Alice Ashwell lives in Marina da Gama with her husband Pat Garratt. She loves living in Cape Town, between the mountains and the sea. She is inspired by the love, care and commitment of South Africans who make a positive difference in their communities in every possible aspect of life. After working as a biochemist, Alice became a teacher, and later an environmental educator. Since 1999 she has had her own business, EnviroEds, specialising in nature experiences and environmental education. She obtained a PhD in Education from UCT in 2010.

Minister Shabangu’s announcement last Friday of the Department of Mineral Resource’s pro-fracking decision to cabinet ripped like wild fire through environmental circles the past week. If there is one issue that can unite all the different green role players in this country, I think it’s this one.

Fuel saving, alternative energy, water saving, organic foods, office equipment, household products and even green toys: this expo is destined to become a regular on your calendar.

The world’s largest annual volunteer effort for ocean health, the International Coastal Clean-Up (ICC), will once again take place this year on Saturday, 15 September. Volunteers from all walks of life will hit the country’s beaches in an effort to keep our country’s beaches beautiful and litter free.

Arbor Week was celebrated nationally from 01 to 07 September, and in 2012, the Institute of Waste Management of Southern Africa (IWMSA) urges all South Africans to heed the call to respect and nurture the greenbelts in our urban areas.

South Africa has been granted US$3.5m for integrated fire management programmes in the Fynbos biome, a fire-dependent ecosystem particularly vulnerable to unwanted wildland fire triggered by climate change.

The Gaia Education Design for Sustainability (GEDS) course has become an important reference in the field of sustainability. The course is based on the four key dimensions of sustainability proposed by Gaia Education - the social, ecological, economic and worldview dimensions – as an integral and holistic approach to sustainable design.

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."

It's time to celebrate! Four years ago the Global Women’s Water Initiative welcomed 50 grassroots women leaders from all over Sub-Saharan Africa and the United States to launch their first Women and Water Training in Nairobi, Kenya.

Save our Planet – Plant a Tree reached a new milestone of 10 000 indigenous trees donated to school pupils and residents of Pretoria so far this year.

The current icy weather, which has brought snow and ice to widespread areas of Gauteng and closed Van Reenen’s Pass in KwaZulu-Natal, has highlighted the need for businesses transporting cargo around the country to put risk management strategies in place to protect themselves from massive potential losses in damages and delays.

An American owned company with a track record of illegality and links to private equity giant Blackstone Group is threatening to destroy rainforests and dislocate local communities in Cameroon, Africa.

The Princess Vlei Forum, a non-partisan group of citizens concerned about a proposed commercial development on the shores of Princess Vlei, Grassy Park, is Standing for the Princess for five days: 17 - 21 September. Anyone is welcome to join.

Climate change is accelerating, but there’s a massive ray of hope: clean energy is booming, producing nearly 20% of the world's electricity! Incredibly, the US and EU are threatening to stifle this breakthrough - but together we can stop them.

South Africa has lifted a moratorium on shale gas exploration in the country's semi-arid Karoo region, where the extraction technique of "fracking" might be deployed, minister in the presidency Collins Chabane said on Friday.

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.

Global fashion retailer H&M; has committed to a global ban on any further use of Perflourinated Compounds (PFCs) by 1 January 2013.

Australian companies are trying to push through a scandalous proposal to build the world’s largest coal port right over the Great Barrier Reef, risking the survival of this entire amazing world heritage site.

Currently over half of the world’s 7 billion live in urban areas. That number is expected to reach 65 percent by 2050, according to the United Nations (UN).

Living fences are a sustainable and beautiful alternative to conventional construction. This offers farmers, wildlife, and plants numerous advantages.