Now conscientious shoppers can make use of durable shopping bags made entirely from recycled PET plastic – ticking ALL the boxes for the greenest shopper ever.

“If a man aspires towards a righteous life, his first act of abstinence is from injury to animals,” said Albert Einstein.

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.

Woolworths introduced their “Good Business Journey” back in 2007. This is their comprehensive plan to involve their customers and their staff in making a difference in four key areas:  transformation, social development, the environment and climate change - all challenges facing not only South Africa, but the world at large.

Read more about the Woolworths Good Business Journey here.

‘Farming for the Future’ is a holistic approach based on working with nature instead of against it, which seeks to combine the best of conventional farming with the best of organic farming. Woolworths recently audited 15 of their largest fruit and vegetable growers, who supply some 37% fresh produce on a total area of about 45 000 hectares.

Engen has confirmed that to date it has collected more than 200 tons of waste for recycling, following the joint launch with partners Woolworths and Nampak of a recycling pilot project at 12 Engen service stations in Cape Town in 2009.

Thousands of offices at some of the world's leading corporations supported WWF's Earth Hour 'lights out' initiative this year, joining the call for effective action on climate change. Companies encouraged staff to join the hundreds of millions of other individuals from every continent who turned their lights off for one hour at 8.30 pm on Saturday, 27 March.

Extrupet has just become the first recycler in Africa to produce food grade recycled PET (rPET) for the food and beverage industry.

Retailers and recycling organisations are coming together to help curb the impact of waste products in our country.

Finally we can now purchase sandwiches packed in recycled plastic ' thumbs up for Woolies!

The latest audits of Woolworths 15 largest fruit and vegetable growers, who supply some 37% of Woolies fresh produce on a total area of about 45 000 hectares, show that Farming for the Future, Woolworths pioneering holistic approach to farming, is achieving what it sets out to do...

Woolworths has become the first South African company to become a member of the Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO), a global organisation which has developed a set of standards that address the legal, economic, environmental and social requirements of producing sustainable palm oil.

It was a delight this morning to attend the opening of the innovative Woolworths 'greenest store yet' at the new Palmyra Junction shopping centre in Claremont, Cape Town.  This funky green space is surely the greenest foodmarket in South Africa.

The Ask Afrika Trust Barometer is the preferred local corporate reputation and trust benchmark. It is currently in its fifth year running, and is based on an expert panel of 200 telephonic interviews with CEOs, EXCO and senior managers reporting directly to the EXCO of JSE-listed companies.

Every action we take falls into one of 2 categories ' it either destroys or heals the earth. For the future of our planet we need to place every aspect of our lives under a microscope and each time ask: What is the end result of this choice of mine on the planet as a whole. Does it benefit the protection of all species, including people, and all natural resources, or does it destroy our delicate web of life?

Kilimanjaro's melting ice cap is directly threatening Tanzania's coffee farmers, who are reliant on the glacier melt for water. These organic coffee farmers live and grow their coffee under the shady forest canopies on the slopes of Kilimanjaro. As the ice disappears there is less water to grow their crops.

In the Cape we are lucky to have had some rain ' finally. Hopefully our dams are rising a little and the water table is being replenished for the summer crops to drink from. So we are chuffed to bring you today the next story in the Woolworths Good Business Journey, where they tap into an underground water supply to meet some of their daily water needs.