This year's YES Environmental Drama Festival was held at the Baxter Theatre last week. Participating schools and the audience were asked to examine electricity consumption and safety.
Former president Nelson Mandela's health has shown sustained improvement, President Jacob Zuma said at a Youth Day celebration in KwaZulu-Natal on Sunday.
The Wastewant Youth Recycling Co-Operative Limited is a youth owned operation that aims to keep youth off the street and facilitate their development by creating jobs for disadvantaged young people.
Wanted: school hostels, feeding schemes, or community gardens in the Boland that want to dispose of their large volumes of garden refuse or leftover food in a “green” way, and in addition also wish to reap the economic rewards of their efforts.
The Miss Earth South Africa walked away with top honours in the Young Entrepreneur category at the Inaugural South African Premier Business Awards held at the Sandton Convention Centre in Johannesburg recently.
19-year-old Boyan Slat has unveiled plans to create an Ocean Cleanup Array that could remove 7,250,000 tons of plastic waste from the world’s oceans.
It's not always easy getting folks into the habit of cleaning up after themselves and seeing that trash gets to the correct place to be recycled. Sometimes it helps to add a little incentive.
Akim Riemer wears doc martins, a ragged vest, a green bandana and dark glasses. There is a raw energy here that wants to spread like wildfire. I don’t need to see his eyes to know that they flash with insight and delight with his every new idea.
Imagine not being able to smile, or even eat, drink or speak normally. One in about every 1000 babies are born with either a cleft lip or palate - which can easily be repaired by a one hour operation that will help these children lead normal and happy lives.
The names of the winning schools that entered the sixth annual Clean-Up & Recycle Competition have now been announced.
Volunteers from all walks of life gathered in Livingstone, Zambia during July 2012 and found common ground in a passion for the environment. Sindy Peters tells us about her experience joining the "treevolution."
49M has acquired naming rights for Rocking The Daisies, SA’s greenest annual music festival. The partnership is in line with the energy movement’s strategic intent to penetrate South Africa’s young market as the key drivers for social and behavioural change.
A few lucky GSN members will get the opportunity to take an all-expenses-paid trip to the Umgeni Valley Nature Reserve in Howick, to attend the student networking meeting "GSN Indibano" from 26 - 29 August. All travel and accommodation expenses will be paid by SAEON.
Twenty years ago, the United Nations summit held in Rio de Janeiro paved the way for landmark agreements on the climate and the environment. This year's meeting, on the other hand, has been widely criticized for its lack of vision in the face of accelerating degradation of the planet.
In keeping with Youth Month, some of the objectives of the Youth Summit included educating the youth on various issues of waste and pollution management, promoting and demonstrating poverty alleviation and job creation through waste management projects.
“If the bulldozers come my wife must look for another husband because I will fight to the end…”
Over the past 21 years the WWF-Nedbank Green Trust has contributed nearly R115 million to more than 180 environmental projects in South Africa.
The Cape Town Celebrate Life Festival is held from 9-10 June at the River Club, Liesbeek Parkway, Cape Town from 10.00-17.00 both days. There will be interesting speakers, both local and international, an eco-quiz with cool green prizes by our editor, a talk on container food gardening, workshops, concerts, exhibitions and stalls on both days.
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.
Support WWF's global eco-friendly campaign, Earth Hour, with a special lantern that has been designed to hold a single candle, so users can switch out the lights at 8.30pm on Saturday 31 March 2012, for 60 minutes.
