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Acclaim for first vegan and plant powered show

December 3, 2020 Leave a Comment

South Africa’s much anticipated inaugural Festive Vegan and Plant Powered Show (FVPPS) took place online at the weekend and proved to be hugely successful. More than 1000 people took part in the six-hour event which featured cooking demonstrations from top local and international chefs, expert health and wellness speakers and a virtual shopping mall. Speaking from his … [Read more...]

South Africans plan mass global demonstration

August 29, 2020 Leave a Comment

The immense socio-economic impact under one of the world’s most extreme lockdowns during the Covid-19 pandemic has resulted in South Africans uniting for their voices to be heard under a grassroots movement called Move One Million. The movement, launched in July 2020, has garnered interest from half a million South Africans to date and organisers are using a combination of … [Read more...]

Blue Sky Awards launched in SA for young researchers

July 28, 2020 Leave a Comment

The local leg of the Blue Sky Young Researchers Innovation Award has been launched by the Paper Manufacturers Association of South Africa (PAMSA). The 2020-2021 round is the third edition of this award, organised by the International Council of Forest and Paper Associations (ICFPA), to which PAMSA belongs. It invites young students and researchers in wood and fibre-based … [Read more...]

Collapse of civilisation likely according to climate scientists

June 6, 2020 Leave a Comment

Australia’s top climate scientist says “we are already deep into the trajectory towards collapse” of civilisation, which may now be inevitable because 9 of the 15 known global climate tipping points that regulate the state of the planet have been activated. Australian National University emeritus professor Will Steffen (pictured) told Voice of Action that there was already a … [Read more...]

Climate change review: humbling lessons from Australia

April 2, 2020 Leave a Comment

Australia, like South Africa in the last week and so many other regions across the globe before, has instituted strict lockdown measures to combat the spread of the Coronavirus (COVID-19). Though this is not the first large scale crisis the country has been faced with since the start of the year, as just a few short months ago Australia was still making international headlines … [Read more...]

Wave of protest against rapid 5G rollout coming

December 1, 2019 2 Comments

So far, groups in the following countries have announced that they are organizing events on 25 January, 2020 as part of the Global Day of Protest against 5G: Australia Austria Canada Croatia Czech Republic Denmark France Germany Ireland Italy Japan Netherlands New Zealand Norway Poland Portugal Romania Serbia South … [Read more...]

Working together to prevent raptor electrocution

October 29, 2018 Leave a Comment

The Endangered Wildlife Trust (EWT) recently helped to make history in Australia when Constant Hoogstad, Senior Manager: Industry Partnerships, travelled to Tasmania to facilitate the formalisation of a partnership between Raptor Refuge, a local raptor rehabilitation centre, and Tasmania’s electricity company, TasNetworks. The Eskom/EWT strategic partnership is an example of … [Read more...]

South Africa: home to the world’s most endangered seahorse

September 3, 2018 Leave a Comment

The Knysna seahorse is only found in a small section of South Africa and is one of only two seahorse species in the world currently listed as endangered. Locals need to act quickly to save the remaining specimens. Many divers, particularly photographers, have a bucket list of all the species they want to see before age catches up with them and diving is no longer an option. … [Read more...]

What are directors’ duties in respect to climate change?

August 28, 2018 Leave a Comment

Directors need to factor climate change into their governance deliberations about strategy, risk management, products and services. So said Sue Lund, member of the Institute of Directors in SA (IODSA) at a recent discussion on directors’ duty of care for the current and long-term sustainability of their organisations – which should translate into measures that both mitigate … [Read more...]

Xolobeni community fights to stop Wild Coast titanium mining

May 22, 2018 Leave a Comment

On the 23rd to the 24th of April, a historic court case for mining-affected communities took place at the North Gauteng High Court in Tshwane. The Amadiba Crisis Committee, represented by their lawyers Richard Spoors Inc. and the Legal Resources Centre, took the Department of Mineral Resources to court in an attempt to get a declaratory order that would prevent proposed … [Read more...]

Right to food includes the right to nutrition

November 28, 2016 1 Comment

In South Africa, all citizens have the right to food. Yet the current approach is to focus on food security, forgetting that security doesn’t necessarily mean nutrition. The right to food wholeheartedly includes the right to nutrition. A recent dialogue event, hosted by the Centre for Complex Systems Transitions (CST) in Stellenbosch, raised some interesting views, current … [Read more...]

It’s time to break free from fossil fuels

April 19, 2016 Leave a Comment

There has never been a better time to break free from fossil fuels. Record-breaking global temperatures, plummeting fossil-fuel prices, historic investments in renewable energy, and global pressure to honour climate pledges are all coming together to create the ideal setting for this world-changing shift. The shift could not be more urgent. The United Nations climate … [Read more...]

Global support in wake of Wild Coast anti-mining assassination

April 6, 2016 1 Comment

Following the brutal murder of the ACC Chairman Bazooka Rhadebe, there has been an unbelievable global groundswell of support given in aid of the Amadiba Crisis Committee (ACC) and Sustaining The Wild Coast (SWC)'s mission to stop the extractive, cultural and environmentally destructive Australian mining company Mineral Commodities Limited (MRC) from destroying the ancestral … [Read more...]

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