During the recent JoBerg2C mountain bike race, BirdLife South Africa€™s €˜Fast and Featherless€™ team and their famous patron raised much needed funds and awareness for bird conservation in South Africa.
The United Nations designated 2011 €“ 2020 as the United Nations Decade on Biodiversity. The word is dropped into conversations daily, but we don€™t know how much it actually means for South Africa.
Numbers of the African penguin, which is endemic to South Africa and Namibia, are rapidly declining. Perhaps most of us aren€™t aware of this, but African penguins are up against climate change, overfishing, oil pollution and penguin egg and guano collection.
South Africa€™s regulating authorities need to improve their measures to prevent alien species which can become pests in the agricultural sector from crossing our borders and causing damage.
Non-profit organisation, Mamelani Projects hosted their own €˜Move for Health Day, Saturday, May 6th, 2011 at the Chris Campbell Memorial field in Khayelitsha.
Industrial conflict and protests that are currently taking place in South Africa may cause unwanted disruption, but it is a positive sign that those who are doing so have the freedom to express their sentiments in a peaceful way.
the past weekend's earthquake in the southern cape shows us once again that south africa is not invincible. nuclear power can have the same effects on our country as it did on japan. after two of our green times journalists went to see the documentary the nuclear comeback at the labia with earth life africa and while you were sleeping, they felt the need to tell the rest of south africa to watch it too. the film was directed by justin pemberton in 2008.
By 2050, humanity could devour an estimated 140 billion tons of minerals, ores, fossil fuels and biomass per year €“ three times the current appetite €“ unless the economic growth rate is 'decoupled€ from the rate of natural resource consumption.
This is according to a new United Nations (UN) report released this Thursday and lead co-authored by Professor Mark Swilling, the Head of the Sustainable Development Programme of the School of Public Leadership (SPL) at Stellenbosch University (SU).
Hamburg, Germany - The new IPCC report on renewable energy provides a litmus test for all policy makers, proving renewable energy is the world€™s number one energy source in the future. Furthermore, the report provides evidence to show that the deployment of renewable energy especially in developing countries is faster and more cost efficient than the combustion of fossil fuels and nuclear power. In a statement released by the World Future Council (WFC) in Hamburg today, however, the WFC criticises the report for falling too short in making concrete policy recommendations. The WFC also stated that the report fails to suggest efficient measures to finance the renewable energy uptake.
THE NAKED OPTION: A LAST RESORT celebrates the power of an organized group of women! Fueled by the determination for a better future, grassroots women in Nigeria's Niger Delta use the threat of stripping naked in public, a serious cultural taboo, in their deadly struggle to hold the oil companies accountable to the communities in which they work.
Looking back at the Victorian era it's striking how beautifully smooth these ladies and gentlemen's skin were. Notice the glowing hair? Perhaps less toxins were present in the air and water at that time, but they definitely also had a recipe for success when it comes to skin and hair products.
Outdoor Site_Specific Art (or Land Art) combines natural elements like landscaping, permanently sculptured elements, rocks, sticks, soil and plants to create artworks which heighten and challenge appreciation of the beauty of our natural surroundings. Although in time the artworks will be reclaimed by the environment, traces remain to challenge the interpretation and enjoyment of the site and to highlight man's transitory role in nature.
Earthlife Africa and anti-fracking activists are calling for a National Boycot off Shell. This countrywide boikot will start on Tuesday, 17 May and last until the Government bans all fracking or Shell withdraws its application to frack for shale gas in the Karoo. This urgent and important action will start fromt 17 May 2011 and continue until the danger of fracking in this country is halted.
The Naked Option: A Last Resort celebrates the power of an organized group of women! Fueled by the determination for a better future, grassroots women in Nigeria's Niger Delta use the threat of stripping naked in public, a serious cultural taboo, in their deadly struggle to hold the oil companies accountable to the communities in which they work.
