Ensuring the sustainability and protection of 142 000ha of game rich savannah, a game reserve opened an Environmental Education Centre, to inspire the local youth and so encourage a sense of responsibility towards use of natural resources.
The World Future Council is calling for Ombudspersons for Future Generations. These would be guardians appointed at global, national and local levels whose job would be to help safeguard environmental and social conditions by speaking up authoritatively for future generations in all areas of policy-making.
Finding a solution to the short-term interests and ongoing unsustainable practices driving our societies and economies is a recurring issue. Few innovative ideas have emerged, fewer are being fully implemented and, as a consequence, we are exceeding planetary boundaries, threatening the security and wellbeing of those around us and those who follow us.
The Eco Kids Film Initiative (EKFI) is the first festival of its kind aiming to stimulate environmental awareness in young viewers. It is also the first children's film festival and the first environmental film festival on the African continent.
'She is the frame of the unexpected. A young girl with no rank and no title, just two small hands that carry her entire community. There are no facilities here; there are no green bins that line the streets, just her understanding.'
For the past week we've been doing a lot of climate talk, tree planting and painting with the aim to raise awareness about climate change. We've travelled through four cities and worked with over 3000 children and adults, but when we arrived in Klerksdorp on Friday, we were taught a couple new moves.
Imagine a world where each one of us instinctively recycled and the amount of waste to landfill is minimal to none.
My reason for choosing the 'Coffee-Can Drum' craft is; when I observe a young child banging on different surfaces two things becomes very clear; tapping on things comes very natural to us and forms part of how we discover this world.
Katy, or Oumatjie as the community calls her, runs from her small one bedroom home in Grootboom Street, Erijaville, Strand with arms waving.
Nature as teacher is the main principle behind The Center for Ecoliteracy's publication 'Smart by Nature - Schooling for Sustainability.. This requires thinking in terms of systems - one of nature's basic characteristics.
120 volunteers from Japan visited Swartkop Valley Primary School to help improve their food garden.
Last week two emails landed in my inbox. Two young boys were writing to me completely independently. They had started hearing animals speak to them.
The Earthchild Project in Cape Town was conceived while Janna was living in an eco-village in Brazil and reading the spiritual classic 'Autobiography of a Yogi'. 'The book describes the educational ideals of the ancient Indian rishis, namely that most instruction be given outdoors in nature, and that alongside academic subjects there be equal emphasis on teaching meditation and universal spiritual principles so as to develop the consciousness and not just the intellect of the child,' Janna explained.
There is a legend that the world rests on the back of a giant tortoise. And he rests on another tortoise, and another, etc. Its tortoises all the way down.
Over 200 school children from Khayalitshe collected nearly 100 bags of rubbish to transform stretches of Monwabisi Beach this weekend as part of the Our School Cares Programme. This is a Peninsula Beverages environmental initiative, in partnership with the Environmental Action Group. It is the third of eight beach and river clean ups for 2010.
In a country where child abuse and abandonment is rife, it is vital that the children are valued and protected properly ' and that everyone understands what amounts to child abuse and neglect. This was one of the aims of Child Protection Week that took place last week.
What do you do when temperatures reach single digits and its pouring rain outside? You cling to your hot water bottle or snuggle under a bunch of blankets - sometimes you don't even know how many. When you absolutely have to go outside, you wear a thick coat or a waterproof jacket and a scarf.
The fight to save the Mapungubwe region from the detrimental impact of coal mining has been strengthened this week, with the rights of future generations of South Africans to experience the region's cultural and natural splendour forming the basis of an expanded legal battle.
