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World Cup Projects Create ?Treepreneurs? |
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Posted by Siyabonga Maphumulo
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Monday, 23 February 2009 |
More than 62 500 trees will be planted in the north of Durban as part
of the City’s efforts to stage a climate friendly World Cup. The City
has teamed up with the Wildlands Conservation Trust to green the area
near the Buffelsdraai landfill site in Verulam, the City’s biggest
rubbish dump.
The aim of the project is to offset the emissions from the cars, buses
and taxis which are expected to increase in 2010. But a welcome
spin-off is the economic opportunities it will bring to people from the
oSindisweni and Buffelsdraai area.
The Wildlands Conservation Trust has started a “treepreneurship” scheme
to reward people who collect seeds and plant trees with cash, food,
clothes, bursaries and bicycles. The trust gives the volunteers farming
implements such as wheelbarrows and spades.
The Deputy Head of the City’s Environmental Management Department,
Debra Roberts said: “The aim is to keep the event climate neutral in
eThekwini by offsetting emissions generated during the World Cup.”
Roberts, who also leads the City’s 2010 Greening Programme, said the
planting of the trees would create a buffer zone, reducing smells from
the landfill site for neighbouring communities. Although the
municipality owns the 900ha of land formerly used for sugar cane
farming, it will only use 100ha for the landfill, with the remaining
800ha acting as a buffer zone.
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Final Segment Fitted To Durban?s Stadium |
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Posted by Imagine Durban Webmaster
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Tuesday, 13 January 2009 |
Engineers at Durban’s Moses Mabhida Stadium have fitted the final piece
to the 350m long arch that spans eThekwini’s iconic new sports facility.
Today’s fitment concluded one of the most spectacular aspects of the
multi-billion stadium construction. In March last year the first
sections of the free-span arch arrived by ship from Hamburg, Germany.
An engineering feat of epic proportions, the Moses Mabhida stadium with
the completion of the arch will give Durban a landmark similar to
Sydney’s Opera House; New York’s Statue of Liberty and the Christ the
Redeemer statue in Rio de Janeiro
The arch, which consists of 56 separate 10m pieces stands 106m high,
weighs 3500 tons is symbolic of the South African flag – the two legs
on the southern side of the stadium come together to form a single
footing on the northern side, symbolising the unity of a once divided
nation through sport. A high-tech cable car has been designed to take
visitors to the highest point of the arch where they can take in
panoramic views of the city. Standing 30 storeys tall, the arch is the
same height as one of Durban’s tallest buildings - John Ross house
overlooking the harbour.
The last piece fitted this morning weighed 60 tons and the arch pieces
had to be opened by 5cm’s on either side to accommodate this final
section.
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Launch of the online toolkit Greening Grocery |
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Posted by fedwards
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Friday, 28 November 2008 |
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The Food Trust has recently launched their online toolkit Greening Grocery: Strategies for Sustainable Food Retailing,
a valuable resource for grocery store operators and policy makers who
want to harness the financial benefits of sustainable building
practices in order to increase the availability of fresh food in
communities. The toolkit is available at www.greeninggrocery.org.
(Source: www.sustainablecitiesnet.com )
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ST PHILOMENA'S IT CENTRE |
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Posted by Jacqui Osz
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Wednesday, 26 November 2008 |
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ST PHILOMENA'S IT CENTRE is now ISETT SETA accredited (ACC/2008/05/363
End-user Qualification, SAQA ID: 61591). St Phil’s IT Resource Centre
is a Social Purpose Business that offers IT literacy programs to the
less fortunate. Courses can be booked for your learnership programs for
ICDL through your company with your SDF / HR person. Learnerships
through SETA for ICDL are free and your company would just need to
complete the correct documentation to take advantage of this offer.
According to the ISETT SETA website: www.isett.org.za/incASP/frame.asp?theSection=/etqa/default.asp&thePage=accredited
St Phil’s IT Resource Centre is only one of two active accredited
providers that are non-profit organisations in the Durban (031) area.
There are two academic and eight companies offering the same accredited
course. When booking, whether with or without learnerships, the profits
of using St Phil’s facilities are used to train youth in the community.
The ICDL Course includes: Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Access &
Internet/Email. St Phil’s is also able to offer courses as single
units, to offer the course at a low fee, subsidised by community
initiatives to individuals, to offer other MS courses and issue MS
certificates, and to test ICDL since it is an approved testing centre.
Contact Jacqui Osz 031 208 4187 / pro@stphils.org.za
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Call for Proposals |
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Posted by Imagine Durban Webmaster
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Monday, 24 November 2008 |
“The Integration of Sustainable Agriculture and Rural Development
in the Context of Climate Change, the Energy Crisis and Food Insecurity”
What:
This Conference is aimed at independent research organizations,
universities, government agencies, policy-makers, public policy
advocates, nongovernmental organizations (NGO) and corporate
representatives from developing and developed countries. All of these
stakeholders are interested in looking critically at the ways in which
research is - and can be - used to create change worldwide. This
Scientific Meeting will endeavor not only to share research results,
but also to identify future research prospects, challenges, issues and
concerns. Moreover, the organizers of this Meeting would like to
generate innovative thinking in agricultural and rural development and
to identify elements of a longer term research agenda to fill critical
gaps in knowledge on these issues - through rigorous, defensible data
collection, analysis interpretation and communication. They also would
like to develop research projects and networks in these fields
involving researchers from both developed and developing countries:
believing that partnerships among researchers are critical components
of any meaningful effort to develop synergistic research and change
agendas.
When: November 12-14, 2009
Where: Agadir (Morocco)
For more information: http://2009-international-conference.synthasite.com
Deadline for abstracts is January 15, 2009.
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