As Africa played host to the world for COP17 in Durban at the end of 2011, the message that our actions and our impact on the planet have reached unsustainable proportions couldn’t be more important. Food & Trees for Africa (FTFA) continues to realise 21 years of sustainable development through greening, climate change action, [...]
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Half a million green jobs in the wings
The Green Jobs Report, issued today, gives the estimated direct employment potential of an unfolding greening South African economy: on average approximately 98 000 new direct jobs will be generated in the short term; almost 250 000 in the medium term and more than 462 000 jobs in the long term. The Green Jobs Report [...]
Repurpose | Architect Africa film screenings at COP17
eThekwini Municipality and the Architects’ Collective will host a series of film screenings from 1-9 December alongside the Repurpose: Architecture in Public Spaces exhibition. The screenings are part of the events surrounding the United Nations seventeenth Conference of Parties, which runs from 28 November to the 9 December 2011 in Durban, South Africa. Ten [...]
South African Informal City Exhibition opens this Friday
The South African Informal City Exhibition is one of the Technical Site Visits offered by the Local Government Programme for COP17, during the United Nations seventeenth Conference of Parties, which runs from 28 November to the 9 December 2011 in Durban, South Africa. The Exhibition itself will be held from 11 November to 11 December [...]
Hosts of COP17 delegates attend workshop on energy efficiency and greening
After a busy year, Lorraine Jenks, queen of ‘green’ and founder of the online hospitality directories Hotelstuff/Greenstuff, has again successfully initiated a new industry event, this time in collaboration with Eskom, delivering a workshop on greening and energy efficiency for hoteliers in and around Durban who will be hosting the COP17 Climate Change Convention [...]
Energy in the Built environment
South Africa will be hosting the seventeenth Conference Of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP 17) and the 7th Meeting of the Parties to the Kyoto Protocol (CMP 7) in Durban this December. The Sustainable Energy Seminar will act as a build up event for Cop17 and CMP 7. [...]
Counting down to COP17 Durban 2011
Come November 2011, Durban / eThekwini will become the centre of the world’s attention and the transient ‘home’ to an estimated 15 000 delegates, representing 190 nations, as the City plays host to COP17, the largest gathering of participants globally around the issue of climate change and the largest conference ever to be held on the [...]
Latest Issue - May/June 2012
In This Issue:
- The Alexander Forbes head office campus by Paragon Architects
- The New Jerusalem Children’s Home by 4D+A Architects
- The Quarterdeck by CHT Architects
- The 2012 Corobrik Architectural Student of the Year Awards
- Paragon Architects profile
