Happiness in a Handbasket
Friday, 17 January 2014 11:53
One of the really useful and informative books I came across recently helped me to understand more deeply how our shopping habits impact on our world. Here is my interview with Ute Kuhlmann who wrote “Happiness in a Handbasket – Buy Local, the practical guide.”
Denialists’ disdain for science a vital human rights issue
Friday, 17 January 2014 11:37
The public debate about climate change is an aberration. We do not have debates in newspapers about the validity of medical science, physics, aeronautics, geology or genetics. So what is different about climate science?
Dying for water in Brits
Tuesday, 14 January 2014 15:49
Now people are losing their lives over water. No water for a week left the community of Madibeng desperate, angry and protesting. Two men were shot dead, apparently by police.
West Virginia water restrictions come to an end
Tuesday, 14 January 2014 14:07
Sandra Fisher heard the sound of running water in her Charleston, West Virginia, home on Monday for the first time in four days after a chemical leak fouled water supplies for hundreds of thousands of people.
SA water challenge Part 2: Conflicts over water interests
Monday, 13 January 2014 14:49
The challenges with water as our life giving and most threatened resource, especially in Africa, continues to be one of our core focus areas of this year.
Doing good is good for business
Monday, 13 January 2014 14:41
There is a new movement afoot, which is a ray of hope in our very bleak looking environmental future.
UNESCO publishes climate change guidebook for journalists
Monday, 13 January 2014 12:34
African media can and should do more to tell the story of climate change, observes a new UNESCO publication, titled Climate Change in Africa: A Guidebook for Journalists.
Russia to develop SA’s nuclear energy sector
Friday, 10 January 2014 18:02
Russia's state-owned nuclear power company has signed an agreement to build eight new reactors in South Africa.
Wild Knysna elephant caught on camera
Friday, 10 January 2014 14:45
Green NGO The Landmark Foundation recently took some rare photos of an elusive elephant in the Knysna forest, while researching the leopard population status in the Garden Route.
Laingsburg hit by worst flood in 33 years
Friday, 10 January 2014 12:33
Laingsburg was again under siege, hit by what some said was the worst flooding since the terrible flood of 33 years ago that wiped out half the buildings in town.
