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Steve Kretzmann
Summer 2007

Affordable housing on the horizon

BRIGHT SPARK 4 Middle income earners have fallen through the cracks in the property market as house prices rocket, but there is light at the end of the tunnel thanks to Soula Proxenos’ ability to lobby on South Africa’s behalf.

Fallow fields

Ensuring shelves are stocked with ‘green’ produce is not enough for supermarkets, who are reaping increasing profi ts from impoverished rural areas while withholding the key that could help unlock greater economic sustainability.

Summer 2007
Steve Kretzmann

Economics ate the ecosystem

The tension between economic development and the environment has been there since the industrial revolution.

Summer 2008
Steve Kretzmann

Antarctica gets airwaves

A collaboration between the arts and sciences in the Antarctic is laying the groundwork for the first polar community radio station and providing a boost to researchers by creating a mobile renewable energy unit which doubles as a bivouac.

Summer 2008
Steve Kretzmann

Green bricks

One of the major obstacles facing home builders who wish to build with environmentally friendly material has been the lack of financing options.

Summer 2008
Steve Kretzmann

Extracting entrepreneurship

The wealth of informal business activity trading on South Africa’s streets is overlooked by researchers who have no means of measuring it, with the result that we may have more entrepreneurial spirit than we give ourselves credit for.

Winter 2007
Steve Kretzmann

Sun offers a ray of hope

The IT industry emits vast amounts of CO2, but unlike many other industries is able to make substantial improvements.

Autumn 2008
Steve Kretzmann

ISO tackles a standard for sustainability

ISO has embarked on its most ambitious and multilateral project ever – to develop a sustainability standard for business – and Mind Shift’s associate editor is chairing the international process.

Autumn 2008
Steve Kretzmann

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.

Spring 2008
Steve Kretzmann

Transnet taken to task

Transnet may have to alter expansion plans for the Saldanha Bay iron ore handling facility following strong objections from SANParks, local municipalities and residents.

Spring 2008
Steve Kretzmann

Victory for the environment

The population of Ecuador voted in a new constitution on Sunday September 29 that, among other reforms, is to provide nature with legal rights similar to those enjoyed by humans.

Spring 2008
Steve Kretzmann