The National Energy Regulator of SA (Nersa) has granted Eskom a licence for its Sere wind farm in the Western Cape, the power parastatal said on Monday.

 

Two of South Africa’s inspirational social change adventurers have taken their last steps in the 3000km, seven month CAN DO! Trekking for Trash trek.

Among the group of G-20 nations, South Africa was the fastest-growing market, with investment rising from less than $30 million in 2011 to $5.5 billion in 2012, a 20,500% increase.

"Imagine migrating birds, one year, arriving and finding an industrial area instead of this wetland?” This question was posed at the opening of the first permanent bird ringing centre in the country at the Grootvaly Blesbokspruit Wetland Reserve in Springs recently.

Unitrans Volkswagen is proud to announce that their donation to the Unite against Poaching fund stands at R6 Million.

Global Payment Technologies (GPT) is planting 1,111 trees in celebration of World Water Day, in this international year of water cooperation.

Aurecon employees across the globe are involved in projects that are making a daily difference to the communities in which they work.

8-year-old, Afeefah Patel from Evans Park, Johannesburg, has won the SANParks Kudu Award for wildlife conservation for writing a letter to President Jacob Zuma asking for his assistance in saving endangered rhinos.

The school year is starting in style for hundreds of grade R pupils whose anxious parents, who are unable to equip them with appropriate kit, watched happily as the new learners received funky pencil cases, chair bags and school backpacks recycled from old vinyl advertising billboards.

Following the successful implementation of a pilot project which uses PVC pipe as bins for discarded fishing line along the Overberg Gansbaai shoreline, beaches on the Western, Northern and Eastern Cape Coast will soon have their very own bins where fishermen can throw away their broken or used lines.

On Monday, 01 October 2012 Pikitup rolled out phase two of its Separation at Source Project to the Zondi serviced depot areas in Soweto. The project not only encourages residents to recycle their household refuse, which is ordinarily tossed away, but it also promotes job creation through the exchange of money for recyclable waste.

When we think of childhood, we think of children running, playing and laughing without a care. But this is not what Mpolokeng Kambule, a social worker and project manager who has been placed at Pretoria based non-profit organisation, New Beginningz, through the Vodacom Change the World initiative, saw when she arrived at the Itireleng settlement. Instead, she saw the children’s play areas brimming with rubbish, forcing them on to the streets, which were flowing with dirty water due to no drainage system. This prompted her to initiate a clean-up campaign. "Children should be able to grow up in a clean and safe environment," says Kambule.

As part of their annual staff function, aptly named Deep Green Day, Nedbank’s Gauteng employees mounted a world record-breaking initiative to build the largest pyramid can structure.

On Saturday 15 September, the UCT Underwater Club organised a collaborative cleaning effort – diving to collect litter from the beneath the ocean surface in Simonstown, as part of their CleanDIVER initiative and in celebration of International Coastal Cleanup Day (ICC). All proceeds from the event are being kindly donated to the Save Our Seas Shark Centre in Kalk Bay, to further local marine conservation efforts.

Nampak Bevcan, Nampak DivFood and Collect-a-Can’s title sponsorship initiative ‘CAN DO! Trekking for Trash’ will start at the beginning of October 2012. Social change adventurers Michael Baretta and Camilla Howard are counting down the days to the start of their 3000km expedition and are currently in full training.

So far, the 'Skydive for Rhinos' campaign has raised more than R5.5m for African Conservation Trust's Rhino Fund.

A national campaign to raise funds for South Africa’s rhinos by asking ‘ordinary South Africans to do something extraordinary’ raised R300,000 last weekend in Rustenburg, as 64 people took part in the launch of Skydive for Rhinos 2012.

Hundreds of youngsters and celebrities with a conscience spent yesterday expressing their affection for elephants at the ‘E-is-for-Elephants’ "paintertainment" art jam at Cavendish Square in Cape Town.

Construction on a wind farm to supply power to the Nelson Mandela Bay municipality is due to start near Port Elizabeth, MetroWind said on Thursday.

With the ongoing implementation of the environmental strategy of Transnet National Ports Authority (TNPA), the Port of Richards Bay is taking the lead as the first port in South Africa with the largest floating breakwater system (pontoons) constructed within its harbour.

A plan to capture and store carbon dioxide, a major greenhouse gas, in deep geologic formations was approved by Cabinet on Friday.

Estimates from the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) predict total paper consumption is set to rise from the current 400 million tonnes to between 450-million and 500-million tonnes by 2020. As a result, South African businesses are being urged to realise the vast environmental and business benefits of recycling unwanted paper.

The City of Cape Town has launched a year-long pilot project to improve the quality of storm water running into the sea at three of its popular bathing areas.

The sun is working hard at Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University (NMMU) where a new cost-saving bicycle and scooter pilot project is about to be launched. "Freewheeling" will see an initial ten staff members use solar battery-powered bicycles and scooters to get around North and South campuses, while their vehicles remain under a new covered parking facility hosting solar panels.

Saturday 28th January saw dozens of members of the Ferndale and Randburg community flanking workers from employment NGO Fundi, taking up their gardening tools in a joint effort to improve their area.