Category : Greening And Environment

For environmentally-conscious parents, instead of throwing thousands of disposable diapers into the landfill every year, where they will take 500 years to biodegrade, a new...

The Chairperson of the Commission of the African Union, Moussa Faki Mahamat is following with concern recent and ongoing developments between Kenya and Somalia. The...

Two men have succeeded in developing an alternative to animal leather made out of Mexican cactus and it could save millions of animals worldwide. Adrián...

The first Earth Hour was held in Sydney, Australia, in 2007 as a symbolic lights-out initiative.13 years later, millions of people around the world are...

Residents in Thohoyandou and Sibasa are becoming eco-friendly, thanks to a new campaign called Separation at Source which aims to see environmental waste reduced and...

According to new research by Cambridge International, young people in South Africa say climate change is the single biggest issue affecting the world today and...

This innovative new hydro-powered search engine is aiming to reforest the world’s oceans and clean up the planet one internet search at a time. Ekoru...

Three pupils from Parktown High School for Girls have been boycotting classes for seven weeks,  demanding a meeting with Minister of environmental, forestry and fisheries Barbara Creecy.The girls,  whose ages range from 15 to 17 years, were part of the group of young people who had a national  climate change dialogue with Creecy at Aviation Hotel in Kempton Park, Ekurhuleni on the 28th of  February.   They started their mission last month because they were concerned that the government was not  doing enough to promote environmental public awareness, so they decided to sit outside their school  every Friday and miss out on hours of classes to grab the minister’s attention.For instance,“ Natural  disasters in KwaZulu-Natal have caused more than R3-billion worth of damage in the past nine months  alone” said,Premier of KZN.  The Grade 12 pupil said at first when they began their mission, she and her fellow schoolmates had  challenges with the school not understanding them but after a series of meetings the teachers began  to understand and started supporting them.   “We want to be part of the initiation process of the policymaking because this is our future that is  going to be affected. We want to go to parliament. We are not fighting but we want to work with  them. I feel this meeting happened because they wanted us to keep quiet,“ said one of the learners.  Creecy said “Today was about information sharing and I wanted to understand their concerns. I have  explained to them that the government was doing a lot and we have put aside a budget for  community outreach programmes to make sure communities understand and know how they can  respond to climate changes.”  With regards to involving young people in policymaking, Creecy said”Everything or policy we make has  to go out for public comment and everyone is welcome to participate through submissions. The issue  is how you enable young people to make public submissions. But I said to them I want to look into this  further.” ...