Reuters reports that leaders of a fledgling UN green fund have agreed to select a headquarters this year as part of a plan to oversee billions of dollars in aid to help developing nations fight global warming. The meeting, which lasted over three...
The Southern African Association for Energy Efficiency (SAEE) has announced that Prof LJ Grobler is the winner in the Green Industry Leader category of the Green Supply Chain Awards. Grobler is a founding member of the Southern African Association...
Nigeria will continue to have problems with its energy sector because of its inability to develop a long-term vision that links energy access with industrial transformation, says Dr Kandeh Yumkella, the director general of the United Nations...
Two South African projects have been chosen in the 100 most innovative and inspiring urban infrastructure projects in the world in the KPMG Global Infrastructure Practice. This is a remarkable feat for the country as sustainable urban...
Camilla Howard and Michael Baretta will be spending seven months from October 2012 to April 2013 traversing 3Â 300km of South African coastline on foot. With bins on their backs, these social-change adventurers plan to clean up the beaches and put a...
The Ekurhuleni Metropolitan Municipality has announced that the deployment of energy efficient technology has started paying off for the metro. Several programmes have been put in place and retrofitting or the addition of new technologies, has seen...
Nationwide water and sanitation hearings will start this week, the SA Human Rights Commission said on Tuesday. The meetings will be public and will start in Mpumalanga on Wednesday and continue in all provinces until November, the...
With wisdom and wit, Anupam Mishra talks about the amazing feats of engineering built centuries ago by the people of India’s Golden Desert to harvest water. These structures are still used today — and are often superior to modern water...
Incledon surpassed a number of larger competitors to obtain the highly respected award, which was issued at a special ceremony hosted at the Water Institute of Southern Africa (WISA) conference, which took place in Cape Town on 9 May 2012. Grundfos...
Investment in South Africa’s water resources needs to double in the next 10 years if the country is to meet the growing demand, Water and Environmental Affairs Minister Edna Molewa. “It’s going to require a lot of money but the...
