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Spring 2008
Marketing

Marketing to the rescue

A love-affair with 50s adverts sparks a question: If these ads launched us into our state of consumerist over-dose, can marketing wield its magic to cure us of our addiction? I love 50s adverts, even if I don’t buy in to what they were selling.

Capturing carbon

Whether or not coal can be clean might seem like a debate hardly worth having given it's dirty record.

Capturing
Patrick Burnett

Toasting free access

Freedom Toasters – open source software dispensing machines – are now being used by the University of south Africa (Unisa) to provide course content material to students around the country.

Toasting
Ntsikohlanga Kitsili

Sun-powered schools

Think of schools as miniature renewable power stations, plastered with solar panels generating electricity that could be fed back into the national grid or used by surrounding communities.

Sun
Patrick Burnett

Search engines go green

Search engines are used by millions of people worldwide and handle billions of searches every month.

Search
Yugendree Naiddo

Cabinet reviews climate change policy

South Africa cannot afford to continue along a business as usual path without carbon constraints, says cabinet, which is gearing up to prepare for the second Kyoto Protocol's red-letter day in December next year.

Cabinet
Christelle Wiese

Global climate deal edges closer

The United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCC) has hailed the latest round of climate change talks held in Accra, Ghana in August, as marking another step towards an international climate change deal.

Global
Mindshift

Good Food & Wine, Bad Footprint

In response to concerns from consumers about the carbon footprint of fresh produce, the south African fruit and wine industry has launched a multimillion rand research scheme to establish how the industry’s carbon emissions compare to international competitors.

Good
Patrick Burnett

Child malnutrition warning

Every day five children in south Africa die of malnutrition, and with food sources under threat from climate change, this figure is expected to rise dramatically by 2050.

Child
Yugendree Naidoo

Organics online

A Cape Town-based company has taken organic food online, allowing customers to choose an ethical shopping option from the comfort of their own homes.

Organics
Brenda Nkuna

Lost between the farm and the fork

The obscene amounts of food lost between farm and fork – in food storage, transport, processing, retail and kitchens – has enormous implications for feeding the planet, but also in the fight to reduce CO2 emissions, an international report warns.

Lost
Mindshift

Wine – guilt free

Good wine is one of the upsides of a sophisticated society, and the vast majority of South Africa’s world-class wine is grown in the Western Cape.

Wine
Steve Kretzmann

Wild Coast mining controversy grows

Controversy surrounds the granting of a mining licence to Australian mining company Mineral Commodities Limited to mine a 22 km stretch of coastline along the pristine Wild Coast in South Africa’s Eastern Cape province.

Wild
Mindshift
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