Green Acre Living has identified 700 low income households and works to enable these homes to achieve sustainable food security. Methods taught through training sessions, weekly workshops and a mentoring process are based on agroecology principles. Urban food security is an ongoing challenge against the backdrop of high unemployment rates of 25%, a faltering economy, ongoing … [Read more...]
Climate change is already forcing U.S. communities to abandon their homes
Projections of climate-fuelled sea level rise show terrifying scenarios with major economic centers like New York and Miami losing much of their land to rising seas. But for some communities in the United States, losing land to climate change isn’t a future nightmare — it’s a present and daily struggle. According to new analysis from the Center for Progressive Reform, at … [Read more...]
WESSA graduates say “YES” to greener futures
Over 100 enthusiastic young participants on the Department of Environmental Affairs’ Youth Environmental Services (YES) Programme are equipped to pursue careers in the green economy after having received their graduation certificates at a ceremony held in Caledon today. This group is the latest intake of youths from disadvantaged backgrounds that have completed the year-long … [Read more...]
Collect bread tags to purchase a wheelchair for the needy
Each year, South Africa celebrates National Disability Rights Awareness month between 3 November and 3 December. As part of this year’s campaign, the Polystyrene Packaging Council (PSPC) is encouraging people to collect their breadtags, which can be used to “purchase” a wheelchair for people with mobility impairments who are financially unable to afford one. Currently in … [Read more...]
What is the state of environmental governance transparency?
Around 50% of the records requested from the Department of Environmental Affairs during 2015 were supplied to the Centre for Environmental Rights. The rest did not exist or were not under control of the Department. The Department of Mineral Resources released only 12.5% of requested records. The Centre for Environmental Rights (CER) has released its fifth report on access to … [Read more...]
Climate fund endorses renewable energy plans in East Africa
The Climate Investment Fund for Scaling up Renewable Energy for Low Income Countries (SREP) is devoting funding of $50 million (USD) to helpd develop financially sustainable long-term markets for the private sector provision of off-grid electricity services in East African countries, Rwanda and Uganda. Energy remains one of the biggest struggles in East Africa, though more … [Read more...]
Aid donors’ investment deal causing hardship for Tanzanian farmers
Millions of pounds of UK aid money have been invested in a project in Tanzania which is destroying the livelihoods of smallholder farmers, driving them into debt and impacting the local environment. This according to a new report by The Oakland Institute released in collaboration with Greenpeace Africa and Global Justice Now. The company Agrica has received millions in … [Read more...]
Join the Earth Imagineers and reclaim your future
The Earth Imagineers Tour covers the birth of a radical new consciousness and explores how the human body is the most potent tool to change the world. It covers new understandings of what the sun is, how the human heart is a frequency generator that can affect all life and how we interact with light to be this change. Dan Schrieber of Starseed Gardens Austrailia, acclaimed … [Read more...]
African women gather to say ‘no’ to coal
Women, grassroots activists and leaders recently gathered in Johannesburg for a Southern African exchange on "Women stand their ground against Big Coal". Coal kills people, Coal destroys health and community well-being, Coal devastates land, water and ecosystems and Coal is destroying our planet. These are the conclusions of more than fifty women, grassroots activists and … [Read more...]
Every 2.2 seconds another child is orphaned
World Orphan Week (otherwise known as WOW) 2011 is earmarked for the second week in February. Raising awareness for the sixth consecutive year is the world's largest children's charity, SOS Children' Villages. Since the inception of WOW in 2005 (in the United Kingdom) SOS International has played an integral role in raising awareness around the needs of orphaned and … [Read more...]
