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Educational video series presents climate solutions

March 18, 2021 Leave a Comment

Climate Solutions 101 is a free video series filled with the latest need-to-know science and fascinating insights from global leaders in climate policy, research, investment and beyond. Rather than rehashing well-known climate challenges, Project Drawdown highlights game-changing climate action based on its own rigorous scientific review and assessment. This course, … [Read more...]

Join the Global Climate March chorus

October 15, 2015 Leave a Comment

The weekend before the biggest UN climate conference of the decade in Paris, the world will stand together in a weekend of global action at the People's Climate March. This is to send a powerful message to governments meeting in Paris: keep fossil fuels in the ground and finance a just transition to 100% renewable energy by 2050. Last year, the People's Climate March saw … [Read more...]

Take action on climate change

May 30, 2015 Leave a Comment

What are the things you love? Friends, family and pets go without saying – but what about the other things that bring us joy, things we often take for granted? Do you love a fresh cup of coffee in the morning? An indulgent square of chocolate now and then? As Martin Luther King jnr famously said: “Before you finish breakfast in the morning, you’ve depended on half the … [Read more...]

Global campaign calls for strong emissions reductions

May 3, 2015 Leave a Comment

The Climate Reality Project announced its Road to Paris effort last week. This is a major international campaign that will bring together citizens, business leaders, non-profit organizations, and NGOs to galvanize climate action. It will also encourage countries at December's United Nations' Framework Convention on Climate Change's 21st Conference of the Parties in Paris to … [Read more...]

Africa’s Climate Reality about to hit Johannesburg

March 4, 2014 Leave a Comment

South African-based youth environmental organisation, Generation Earth, has joined forces with former-US President, Al Gore’s Climate Reality Project to bring climate change education to African shores. The Climate Reality Leadership Corps Africa Training, which will take place in Johannesburg from 12-14 March, follows on the heel of similar trainings across the globe. The … [Read more...]

Rise of the CCC polluticians

January 29, 2014 Leave a Comment

At the dawn of the 21st century’s second decade, 25 832 globe-trotters invade Dodgy City. Staying fourteen days, for the West-Gondwanaland Climate Change Conference. ‘Developing country awarded the CCC,’ the Global Thymes announced, two years before. The famous D.C. International Airport runway points straight at the Fantastic Ocean. Planes take off and land over the sea. … [Read more...]

Environmental leadership course takes flight

July 2, 2013 Leave a Comment

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The Stepping Up to Environmental Leadership course funded by the DG Murray Trust was hosted by the Wildlife and Environment Society of South Africa (WESSA) and took place between June and July 2013. As one of the participants I wanted to  share our transformative and influential experience. The group was selected based on personal submissions in response to questions of … [Read more...]

African new head of Greenpeace

November 6, 2011 Leave a Comment

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Proudly African human rights activist, Kumi Naidoo, has taken over as the Greenpeace International Executive Director. Dr Kumi Naidoo is well known for his extensive human rights activism as well as his work in civil society. Naidoo became involved in South Africa's liberation struggle at the age of 15. He played a leadership role in a national student protest against the … [Read more...]

Leaders of tomorrow to nurture earth

November 6, 2011 Leave a Comment

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In a first for Nelson Mandela Bay, environmental education has been included in the curriculum of the Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University (NMMU) Business School through a partnership with the Wilderness Foundation of Southern Africa. A memorandum of understanding (MOU), signed by the Business School's Director Professor Piet Naude and the Wilderness Foundation executive … [Read more...]

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Empowering women to safeguard the environment

The first step towards tackling the challenges of climate change is empowering women to safeguard the environment. Women bear the brunt of climate change, but they are the world’s best bet in the f…

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Capacity building for sustaining peace in Africa

Cristina Duarte, the UN Secretary-General’s Special Adviser on Africa, briefed ambassadors during a debate to examine capacity building for sustaining peace on the continent, and to explore the way…

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Let’s #WearItWild to help protect our wildlife

Unleash your wild side during WWF South Africa’s #Wear It Wild fun campaign and take on the special persona of your favourite animal, be it the long-legged giraffe, the hefty elephant or the stealt…

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Ultimate Safaris roars into action to support World Lion Day 2022

To mark World Lion Day on August 10th, Ultimate Safaris is investing in a new state-of-the-art research and monitoring vehicle to keep track of the unique desert lion population of northern Namibia. Dedicated to the protection of the wilderness areas of Namibia where it operates, the award-winning U...

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