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Via The Gremlin The Academy for Environmental Leadership SA (AEL) is an accredited academic institution, which offers matriculants the opportunity to partake in a one year course of environmental and conservation studies. After the successful completion of the course, students receive a NQF level 5 qualification, which enables them to enter a number of jobs […]

Via BBC Capital To prepare for the future, we need to shift from thinking about jobs and careers to thinking about challenges and problems, reports Alina Dizik. When Jean-Philippe Michel, a Toronto-based career coach, works with secondary school students, he doesn’t use the word profession. Neither does he focus on helping his young clients figure

Via Bizcommunity Our vulnerability to dwindling natural resources is hitting home. Look no further than Cape Town. Citizens there are in a race against time to save as much water as possible in the hope that winter rainfall will be more plentiful than last year when poor rains left the region’s dams almost half empty.

Via Bizcommunity Illegal poaching, logging and fishing of sometimes critically endangered species is taking place in nearly half of the world’s most protected natural sites, environmental campaigners WWF warned on Tuesday, 18 April. Natural world heritage sites such as Australia’s Great Barrier Reef, Virunga National Park in the Democratic Republic of Congo and the Galapagos

Via Bizcommunity Environmental Affairs Minister Edna Molewa says the department will study the Constitutional Court order that dismissed the leave to appeal the application to keep a ban on the domestic trade in rhino horn. The Constitutional Court dismissed the Gauteng Division order to set aside the moratorium on the domestic trade in rhino horn.

Via Bizcommunity “It may be doubted whether there are many other animals which have played so important a part in the history of the world, as have these lowly organised creatures.” – Charles Darwin, The Formation of Vegetable Mould through the Action of Worms (1881) Not all wildlife is created equal in our eyes. Take

The Academy for Environmental Leadership SA (AEL) is an accredited academic institution, which offers matriculants the opportunity to partake in a one year course of environmental and conservation studies. After the successful completion of the course, students receive a NQF level 5 qualification, which enables them to enter a number of jobs or to proceed

Via Bizcommunity In a world where vital resources are increasingly scarce, nations cannot afford to flush them down the drain. But that is exactly what we do. After we use water in our homes and businesses, it is washed away, and takes many valuable resources with it. Waste water is rich in carbon and nutrients

Via GroundUp In February, Cape Town’s dams were at 36% of their total capacity, down by nearly 7% from this time last year. If the water level falls below 20% it can no longer be pumped out. The City has implemented increasingly stringent restrictions. Residents have been calling into radio stations, sometimes to offer their

Via Bizcommunity What does a staple food such as bread have to do with global warming? For a start, to make loaves on an industrial scale, you’ll need powerful milling and kneading machines and a huge oven, heated to 230? or more. This uses a lot of energy. The flour, yeast and salt must also