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MfM's Red Goes Green Campaign
Local radio station, MfM, under the direction of Community Coordinator Ruenda Odendaal ran a month long awareness and action campaign on waste in the Greater Stellenbosch.
Science & Society Updates
The Science & Society initiative of the Reinventing Stellenbosch partnership (and wider Sustainable Stellenbosch programme) aims to mobilise civil society in partnership with the University, Municipality and business sectors around key sustainability challenges for the Greater Stellenbosch Community. The main themes of this initiative include Energy, Water, Waste, Food Security, Biodiversity and Wellbeing. The initiative includes stakeholder engagement, events and campaigns to promote knowledge sharing and collaboration in the wider Stellenbosch.
Healing & Dreaming, Together
A Message from the Social Cohesion Forum for the Greater Stellenbosch, a community initiative emerging from the Mayor / Rector Forum in 2009.
On Health & Pesticides A Message from the Tatib Foundation
We are a group of residents, parents, students, professors, medical practitioners who are concerned about the damage, to human & environmental health, that is caused by exposure to pesticides.
SRC Environmental Affairs Committee making great strides on campus
A review of some of the great projects underway with the SRC Environmental Affairs committee at the University of Stellenbosch.
Outcomes of 20 Year Research Workshop
Constructive Dialogue, Promising Outcomes: Summary report of the three day workshop to discuss the University's 20 year research agenda.
Lydia Ladies Residence and its drive towards sustainable living
So what are you willing to do to Reduce, Re-use and Recycle in your own back-yard?
This is the question Lydia Willems and Georgina Smit ask us in their article entitled, ‘Greening the Way in Residential Life on a University Campus’, presented at the Institute for Environment and Recreation Management in October 2008. And what a relevant question it is! They describe efforts undertaken by Lydia Ladies Residence, a medium-sized Stellenbosch University residence, in bringing about holistic, context-specific solutions for sustainable living within the four walls of a university residence.
Stellenbosch part of 350 Climate Change March
Stellenbosch Students were mobilized for a demonstration against climate change. Students and community members alike joined together in this iniative around the globe to tell our leaders that Climate Change is a real issue that people care about.
The Eikestad Urban Renewal Initiative
Eikestad Mall is under construction. An investigation into the development reveals some interesting approaches that have been adopted by the developors to promote environmental and social sustainability.
The Farm to Fork Initiative
The Farm to Fork Initiative is part of a growing movement in Stellenbosch to support local, organic and in season produce grown by local small farmers. The Sustainability Institute's initiative sources vegetables and other produce as far as possible from within their own foodshed, supporting local farmers and providing nutritious meals at the same time.