“We travel far to come baptise people here because this is natural water, with spiritual power."
Justine shares her transformative and influential experience taking part in the Stepping Up to Environmental Leadership course held recently in Cape Town.
A new course is aimed at unlocking the opportunity for ongoing cross-sector engagement around key sustainability issues and responses.
12-year-old Kehkashan Basu has been appointed as youth advisor for the World Future Council.
While politians at the UN Climate Talks agreed to a second commitment period of the Kyoto Protocol, it was judged so full of loopholes as to have little or no effect on carbon emissions.
Citing widespread insecurity, the squandering of vast funds on deadly weapons instead of economic development, and the growing impact of climate change, United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon warned the world last month that it is in a race against time to save itself.
Dr Reuel Khoza has recently authored the book 'Attuned Leadership: African Humanism as Compass,' which provides a richly reflective discussion on leadership and transformation. In a world where tyrants abound in corporations and in states, his book gives direction to ethical leadership.
How ambitious are our leaders prepared to be at the G20 and Rio+20 Summits next month?
Proudly African human rights activist, Kumi Naidoo, has taken over as the Greenpeace International Executive Director. Dr Kumi Naidoo is well known for his extensive human rights activism as well as his work in civil society.
Phindile Mangwana, a UWC Environmental and Water Sciences graduate on a two-year Table Mountain Fund (TMF) internship programme at WESSA Western Cape, has won a prize for his Khayelitsha Environmental Education Programme (KEEP) and has been selected to join the 2010 Bayer Young Environmental Envoy Programme.
In a first for Nelson Mandela Bay, environmental education has been included in the curriculum of the Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University (NMMU) Business School through a partnership with the Wilderness Foundation of Southern Africa.
