issues new Climate-Related Financial Disclosure Framework... read
Education & Training
Empathy, economic growth and redistribution key to overcoming racial tensions
Empathy, economic growth and redistribution key to overcoming racial tensions

Issued by UCT Graduate School of Business

The most obvious factor stoking racial tension in South Africa is structural socio-economic inequality, which is heavily, though not exclusively, influenced by race. This is according to Dr Gavin Andersson... read
SANParks opens 2017 Kudu Green School Initiative
SANParks opens 2017 Kudu Green School Initiative
South African National Parks (SANParks) has launched its annual Kudu Green School Initiative (KGSI) Programme for 2017... read
Samsa funds marine tourism skills training initiative
Samsa funds marine tourism skills training initiative
A multi-stakeholder initiative aimed at equipping unemployed young people with skills and opportunities to participate in the country's marine tourism sector has been launched... read
Environment & Natural Resources
Programme provides in-depth environmental understanding to boost green industry
Programme provides in-depth environmental understanding to boost green industry

Issued by Enterprises University of Pretoria

Enterprises University of Pretoria will present the biannual 10-day Programme in Environmental Management under the auspices of the Centre for Environmental Studies... read
Why the future of Africa's forests and savannas is under threat
Why the future of Africa's forests and savannas is under threat

Julie C. Aleman

Tropical Africa has two distinct features - rain forests which are dominated by trees and savannas which are dominated by grasses. Both depend on rainfall quantity and seasonality... read
Jello is feeling mellow!
Jello is feeling mellow!

Issued by uShaka Marine World

As soon as the uShaka Sea World Animal Health team were alerted to the arrival of a young male southern elephant seal onto a beach close to Port Shepstone, they made their way down to assess it... read
Food, Water & Energy Security
Water shortages in Cape Town are here to stay. What the city can learn from others
Water shortages in Cape Town are here to stay. What the city can learn from others

David Olivier

Water access is a key challenge for urban futures... read
Enterprises UP presents wastewater management and treatment short course
Enterprises UP presents wastewater management and treatment short course

Marleny Arnoldi, Issued by Enterprises University of Pretoria

Enterprises University of Pretoria's short courses on water quality management and effluent treatment challenge attendees to come up with innovations and designs that will assist in recycling wastewater... read
Cape Town to host top water loss conference
Cape Town to host top water loss conference

Dave Chambers

At the rate Cape Town's winter rainfall is going, another hot, dry summer will make this year's drought look like a Sunday School picnic... read
Hybrid burgers for the health and environmentally conscious
Hybrid burgers for the health and environmentally conscious

Bongani Shweni

Sonic launches hybrid burgers that could potentially be a game changer in the fast food chain industry... read
Food economies at risk of distortion by formal sector grocery retail
Food economies at risk of distortion by formal sector grocery retail
The Grocery Retail Sector Market Inquiry, initiated by the Competition Commission, has received input from the Sustainable Livelihoods Foundation... read
Pick n Pay, FoodForward SA partner for national Mandela Day food drive
Pick n Pay, FoodForward SA partner for national Mandela Day food drive
This Mandela Day, Pick n Pay and FoodForward SA have partnered for a national food drive with a goal to provide one million meals... read
Cape Town needs a new approach to manage water
Cape Town needs a new approach to manage water

Lucy Rodina

Cape Town is facing one of its worst droughts in over a century... read
Health & Welfare
Nkosikhona Uzzi Mpungose, Kwandile Skhosana and Paris Makaringe. Images supplied.
Activators on Mail & Guardian Top 200 Young South Africans list
Kwandile Skhosana, Nkosikhona Uzzi Mpungose and Paris Makaringe from the Activate! Change Drivers Network have made the 2017 Mail & Guardian 200 Young South Africans list... read
Inclusion & Equality
Judge steps aside from Bromwell case
Judge steps aside from Bromwell case

Ashleigh Furlong

Residents will continue with their complaint against acting judge Weinkove at the Judicial Service Commission... read
uMATI project manager, Graham Armstrong with Mayor of Mpofana, Xolani Duma, who has offered his full support to the initiative.
KZN Midlands farmers driving agricultural transformation on all levels
uMATI - with the agenda to facilitate meaningful change from the ground up - is a non-profit organisation initially established in 2015 out of a need to create a sustainable water supply for the community in the area... read
Community participation not simply a check-box task
Community participation not simply a check-box task
“Each urban development affects not only those that invest in it or occupy the buildings and places within it, but the wider community... read
Infrastructure and Technology
#StartupStory: The Sun Exchange
#StartupStory: The Sun Exchange

Ilse van den Berg

Through The Sun Exchange, anyone can go solar and start building wealth powered by sunlight. It allows for collaborative solar finance using blockchain... read
Making ‘big ideas' for Africa happen
Making ‘big ideas' for Africa happen
Planet Earth Institute launches the PEI exChange, the first online matching platform for African development... read
Better Living Challenge phase two launch
Second phase of Better Living Challenge to focus on upgrading informal homes
The Cape Craft and Design Institute (CCDI) recently launched the second iteration of the Better Living Challenge (BLC) at the Nyanga Arts Development Centre in the Western Cape... read
Pollution & Waste Management
SAPRO to recognise local products manufactured using recycled materials
SAPRO to recognise local products manufactured using recycled materials
SAPRO looks to acknowledge local products that will grow the demand for post-consumer recyclate... read
Fashion designers respond to environmental crisis
Fashion designers respond to environmental crisis

Anika Kozlowski

Canada has never been a driving force in fashion. As a nation, our culture and identity are often reduced to stereotypes involving plaid, nature and hockey... read
International
China backs hundreds of global coal power projects: report
China backs hundreds of global coal power projects: report
Chinese companies are planning or constructing hundreds of coal-fired power projects around the world, even as Beijing talks up its commitment to fighting climate change... read
Made in Myanmar: designers put ethical twist on local fashion
Made in Myanmar: designers put ethical twist on local fashion

Caroline Henshaw

With Myanmar emerging as a manufacturing hub for mass-produced clothes, a crop of young designers are using homegrown fashion to preserve the country's sartorial heritage... read
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Africa
Ivory Coast's Comoe park no longer endangered: UNESCO
Ivory Coast's Comoe park no longer endangered: UNESCO
UNESCO said on Tuesday, 4 July, that it had decided to remove Ivory Coast's Comoe National Park from its list of endangered world heritage sites after more than a decade of conservation efforts... read
Kenya should be focused on recycling, not banning plastic bags
Kenya should be focused on recycling, not banning plastic bags

Leah Oyake-Ombis

Kenya recently announced a ban on one of the most common materials used in the country's packaging sector - plastic bags... read
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Business
Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, director-general: World Health Organisation
Funding and security are key to global health
This year, 400m people, that is one out of 17, mostly poor people, women and children, around the world remain without access to healthcare... read
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Back to School for a Day on Mandela Day - 18 Jul 2017, Johannesburg
Join Adopt-a-School Foundation as we go Back to School for a Day on Mandela Day for a 67-minute programme of meaningful collaborative volunteering. Read more >>

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