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...]
Global student competition seeks solutions for energy efficient cities
Go Green in the City is one of the biggest global student competitions for engineering and business students worldwide. Schneider Electric SA has launched its ninth annual global student contest for two-member teams to find bold ideas and innovative solutions for smarter, more energy-efficient and sustainable cities. Engineering and business students across the country … [Read more...]
Join the Global Climate March chorus
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...]
Southern African leaders meet as region faces food crisis
The leaders of 15 southern African countries gathered last week for an annual summit as the region grapples with serious food shortages that have left a record number of people needing aid. A toxic mix of erratic rains, abnormally high temperatures and floods have wreaked havoc on farming, writing off the bulk of this year’s crop. An estimated 27.4-million people out of … [Read more...]
Archbishop Tutu wants renewable energy target of 100% by 2050
Climate change is one of the greatest moral challenges of our time. It threatens the health of our planet and people; especially the poorest and most vulnerable. It threatens our children’s future and everything we hold dear. It is time for all of us to wake up and take action together — in our local communities, nationally and globally, as well as in our daily lives. Moral … [Read more...]
Take action on climate change
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
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
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
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
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
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
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...]
