To learn from each other's best practices with regards to waste management, recycling, the green economy and packaging initiatives, a global colloquium with leaders in the recycling and waste management industries will take place on 21 November 2013.

One thing that I have learnt in the green industry is to not judge a book by its cover – not to make any assumptions about how “green” or not anybody is.

Transparency and traceability were top of the agenda at the Ethical Fashion Forum's recent SOURCE Summit, but what will it take for the fashion industry to tackle the destruction it leaves in its wake?

Tuna is in trouble. It's is one of the world’s favourite fish, and the staple protein of millions, but it is overfished globally.

One can’t miss seeing the good-looking big red busses in and around Cape Town with the happy faces staring around from the open deck on top and I have always wanted to “hop-on” as their signage encourages us all to do. I recently looked into how they came to be SA’s first bus company to achieve ‘carbon neutral' status.

A new course is aimed at unlocking the opportunity for ongoing cross-sector engagement around key sustainability issues and responses.

The Eco-Logic Awards have announced that entries are now open for individuals and organisations to submit their products, services, innovations and achievements.

The latest diet fad to hit the country is the green coffee bean!

Greyton is a small rural community in the Overberg. In January 2012, Greyton became one of South Africa's first Transition Towns.

Could we ever fully appreciate and value the essential role which the oceans play in our world’s ecology and the future health of our planet? The Sea Pledge Saldanha to Sodwana Coastal Tour aims to generate opportunities for local communities who depend on the ocean.

Illegal fishing scandals and human rights abuses linked to South Korea’s fishing industry have earned the country a bad reputation that is jeopardising its fish trade with the US and the EU, Greenpeace East Asia said.

It is staggering how little companies, new to the sustainable-business agenda, understand the landscape in which they must operate (and of course I am not talking about the growing ranks of sustainability leaders who have highly sophisticated channels of communication with all stakeholders).

It’s not too late to avert a climate crisis but “pervasive human short-termism” makes it highly unlikely that society will do so in the next 40 years.

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.

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.

As the global population expands to 9 billion by 2050, we are set to spend trillions of dollars on supporting infrastructure that is likely to damage our climate.

Future of Fish is a nonprofit that is helping entrepreneurs who hope to reinvent the seafood industry by attacking problems throughout the long supply chains used by today's industrialized fisheries.

Have you started a business making a product that enables others to live more sustainably? This might be your chance to get your story told!

Indonesia’s Minister of Agriculture Suswono has praised sustainable palm oil practice in Dosan village, and says this initiative is a perfect example of the way large palm oil producers can remain profitable without further destroying the forests.

In an attempt to make cycling safer and reduce inner-city traffic, the cycle lane in Bree Street between Strand Street and Waterkant has been colourised green as a test phase.