Improving access to nutritious food, food gardens are an excellent and widely adopted method for providing food to disadvantaged communities in South Africa, and around the world. According to Suzanne Ackerman, director of transformation at major...
There has been significant coverage in the media recently about the desperate need to improve the country’s infrastructure. To achieve this more engineers are needed in the private and public sector, mentions Jan Palm, an experienced engineer in...
Protesters stand outside parliament every Wednesday to say that Nuclear Energy is not the future of South Africa. They believe the country does not have money to waste on building nuclear energy plants and we should utilise renewable energy sources...
A multi-million rand investment in a rubber crumb manufacturing plant in Hammarsdale will take rubber tyre recycling to a whole new level in KwaZulu-Natal. Dr Mehran Zarrebini, head of British investment group PFE International which owns Van Dyck...
Community-based environmental education facilitators are being equipped with the knowledge and skills to positively transform their communities, as part of the City of Johannesburg’s commitment to create a sustainable green culture. About 50...
Untreated sewerage continues to spill into the Vaal River. This comes after two waste water treatment plants in the Matlosana local municipality, in the North West are dysfunctional. Some of the farmers along the river believe that the extent of...
Latest research shows that 64% of wetlands worldwide have been lost since 1900, and that 76% of populations of freshwater plants and animals have disappeared in the last 40 years alone according to the WWF’s Living Planet report....
The Water Research Commission’s (WRC) flagship Water Sensitive Design (WSD) Lighthouse was launched recently along with the two framework reports that have contributed to the development of the Lighthouse. In 2013, the Water Research Commission...
Polyco the Polyolefin Recycling Company, has released the names of the six successful applicants who will be receiving total investment loans of R7 million over the next 6 months to fund their existing polyolefin recycling operations. The company’s...
