Many businesses and individuals are aware of the importance of reducing their energy consumption; doing so offers benefits for the environment and a decrease in one’s utility bill. However, one of the biggest barriers to the wider adoption of...
Retail group SPAR has announced new sustainability goals, which will introduce several green initiatives over the next four years. Sustainable packaging has been rolled out for certain the group’s in-house ‘own brand’ products, in line with a...
The Department of Public Works and Infrastructure (DPWI) has gazetted the draft National Infrastructure Plan 2050 (NIP 2050) for public comment. The NIP 2050 was prepared by Infrastructure South Africa (ISA), working closely with sector specialists...
Acumen Software, with an impeccable reputation for delivering software solutions for service delivery organisations, has launched the first phase of its My Smart City citizen’s platform for City of Johannesburg and City of Cape Town residents....
With South Africa’s growing demand for water – and the impact of climate change on rainfall variability and water supply security – the need for a systematic approach to water stewardship in mining has never been greater. Water management has long...
Life on earth is symbiotic, each component within the ecosystem plays a significant role – you only have to examine how the loss of the bee population today is affecting food systems – to be reminded of just how interconnected everything really is....
Companies across South Africa have stepped up this National Energy Month to bring their corporate innovation capabilities forward – in line with Government’s call to find urgent solutions to the country’s energy crisis. Some of the clear-cut...
Imagine an entire twenty storey concrete building that can store energy like a giant battery. Thanks to unique research from Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden, such a vision could someday be a reality. Researchers from the Department of...
The Water Research Commission (WRC) has led the South African initiative towards developing web-based epidemiology (WBE) platform that reports on the presence of the SARS-CoV-2 virus in collected samples of wastewater. Launched together with the...
