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Indalo Yethu joins Mthatha and Butterworth Clean up Campaigns |
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 01 December 2008: A massive public garbage cleanup campaign was held at King Sabatha Dalindyebo (Mthatha) and Mquma (Butterworth) Municipalities where the Deputy Minister of Department of Environmental Affairs and Tourism, Ms Rejoice Mabudafhasi, accompanied by Indalo Yethu and Buyisa eBag joined municipal officials, school kids, educators, taxi associations and the community in removing bags of rubbish from the streets of Ngangelizwe Township in Mthatha and Butterworth Inner City on the 24th and 25th of November 2008 respectively. |
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3rd Women and Environment Conference |
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Energy Efficiency Project |
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South Africa is facing an electricity emergency with a detrimental impact on the South African economy and the population as a whole. This emergency cannot be solved by government alone, but will have to be a collective effort by all South Africans. Governments emergency response identifies (among other interventions) those aspects that relate to the demand side, including energy efficiency, as providing significant short and long terms benefits. Energy efficiency has to become a way of life, not only for energy sake but for longer term sustainable development. Government has undertaken to restore a workable reserve margin in order to alleviate strain on the generation assets and the primary energy supply chain. |
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 The purpose of this project is to conduct a Green audit of 10 schools within the boundaries of the Ekurhuleni Metropolitan Municipality and provide recommendations for improvements. The main purpose of the Green Audit is to help the project partners; Ekurhuleni Municipality, Kulula.com and Indalo Yethu understand what is required to improve the environmental performance of the selected public schools and contribute to sustainable development by providing assistance in implementing the audit recommendations, where possible. In order to achieve this, the partners are looking for a consultant who can help with the Green Audit. In conducting the audit, the consultant must investigate the current status and improvement potential in the following key aspects of greening;
• Water
• Energy
• Biodiversity
• Waste Management Project Green is a Kulula.com initiative aimed at offsetting the carbon emission from air travel through community based green projects. The Ekurhuleni Municipality and Indalo Yethu have joined Kulula.com on this initiative and make it a public private partnership responding to the World Summit on Sustainable Development, and the Johannesburg Plan of Implementation. |
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The South African Economy is growing and results in secure and new job opportunities, thereby addressing some of our socio-economic challenges. There is a growing need to ensure that the current growth, production and consumptions patterns takes into account environmental issues in line with sustainable development. For sustainable development to occur, our goods and services must become progressively less harmful to the environment. This can be achieved if a company’s profits become more dependent on its environmental performance. Indalo Yethu intends to make the environmental endorsement and caring for the environment a basic competitive force and therefore, a corporate priority. The environmental endorsement system has been designed as a tool to promote environmental responsibility within different sectors of our industry in South Africa. It is a voluntary program that provides consumers with environmental information. |
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