Even in these belt-tightening times, consumers worldwide are going green, showing with their wallets an increased interest in products that have been produced in an environmentally conscious manner.

This year the Indigenous Plant Fair returns to its roots at the KZN Botanic Gardens in Pietermaritzburg. Since those early days (2004), the Fair has grown to include food plants as well as hundreds of indigenous plants and, in 2012, to embrace low-carbon living by showcasing sustainable solutions too.

Our essence of life comes from the Almighty and our home, Earth. As much as both may seem infinite, one is not. With the rapid and insatiable human indulgence for what we deem as necessity (both necessary and unnecessary) happening across the globe, we keep demanding more from earth than we care to replace.

Essential in growing your own food is to keep it green all the way. So we will always be utilising waste items for all the processes which we teach. You don’t need to rush out and purchase special equipment.

Registrations are underway for the 3rd Annual Waste Management and Recycling conference, which will be held on 18 &19 April 2013 in Johannesburg.

This year, Fairtrade Week is celebrated from 25 February to 3 March. A local retailer invites all coffee aficionados to indulge in their favourite pastime with abandon, and a clear conscience.

Do you know how local governments are greening up and developing their sustainability endeavours? If you're like most people, you don't, so read on to change that.

The day is a special one – a day of celebration. It is young Clement’s 11th birthday and he is loving every minute of it.

Dr Mamphela Ramphele on Monday declared her intention to form a party political platform for all South Africans “that will focus on rekindling hope that building the country of our dreams is possible in our lifetime."

Electronics companies that make energy-efficient printers and scanners that are free of toxic materials are likely to get a boost in sales, thanks to EPEAT opening up its product registry to include imaging equipment.

Japan's fisheries agency says it has temporarily suspended its Southern Ocean whale hunt after clashes with anti-whaling activists.

The 4-day PRASA entrepreneurship course took place at the Tsitsikamma National Park, and covered aspects ranging from the technicalities of recycling and waste collection to business management skills.

Some might like it hot, but extreme heat can overpower the human body. An expert from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) explains how heat kills and why fans are worthless in the face of truly high temperatures.

The fallout from the Fukushima nuclear disaster continues for hundreds of thousands of victims in Japan, who are still denied fair compensation from a regulatory system that allows the nuclear industry to evade its responsibilities and forces the public to pay for its disasters, reports Greenpeace.

EU Climate Commissioner Connie Hedegaard says Barack Obama’s State of the Union pledge to tackle climate change is a sign that science not ideology will guide his second term.

Food Lovers Market in Noordhoek, Cape Town is the first retailer in South Africa to truly invest towards a zero waste solution by adopting a composting method which breaks down cooked food waste, helping to minimise the strain on our overflowing landfills.

Think of the millions of footsteps the average person takes in a lifetime. Now, multiply that by the billions of people on the planet. That’s a lot of steps.

Hours after a meteor exploded over Russia and injured more than 1,000 people and an asteroid passed relatively close to Earth, residents in California reported seeing an unusual flash of light over the San Francisco Bay area that left many startled and thrilled.

Development work at the Medupi power plant remains suspended owing to a prolonged labour dispute between subcontractors and workers, which was intensified by the arrest on Friday of 46 workers following violent protests at the Medupi site.

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.