According to scientists at Princeton University, as climate change gets worse, so too does interpersonal violence and social upheaval.
Every one of the planetry boundaries is trending in the wrong direction - we need to go for a radical transformation," says Peter Bakker in the overview of the key themes of the Cambridge Distinguished Lecture Series 2013, which featured accessible lectures by leading sustainability thinkers.
Could the lifestyle adaptations of Kalahari birds in response to rising temperatures be a signal of worse to come?
A public lecture by guest international speaker, David Bartlett, shone light on a new project to make the University of Cape Town’s (UCT) campus the first ‘smart campus’ in Africa.
The University of KwaZulu-Natal in Durban has a position for a Senior Lecturer (equivalent to Assistant Professor) in Marine Biology at the University of KwaZulu-Natal in Durban.
Joburg's St Stithians College has instituted a radical environmental programme on campus. In addition to a significant investment in energy saving, a comprehensive dry recycling programme and water saving programmes, the College has embarked on a food waste recycling programme.
In 2004, stakeholders tabled a wish list with the former Department of Environmental Affairs and Tourism, who had allocated a substantial amount of funds for the construction of a Botanical Garden and an Environmental Awareness Centre in the Limpopo Province. Their wishes have finally been realised.
Congratulations are in order for the University of the Western Cape (UWC). They were awarded the national Green Campus of the Year award for 2012 at the inaugural African Green Initiative conference, held earlier this month in P.E.
The greening of SA's economy can create 460 000 new jobs, says the Department of Higher Education and Training’s (DHET) Green Paper on post-school education and training.
The University of Pretoria has installed a solar water heating system, which – with a total 672m2 collector surface – is the biggest glazed installation in Southern Africa.
Hybrid cars, powered by a mixture of gas and electricity, have become a practical way to "go green" on the roads. Now researchers at Tel Aviv University are applying the term "hybrid" to power plants as well.
A state-of-the-art, eco-friendly library at the Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University€™s Missionvale Campus near Port Elizabeth will be completed soon, setting a new benchmark. Emphasis has been placed on the library€™s air-conditioning and lighting systems as they account for most of the energy consumption in the library.
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.
