New partnership launched to ‘Unsmoke’ Cape Town
Philip Morris South Africa (PMSA), together with the Central City Improvement District (CCID) and City of Cape Town, aims to tackle the cigarette butt litter...
Category : Greening And Environment
FAO director-general calls on food industry to do more to support healthy foods
Qu Dongyu, director-general of the UN Food and Agriculture Organization, has called for the food industry to do more to support healthy foods, and to...
International Day of Rural Women focuses on climate resilience
The theme for this year’s International Day of Rural Women is “Rural women and girls building climate resilience”. UN Women, along with other UN and...
DStv partnership in Mozambique brings solar power to rural areas
Fenix Mozambique inaugurates Nampula branch in collaboration with FUNAE and DStv. Fenix has rapidly grown operations as a subsidiary of ENGIE, enabling the company to...
1200 students fight for environment in Belgium
1,200 students in between the ages of 8 and 14 recently undertook the biggest pollution clean up ever seen in the historic Belgian coastal city...
19-year-old develops eco-friendly edible straws that don’t turn soft
South African Leila Siljeur won R50 000 from Allan Gray Orbis Foundation National Jamboree for her unique edible and environmentally friendly straws registered as Eat Me...
Garden rooting out homelessness.
Streetscapes is a Cape Town- based gardening project seeks to uplift the homeless. The garden is managed by the homeless, and it grows produce that...
South African surfer makes rubbish chic
Mike Schlebach is a South African surfer who seeks to clean the waters he surfs in. He has partnered with Jasper Eales, a designer, Schlebach...
Miss Earth SA 2019 crowns a new winner
Miss Earth South Africa 2019 has crowned a new winner, Lungo Katete is the lucky contestant who was announced as this year’s ambassador at the...
UN honors social media initiative for planting 122Mil trees in China
The United Nations Environment Program (UNEP) has honoured a Chinese social media initiative for turning the green good deeds of half a billion people into real...