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Big Tobacco, clean up your mess!

June 2, 2022 Leave a Comment

Protect our Next advocacy organisations have launched a campaign calling for Big Tobacco to clean up its mess called ‘Susa Udoti Wakho - #yourbuttsstink.’ The 2022 World Health Organisation (WHO) theme - “Tobacco: Threat to our environment” - focuses on the damaging impact tobacco has on the planet throughout its lifecycle, including deforestation, erosion, water pollution … [Read more...]

Seven things you need to know about e-cigarettes

January 29, 2020 2 Comments

Office e-smokers, you’re still being uncool to your co-workers. The World Health Organisation breaks down what we know and what we don’t about vapes. The World Health Organisation (WHO) recently released a list of seven commonly asked questions about e-cigarettes, like whether or not they’re safer than traditional cigarettes and what they mean for your lungs and those around … [Read more...]

Greenwashing: how do we use this concept for good?

June 20, 2013 Leave a Comment

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The concept of greenwashing is one that I have long refrained from discussing, preferring rather to encourage the developing green market and not to fuel fires of mistrust. Not because it’s not important, on the contrary. South Africans need to understand what constitutes a responsible consumer and how they can contribute towards a better world. But it is also a term that may … [Read more...]

Tobacco take out more good folk

October 13, 2011 Leave a Comment

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During the last month one colleague health practitioner was diagnosed with lung cancer, causing an inoperable cancerous mass, which spread to the lymph nodes. He was already so ill that nothing further could be done and he died soon afterwards. He was only 65 years old, has had a chronic cough for as long as I can remember and then suddenly began to deteriorate after an acute … [Read more...]

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Eco seals deal to increase stake in block off South Africa

Eco (Atlantic) Oil & Gas has inked a deal to acquire additional interest in a block located offshore South Africa.

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Campaign aims to save SA sharks and rays

Last week welcomed significant news and positive movement for marine conservation in South Africa – a country that sits in the top five as a global hotspot for shark and ray diversity – as th…

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EU Deforestation law leaves much to be desired

Ministers in the Environment Council voted today to weaken the EU Deforestation law, despite citizens, scientists and companies asking for nature destruction-free products on the EU market. “The Co…

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No justification for new coal-fired power

Applicants in South Africa’s first youth-led climate change case have learned that the Minister of Mineral Resources & Energy will oppose their application to compel the release of documents ab…

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Real changes needed to end the fossil fuel economy

57 laureates of the Right Livelihood award (often considered the “Alternative Nobel Prize”) have sent a message to UN Stockholm+50 international environmental meeting urging “acknowledgement of eco…

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