We had the pleasure this week to experience hands-on the largest single rooftop solar installation in Africa, generating 542.4kW power. The impressive “White House’ Vodacom office building in Century City, Cape Town had all of 3600m² of roof tiles removed and replaced by solar panels.

The Africa Centre for Biosafety (ACB) has dismissed the findings of the biotechnology industry's flagship annual report, published by the GM industry funded 'NGO', the International Service for the Acquisition of Agri-biotech Applications (ISAAA), as mischievous and erroneous.

Stephen Lamb and Andrew Lord's Green Shack featured at Design Indaba 2013 last week. They tell us about the concept that transforms temporary spaces into homes.

“I have a confession to make. I wasn't born a greenie, I didn't have a passion for it at high school or anything like that. I was actually in banking, believe it or not.”

Fund managers of incentive schemes want to be sure that the energy that is being saved, which they are paying for, is in fact true savings.

The City of Cape Town’s Water and Sanitation Department is appealing to all residents to please adhere to the specified times for watering gardens, lawns and plants in order to prevent water wastage.

The Minister of Finance Pravin Gordhan gave the Budget Speech for 2013 in Parliament late last month. Problems such as sluggish economic growth, a widening budget deficit, declining tax revenues and higher debt levels all weighed heavily on the choices the Treasury had to make in the R1.06-trillion budget.

An exciting partnership promises to assist the Endangered Wildlife Trust in combating illegal hunting with dogs, especially when threatened species such as Oribi are targeted.

Deforestation and desertification are critical problems in India that have led to barren land, increased soil erosion, decreased agricultural production, and devastated local wildlife. However, one Indian man has made a stand.

Denmark has committed to help South Africa meet its future goals of a low carbon economy and reducing the growth of greenhouse gases through the deployment of low carbon technologies in the country.

Since 2004, cities across the world have co-created and shared the experience of the world's largest naked event that seeks to create environmental awareness through clean initiatives such as cycling.

Youth-focussed environmental organisation, Generation Earth, launched the concept of its second Youth Summit in Johannesburg late last year. This year’s Summit will take place on 9 March.

In March 2011, the 49M initiative was launched to encourage all South Africans to cut their energy consumption by 10%, aiming to inspire and rally the country behind a common goal to save electricity.

Thembani Bukula, chairman of the National Energy Regulator of SA (Nersa) electricity sub-committee, explained why the regulator cut Eskom’s price hike from the requested 16 percent a year for five years to 8 percent a year.

Nedbank Capital recently scooped three prestigious awards at the 2012 Project Finance Deal of the Year Awards held in London at the luxurious Grand Connaught Hotel.

Taxes on power generation, if not widespread, are becoming increasingly popular in Europe, as governments target utilities making significant profits from burning cheap coal in a low carbon price environment, states a GlobalData energy consultant.

New data shows that China is now burning almost as much coal as the rest of the world combined.

It’s a known fact that hollywood heartthrob Leonardo DiCaprio, along with being an extremely talented actor is a hardcore environmentalist. Check out this message he posted on the Avaaz activist site.

Meteorologist Paul Douglas is moderating a discussion with artist Cynthia Hopkins, whose climate change-themed show, This Clement World, comes to the Walker next week.

As if Europe’s horse meat problem weren’t enough, consumers in South Africa have just learned they may have been eating donkey burgers, goat sausage, and water buffalo lunch meat.