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Buy a Bag of Hope - one way business can help SA's children succeed
Buy a Bag of Hope - one way business can help SA's children succeed
[Sindy Peters] Uzwelo Bags was launched with the goal of making a meaningful difference... read
Circular Economy
Mathe Group recycles 100,000 truck tyres
Mathe Group recycles 100,000 truck tyres
Mathe Group recently celebrated recycling its 100,000th truck tyre at its Hammarsdale facility... read
Climate Change
Why you need to get involved in the geoengineering debate - now
Why you need to get involved in the geoengineering debate - now

Rob Bellamy

The prospect of engineering the world's climate system to tackle global warming is becoming more and more likely... read
More trees, better farming could slash carbon emissions: study
More trees, better farming could slash carbon emissions: study
Planting more trees, farming more sustainably and conserving wetlands could significantly slash the amount of carbon emissions that humanity spews into the atmosphere... read
Education & Training
Deputy President goes back to school to raise funds for Adopt-a-School Foundation
Deputy President goes back to school to raise funds for Adopt-a-School Foundation

Issued by Cyril Ramaphosa Foundation

Over 800 industry leaders and government officials attended the 11th annual Adopt-a-School Foundation 'Back to School' fundraising event at the Sandton Convention Centre on Saturday, 14 October... read
Free financial literacy portal shares learnings and lessons
Free financial literacy portal shares learnings and lessons

Issued by Trialogue

The Trialogue Knowledge Hub offers free examples of best-practice projects, case studies, research and much more so that companies can start or improve their own projects and programmes... read
L-R: Carine Munting, UNICEF partnership manager; Leon Meyer, GM at The Westin; Marilize van Niekerk, executive secretary to the GM; Sandra Bisin, UNICEF chief of communication and partnerships; and Jeremy Harris, radio personality and event MC.
Westin-Unicef Charity Ball raises another R1m in 2017
This year's Westin-Unicef Charity Ball, hosted by The Westin Cape Town on Saturday, 14 October, matched the previous year's donations, raising R1m. read
Flight Centre Foundation looks to tackle poverty through education
Flight Centre Foundation looks to tackle poverty through education

Sindy Peters

The Flight Centre Foundation aims to break the cycle of poverty through education, running a number of relevant programmes... read
Environment & Natural Resources
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Forest fires contributed to record global tree cover loss
A sharp increase in forest fires stoked record losses in global forest cover equivalent to the area of New Zealand in 2016, a Global Forest Watch report said on Monday, 23 October... read
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WAZA signs MoU to help make sustainably produced palm oil the norm
The World Association of Zoos and Aquariums and the RSPO have signed a five-year MoU to further transformation of markets and make sustainable palm oil the norm... read
Mine hits back over West Coast aquifer
Mine hits back over West Coast aquifer

Melanie Gosling

Kropz responds to environmentalists' attempt to stop pumping... read
Food, Water & Energy Security
Nelson Mandela Bay proposes to beat drought with R7bn infrastructure investment
Nelson Mandela Bay proposes to beat drought with R7bn infrastructure investment

Riaan Marais

If given the thumbs-up by the National Disaster Fund, the Nelson Mandela Bay Municipality plans to pump more than R7bn into infrastructure aimed at relieving drought conditions... read
Colin Logan, technical executive for GIBB's dams, hydropower and underground works services sector
It's time to have an honest conversation about energy

Colin Logan

It is critical that the energy mix is carefully blended by policymakers to ensure a sustainable economy... read
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The traditional vegetable and sweet potato research that's revolutionising the way we build food and nutrition security in Africa

Millie Phiri, Sonia Naidoo, Nadia Ibraimo

Various agricultural research institutions in Africa are currently carrying out research on orphan crops mainly to improve yields and controlling and lowering disease tolerance.... read
Health & Welfare
Praesignis launches data and business intelligence platform for PinkDrive
Praesignis launches data and business intelligence platform for PinkDrive

Issued by Praesignis

Praesignis has developed a customised solution for PinkDrive and is launching this platform during October, International Breast Cancer Awareness Month... read
Vitality MoveToGive campaign sees over 42,000 sanitary packs donated to Caring4Girls programme
Vitality MoveToGive campaign sees over 42,000 sanitary packs donated to Caring4Girls programme
Discovery Vitality partnered with Dis-Chem during Women's Month this year for its Vitality MoveToGive campaign, donating over 42,000 sanitary packs to help keep 6,000 girls in school... read
Inclusion & Equality
How SA's urban sprawl trend is maintaining spatial divisions, resulting in poverty traps
How SA's urban sprawl trend is maintaining spatial divisions, resulting in poverty traps
According to Professor Edgar Pieterse, urban sprawl will continue to be encouraged if private- and public-sector land investment in our cities concentrates on keeping the haves away from the have-nots... read
Harvey Weinstein and 'Fearless Girl' statue © Sam Aronov and tom934 - .
What the 'Fearless Girl' statue and Harvey Weinstein have in common

Sarah Banet-Weiser

Together, these two stories tell an even bigger tale of a national dynamic that I call "popular feminism" and "popular misogyny."... read
Airbnb announces $1m investment in community-led tourism projects in Africa
Airbnb announces $1m investment in community-led tourism projects in Africa
As part of Airbnb's vision to empower communities through home sharing and to promote people-to-people tourism that benefits local families and their communities, it will invest $1m to... read
Infrastructure and Technology
Nigel Oseland, workplace strategist and change manager
These natural building ingredients can help increase productivity
Only 53% of wage earners think their place of work helps their productivity... read
#GBCSA2017: The potential for buildings to become mini utilities
#GBCSA2017: The potential for buildings to become mini utilities

Sindy Peters

The future of large public utilities, such as Eskom, is uncertain... read
Engineers could learn a lot from dance when designing urban transport
Engineers could learn a lot from dance when designing urban transport

John Bingham-Hall

There is little more important for the sustainability of cities than the ways we move around them... read
China's green planning for the world starts with infrastructure
China's green planning for the world starts with infrastructure

Asit K. Biswas and Kris Hartley

The United States is retreating from the global community under a president who rejected the Paris Climate Accords and denigrates NAFTA and NATO. This provides an opportunity for China to play a greater role in global affairs... read
Discovery's new global HQ certified green
Discovery's new global HQ certified green
Discovery's new 112,000m2 global head office in Sandton Central has received a five-star Green Star rating by the Green Building Council South Africa (GBCSA)... read
Does South Africa's renewable energy plan signify progress or regression?
Does South Africa's renewable energy plan signify progress or regression?

Siyabonga Mbanjwa

The energy industry breathed a huge sigh of relief recently when energy minister Mmamoloko Kubayi announced that power purchase agreements (PPAs) for renewable energy from bid windows 3.5 and 4 will be signed by the end of October 2017... read
Pollution & Waste Management
Pollution killed nine million people in 2015: report
Pollution killed nine million people in 2015: report
Pollution claimed the lives of nine million people in 2015, one in every six deaths that year, according to a report published on Friday, 20 October... read

Entrepreneur Month
#EntrepreneurMonth: Supporting disadvantaged artists through the Grassroots Art Project
Supporting disadvantaged artists through the Grassroots Art Project

Ruth Cooper

Poor working conditions, minimum access to beneficial networks and lack of skills and resources for promotion are just a few of the challenges that disadvantaged artists face when aiming to make viable careers from their creativity. read
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