The University of Pretoria has installed a solar water heating system, which – with a total 672m2 collector surface – is the biggest glazed installation in Southern Africa.

Zimbabwe will suffer a one million tonne maize deficit due to drought, after nearly half of the national crop now coming up for harvest has failed, state media said Friday.

Microsoft, Amazon and Apple are dirtying your data. Let's ask their CEOs to clean-up and quit coal.

Lucas is an all-round creative, specialising in editing, graphic design and web design. Lucas oversees the creative direction and maintenance of our site, always looking for ways to improve functionality or aesthetic appeal. He is also a musician, performing regularly at private and corporate events with his eco-conscious acoustic cover band, River Belle and has toured the country with The Pretty Blue Guns.

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Anti-poaching systems and initiatives already in place at the Pilanesberg National Park were furthered recently thanks to a donation of the latest communications technology.

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.

The Organic Grocer is an online organic food box delivery scheme that supplies fresh organic produce, delivered from the farm to your home or work in the Western Cape. Environmental integrity is important to us and all our produce is sourced locally. Our goal is to make quality organic food affordable and convenient.

Everyone these days is talking about Sustainable Living and Indigenous Plants. But what does Sustainability really mean? There are so many terms and confusing us seems to be the way to go.

During COP17 2011, we contributed stories to the official Climate Express newspaper.

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For a tsunami survivor the water, you would think, might be terrifying. But Chihiro Kanno launches herself into the swimming pool with a determined dive.

The proclamation of 22 April as International Mother Earth Day is an acknowledgement that the Earth and its ecosystems provide its inhabitants with life and sustenance.

New norms and standards for marking rhino horn and trophy hunting will be implemented immediately, Environmental Affairs Minister Edna Molewa said on Monday.

Hoe op aarde boer jy intensief sonder om koolstofdioksied te produseer?

Scientists confirm that a wave of highly radioactive waste is headed directly for the US coast, while authorities continue to keep everyone in the dark and push for more nuclear energy.

Easter weekend it was time to plant winter seedlings. However, I first had to pull up the last of my beautiful tomato harvest. So I found myself with an abundance of tomatoes. I decided to preserve the whole lot, even the green ones.

I have never been keen on beauty pageants. When I found out about the Miss Earth competition I was concerned that they were focusing on outer beauty instead of environmental passion and action. But I was wrong.

You can't get high on hemp, but you can create clothing, housing, food, fuel, natural plastics and other locally useful and globally marketable consumer products out of it. And oh yeah, did we mention jobs, and lots of them. Hemp is already a multi $ billion a year industry and growing.

A big part of our modern deluge of problems is the fact that there simply is no space left for waste. That is what is so great about recycling, especially when it comes to a packaging option as cost-effective and environmentally friendly as PET plastic.

Government will start targeting foreigners who come to South Africa for rhino trophy hunting, Environmental Affairs Minister Edna Molewa said on Wednesday.