John Cooper, a research associate of the DST-NRF Centre of Excellence for Invasion Biology (CIB) at Stellenbosch University, was recently honoured for his career of nearly four decades dedicated to the research on and conservation of seabirds.

Running a home office can be like a virus that gradually spreads throughout your space. Yet the more travelling is avoided and time is saved, the greener and more efficiently your initiative is running.

Become part of the urgent declaration for the rights of Mother Earth. The Rights of Nature is emerging as one of the key alternatives to what many critics call severe shortcomings in the current draft proposals centering on a new Green Economy – RIO+20’s main theme to take forward the initiatives of the 1992 Earth Summit.

In the pursuit of a greener, healthier lifestyle we are constantly on the lookout for new ways to turn our wasteful lives into a more logical nature-simulating exercise, as Nature is always our best teacher. In nature there is no waste – everything is re-used to benefit some other organism, often as food.

This is a multi-award winning documentary film about practical “closed loop” thinking. But what does that mean? In a closed loop system there is no such thing as waste.

The World Bank has partnered with the government of South Africa and others to conserve and protect South Africa's biodiversity.

Greenpeace has launched 'Shadowlands', a presentation of haunting photographs depicting the impacts of the Fukushima nuclear disaster, the plight of people displaced by the crisis, and a warning to others that a serious nuclear accident can happen everywhere there are reactors.

Municipal service delivery in terms of domestic household waste collection and disposal currently varies from very poor to good in South African cities and towns. The Institute of Waste Management of Southern Africa (IWMSA) has identified a few key issues which require resolution over the next five years so that significant progress can be achieved within this critical field.

A once an under-greened and neglected area in the outskirts of Durban will soon be boasting with countless lush trees once their home-grown yellowwood and paw-paw trees start spouting up like skyscrapers around them.

The integrated waste-tyre management plan, which we reported on last week, has been withdrawn after concerns over how the plan was gazetted, were raised by the industry. This plan was meant to generate an estimated 15 000 local jobs and see an end to South Africa’s escalating tyre pollution problem.

The world practically runs on pneumatic tyres, but getting rid of them is an environmental nightmare.

A fish disease, Epizootic Ulceritic Syndrome or EUS for short, was recently diagnosed by researchers from the Aquaculture Research Division of the Department of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries, in barbel from a farm dam near Stellenbosch and is threatening to affect most species.

Wynter was born in Cape Town, South Africa in 1969.

She has always had a very special connection with animals, and worked with animal rescue from an early age.

After realising that inter-species communication is a very real thing, with the help of various mentors and the animals themselves she started developing her own ability to "talk with the animals". She now helps people and their animal companions to understand each other on a deeper level,offering healing and support to both the animals and their humans.

Her career started in South Africa, where she was born and raised. It then took her to England for five years, where she continued her work with animals and started teaching people how to develop their own ability to communicate with animals on a telepathic level. She is now based back in South Africa where she has started working closely with the African wildlife.

Wynter now teaches workshops in the UK, Europe and Southern Africa.

Mildred Mkandla, known as “Mama Maji” (Mama Water in Swahili) is the “MacGyver” of rainwater harvesting.

At the turn of 2009/2010, local filmmaker Daréll Lourens and her friend Simone van Keulen had the vision of Earth Junkies, an eco- awareness journey aiming to travel overland through Africa, the Middle East and Europe and work with children to foster ecological citizenship in their foundation years. 2 years have passed and the project has finally realized.

So far in this series we have covered how to plan your organic vegetable garden, increase your soil health, plant your crops and make compost. We have also discussed the benefits of mulching and how to weed and prune in the small-scale vegetable garden. After a few months without an article, it’s time to begin the series again. In a prelude to next month's article on what to plant in winter, this article looks at some intelligent tips for watering.

Die Bybel is nie ‘n wetenskaphandboek nie. Daar is baie aspekte van ons daaglikse moderne lewe wat glad nie deur die Bybel aangespreek word nie. ‘n Goeie voorbeeld is die ekologiese krisis waarmee ons vandag gekonfronteer word. Reg? Verkeerd! In Ernst Conradie se 'Rus vir die hele aarde' wemel dit van Bybelverse met ‘n ekologiese inslag – van Genesis reg deur tot in Openbaring.

A supermarket started an earthworm farm at their packing stores in Kraaifontein to dispose of their organic waste in a responsible way. The vermicast was used in their office gardens. But when they wanted to expand their buildings, something had to make way and the worms were chosen.

"The source of energy in the future is going to be clean energy, but no single source will dominate. You wouldn't put a solar on the windy planes of North Dakota if you could put a turbine there," said Rick Needham, Google's director of green business operations in a recent interview.

The inner workings of a libertarian thinktank working to discredit the established science on climate change have been exposed by a leak of confidential documents detailing its strategy and fundraising networks.