Capetonians are familiar with the impacts of climate change due to the drought and the recent Table Mountain fire. In both instances, residents, businesses, organisations and government have worked together to make a difference. In the face of increasing climatic shocks and stresses, this is the kind of collaborative action that we need to become a more resilient … [Read more...]
Help take care of nature’s gifts this Earth Day
Earth Day is a global event each year, and we believe that more than 1 billion people in 192 countries now take part in what is the largest civic-focused day of action in the world. Nature’s gifts to our planet are the millions of species that we know and love, and many more that remain to be discovered. Unfortunately, human beings have irrevocably upset the balance of … [Read more...]
World leaders to sign Paris climate agreement on Earth Day
This year, over one billion people in 192 countries will take action to protect our shared environment. All across the globe, in big cities to small villages and everything in-between, people are organizing, demanding climate action, cleaning up their local communities, meeting with their elected officials, planting trees, and teaching their children to protect our … [Read more...]
Happy Earth Day All!
I fight not for the saving of the planet, for She did not elect me, I fight not to save Humankind, for they chose me not; I fight, in the process of self-induced human global suicide, On behalf of those innocents who suffer in the process... While one child goes hungry, while one sister cannot walk safely, while one person is homeless, while a single animal dies in the … [Read more...]
Earth Day 2014 – Green Cities
Every year on April 22, over a billion people in 190 countries take action for Earth Day. From San Francisco to San Juan, Beijing to Brussels, Moscow to Marrakesh, people plant trees, clean up their communities, contact their elected officials, and more—all on behalf of the environment. It all started in 1970 with the first Earth Day, widely considered to be the birth of the … [Read more...]
To live to love seems the best way forward
Tomorrow, 22 April, we celebrate Earth Day across the globe. Reverberating from the shocks of the latest IPCC report, as well as the NASA scientists’ report we shared recently, I am faced with a moral dilemma. What is now the best course of action? Try to push back the floods of destruction that seem daily more inevitable, or accept that our modern civilisation is not … [Read more...]
Hotel fights aliens to save fynbos and water
On Earth Day one of Cape Town’s greenest hotels gathered together staff, guests and friends to clear alien vegetation in the Silvermine Valley in the Table Mountain National Park during their 45th Adopt-a-Spot initiative. The Vineyard Hotel & Spa in Newlands, Cape Town, were assisted by three Miss Earth SA finalists, Nayha Gautam, Lara Potgieter and Luanne … [Read more...]
Miss Earth SA celebrates Earth Day
Earth Day took place this past Sunday with community action and green beauties taking a stand to save our open spaces as citizens of Mother Earth. What makes this day different to every other day and why should it be celebrated rests in the fact that this is an opportunity annually for people to share their love and appreciation for the environment through events, campaigns and … [Read more...]
The new energy book by sarah ward
This book was the first basic book about saving energy in the household that I have found. It educates people like me who only know Eskom as a monopoly and all the bad press around it. It informed me of all the other parties involved and that there are plans in place to make Eskom one of many to supply energy and also in different more sustainable ways. 'REDs (Regional … [Read more...]
One million trees planted on earth guest day
On Earth Day, Accor Hospitality celebrated Earth Guest day and announced that it had crossed the initial one million trees threshold of its Plant for the Planet project. To date, 1 000 hotels have financed the planting of one million trees worldwide. For the fourth consecutive year employees demonstrated their commitment to protecting the planet with sustainable development … [Read more...]
Equipment donations for conservation work
Amanda Bourne (of the Climate Action Partnership) attended a presentation by IDEA WILD, a US NPO that supports biodiversity conservation efforts by raising funds and donating equipment to conservation researchers and projects. This includes office equipment and software, lab equipment, field equipment, and some costs such as for a field assistant or for fuel or transport … [Read more...]
Finding a future in forests
There is 'hidden' economic value in protecting forests, people and animals that depend on the forests. When they are protected, sustainable economies develop, and climate change is stopped. Conservation International (CI) is an organisation dedicated to helping nations and communities find value in protecting their forests. One of CI's current Africa programmes is in … [Read more...]
Fight all forms of abuse on Earth Day
For the ancient tribes of the world, respect was a fundamental value. They understood that their survival depended on their ability to appreciate life and live in harmony with nature. Sadly, it seems that the more 'advanced' civilisation became, the more it lost the very value needed to sustain its future. Today, due to immense environmental abuse, we battle with climate … [Read more...]
