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Are cell phones to blame for the health decline of millennials?

June 10, 2019 4 Comments

Millennials — the first generation to grow up using cell phones — are experiencing an unprecedented decline in their health when they reach their late 20s. On April 24, 2019, the American health insurance association Blue Cross Blue Shield released a report titled “The Health of Millennials.” It showed not only that the health of this generation takes a sharp decline … [Read more...]

A commitment to sustainable communication

June 13, 2012 Leave a Comment

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For mobile phone companies, the challenge of sustainability means maximising the positive, enabling effect of mobile technology, while minimizing the possible negative affect of such activities. A new report tackling these issues has recently been published. According to Nokia CEO Stephen Elop, “Nokia strongly believes that access to communication and information is a right, … [Read more...]

Addressing climate change one phone at a time

November 2, 2011 Leave a Comment

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Have you ever wondered how factories would operate if they had environmental responsibility fully integrated into their functioning? Today we take a leaf from the world's greenest cellular telephone company, Nokia, and find out how they address climate change through working greener. Nokia has 10 factories globally. In order to operate responsibly, environmental issues are … [Read more...]

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Decommissioning of coal-fired power plants needed

Concerns surrounding a global climate emergency have brought into sharp focus the need to mobilize increased investment flows towards clean energy. Such flows are needed to fund incremental power g…

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SA Youth Say, “It is Time to Put Mother Earth on A Carbon Diet”

Barely two weeks after the Presidential Climate Commission (PCC) visited KwaZulu-Natal to engage communities on climate change and the just transition, the province was hit with the worst floods we…

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CLEAN ENERGY: While South Africans endure load shedding, government launches 147MW Roggeveld wind farm

Eskom will be the primary purchaser of power generated by the wind farm, which independent power producer Red Rocket says will generate enough energy to ‘satisfy the energy needs of roughly 49,200 households every year’.

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ISSUES AT STAKE: SA's human-wildlife conflict needs urgent attention from authorities | Zululand Observer

The recent migration of 11 elephants from Mozambique to South Africa has highlighted our country’s concerning human-wildlife conflict issues, writes TAMLYN HEAD

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Vodacom promises to up spending on renewable energy

Vodacom South Africa will buy much more of the electricity it needs for its operations from renewable energy sources within the next three years.

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