PennWell Corporation has announced the launch of Renewable Energy World Africa, which will be co-located with the inaugural POWER-GEN Africa conference & exhibition to be held in Johannesburg, RSA on 6-8 November 2012.

Africa can do better than invest faith and state resources in yet another Ponzi scheme — the ‘privatisation of the air’.

The very definition of the word points to a long-term strategy, integral to every operation that intends to survive and be successful. Sustainability need not be incorporated into business at the expense of development and profitability. It is the essence of long-term development and profitability, which has a survival connotation to the notion.

The final countdown to the winner announcement begins!

South Africa has an average of over 2,500 hours of sunshine annually. The country's solar radiation output is over twice that of Europe and one of the highest outputs in the world. This makes it a perfect climate for solar energy.

One of the serious fall-outs of the war on nature that crept into our society like a thief in the night - gradually and veiled as ‘progress’ – is the battery chicken industry.

Copiers and office equipment are notoriously greedy consumers of energy, even when sitting idle. Yet we cannot run a business, school or educational institution without this essential equipment.

A lot of producers claim to manufacture green mobile phones: but how to separate the greenwash from the green facts? How can you make informed decisions about the eco credentials of your phone?

“How do we do well by doing good?” This was the focus of the Green Team event at Spier of our previously local, but now national, leading waste minimisation company, Wasteplan.

Nedbank’s Green Index Outperformed The ALSI By More Than 30% Since July 2008; an Exchange Traded Fund (ETF) aimed at institutional and retail investors.

The world has finite resources and raw materials to supply us with. People are using these resources and degrading our environments faster than the planet can recover them. This threatens the promise of progress for future generations. This is why ensuring environmental sustainability is one of the United Nation’s Millennium Development Goals.

Now that we know that it is possible for a car rental company to be super serious about their water and carbon footprints, what are they doing about their waste? Avis has invested significantly in the implementation of a comprehensive waste management programme throughout the business.

Biomass production in Mozambique. Smart chips for solar hot water panels. New ways of turning sewage into electricity. All interesting new inventions we enjoyed at the Viridis Africa conference, which was definitely worthwhile to attend and meet great minds helping us shape solutions to the impending climate crisis.

With the costs of fuel rising to ever-depressing heights, the time is right for an alternative option. Luckily, Tata Motors is ready to introduce MiniCAT, the car which runs on compressed air!

SWC welcomes the recent decision by Minister Ndebele for a review of tolling as a means of financing road construction. This decision provides a partial vindication of SWC's decade long campaign against the N2 Wild Coast Toll road proposal and public concerns about the exclusion of the social and economic impacts of tolling in the EIA process.  

As concerns about the economic impact of climate change grows, more and more businesses and individuals are getting the environmental message at last!  Every action in our lives can stand scrutiny from an environmental perspective.

The Green Building Council of South Africa (GBCSA) has announced the launch of the Pilot Certification Programme of the 4th Green Star SA rating tool ' the Green Star SA Public & Education Building PILOT Rating Tool.

The ICC has received a certificate confirming that the Durban International Convention Centre's Environmental Management System complies with the rigorous performance standards set by the International Standards Organisation.

Now it's becoming easier to rent a car with a clear conscience.

'Any company or government department that doesn't comply with the environmental laws could face bills amounting to billions of rands and might even be compelled to shut down.'

The Two Oceans Aquarium was recently awarded Platinum status by the Heritage Environmental Management Company in recognition of its efforts towards sustainability and reducing the impact of its operations on the environment. This achievement comes just four years after the first audit when the Aquarium achieved Silver status.

There are still people who believe that economy and ecology are mutually exclusive systems. How then did the earth thrive for so many millions of years?

The Heritage Environmental Management Company today announced the introduction of the new Green Globe App for Apple mobile devices ' an application promoting responsible tourism businesses across the continent and globally.

Nedbank has received a 4-star rating for green office design from the Green Building Council of South Africa (GBCSA) for its new regional head office currently underway at Menlyn Maine, Africa's first green city.

Proudly South African announced the winners of their 5th Annual Homegrown Awards competition at a glamorous gala dinner event celebrated at Sandton Convention Centre sponsored by PetroSA.  

The green movement in the built environment is spreading like wildfire and in the month of September alone the Green Building Council of South Africa (GBCSA) certified three new green buildings in SA under the Green Star SA rating system.

Have you ever wondered how factories would operate if they had environmental responsibility fully integrated into their functioning?