Tag: carbon footprint
Going Green at Nampo
BMG is changing things at Nampo this year having only an outside working exhibition stand that will highlight the importance of ‘Going Green’ in agriculture.
The Nampo show – which is the...
Stellenbosch Municipality is generating its own power
By Ruth Rehbock
IN October 2020, Minister of Mineral Resources and Energy Gwede Mantashe stated that municipalities across the country could generate their own power. The two rulings permit local governments to...
Locally made EV cargo vans
FAITHFUL to Nature, an online retailer of natural and sustainable products is taking additional steps towards carbon-neutral delivery by introducing two electric cargo vans to their express delivery offering in Cape...
ISO 14001 delivers on ESG
ENVIRONMENTAL, Social and Governance (ESG) has fast become one of the top considerations for companies, as the pressure from regulators, politicians, investors and consumers mounts. Measuring the environmental impact and efforts...
Data suggests oil giants are not looking very hard to find ways to reduce...
A small team of environmentalists from the London School of Economics and the Political Science Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development has published a Policy Forum piece in the journal Science highlighting the...
South Africa’s renewable energy industry to power ahead
South Africa is in the midst of a power crisis. Eskom's ageing infrastructure, reduced reliability and inferior quality of coal, and the significant gap in power generation capacity and demand has...
Stellenbosch University paving the way for becoming a smart sustainable campus
Reducing the University's carbon footprint to zero and ensuring that 50% of all electricity used comes from renewable sources by 2025
Move to a technology-enhanced campus through a process of...