Have you ever wondered how biodiversity science affects your everyday life? If so, a visit to Kirstenbosch Botanical Garden on International Biodiversity Day on 22 May can give you many of the answers.
Everyone these days is talking about Sustainable Living and Indigenous Plants. But what does Sustainability really mean? There are so many terms and confusing us seems to be the way to go.
This is a multi-award winning documentary film about practical “closed loop” thinking. But what does that mean? In a closed loop system there is no such thing as waste.
Tonight, an important film is being shown at The Hub in Woodstock. "How to save the world - One Man, One Cow, One Planet".
And ACTION! The second annual Eco Kids Film Initiative film festival is calling for entries.
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.
William Shakespeare has proven it to us countless times; theatre is a great way of teaching a community to bring about change. Ten high school learners from Walmer Township near Port Elizabeth have helped develop a play that illustrates the dangers of pollution using physical theatre, puppetry and improvisational theatre.
These days few can dispute mankind is in dire need of alternative, renewable and sustainable energy sources. Few can moreover argue the necessity for energy development that does not come at the adverse auxiliary cost to the environment.
South African vultures are in serious trouble, especially the Cape Vulture, which is critically endangered, with only 2900 breeding pairs remaining. Reasons for their decline are varied, but include problems such as pylon injuries, malicious poisonings, muti killings and insufficient food sources.
There is a war going on in Antarctica, and South Africa€™s Rosie Kunneke is one of the soldiers fighting the good fight. She recently returned to the country after 94 days at sea, participating in the world famous reality television series Whale Wars.
A thousand students in green overalls, cheekily called the green police, raised awareness on campus during their recent Green Week. Known as the Green Campus Initiative, they are the biggest and fastest-growing society at UCT €“ started in 2007.This year they received R2000 in funding from the university, which seems incomprehensibly meagre.
The sensitive shells of Pteropods in the oceans are dissolving as they absorb high levels of carbon from the atmosphere and become more acidic. These tiny snail-like, delicate creatures with flapping €˜wings€™ are affectionately called €˜sea angels€™ and live in planktonic form in the oceans.
The End of the Line, the first major documentary film revealing the impact of overfishing on our oceans, had its world premiere at the Sundance Film Festival in January this year.
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.
International Rivers is proud to announce our new 22-minute movie on the movement to protect rivers and rights. It was made by an independent filmmaker from Mexico, and filmed mostly at the "Rivers for Life" meeting of activists that took place in Mexico in October.
`Water is the driving force of all nature.`- Leonardo da Vinci Water - the most common substance on earth. It is with us every moment of everyday, but do we know the secrets of this amazing element. From agriculture, to factories and hydropower, we put water to work in a million different ways every day.
