The Southern African Faith Communities’ Environment Institute’s annual conference begins in Johannesburg tomorrow (Monday, March 31). If you are interested, you can find the details here: SAFCEI: SAFCEI AGM and Public Meeting - Johannesburg.
I was rather hoping to attend, but when a service for my car cost R4000 more than I expected, my disposable income [...]
Fifteen years after the end of apartheid, South Africa’s urban residential areas remain almost as segregated as before. Now the eThekwini Municipality plans to change that — by allocating housing on racial lines.
clipped from www.thetimes.co.za
Urban has launched the country’s first colour quota housing project, which aims to eradicate decades of apartheid [...]
I recently started a blog on behalf of the Southern African Faith Communities’ Environment Institute (SAFCEI). The blog is simply called SAFCEI, and will contain news on environmental issues that may be of interest to Southern African faith communities, or news of environmental action by Southern African faith communities.
All pretty straighforward, so all [...]
Cosatu has drawn attention to one aspect of the electricity supply crisis that hasn’t received much coverage in the media. Cosatu does not blame Eskom management, but the government’s mania for privatisation. And if that is true, then the heads have already rolled — at the ANC conference in December.And then it is just [...]
Forwarded from Greenpeace:
Europe’s top environment politician, EU-Commissioner Stavros Dimas, enraged agro-chemical companies last week when he refused to allow the cultivation of two varieties of genetically modified maize (Bt 11 and 1507).
He said GM crops should not [...]
The crime rate has dropped in countries where leaded petrol has been banned, according to a recent report.
clipped from environment.independent.co.uk
Banning lead in petrol is responsible for declining crime rates in Britain, the United States and other countries, startling new research suggests.
Published in the peer-reviewed journal, Environmental Research, the study reports a “very strong association” [...]
“The speed at which mankind has used the Earth’s resources over the past 20 years has put “humanity’s very survival” at risk, a study involving 1,400 scientists has concluded.”, according to an article cited by Fr David Macgregor.
Should we care? Should we be concerned about this?
More than a century ago a town meeting in Durban [...]
One of the spin-offs from the recent synchroblog on Christianity and Neopaganism (see Notes from underground: Christianity, paganism and literature (synchroblog)), was some comments about ways in which the natural environment is seen.
There was an interesting variety of comments on some of the posts. For some, concern for the natural environment is one of the [...]
I’ve come across two posts recently on non-violent direct action. The first is about those protesting against the erection of the Israel/Palestine apartheid wall.
I was recently rereading my diaries for 1989, that annus mirabilis when pro-democracy demonstratons were breaking out all over, and dictators fell in Romania and Paraguay and several other places, including, [...]
The following press release from Earthlife Africa speaks for itself. See also the za.environment newsgroup.
On Wednesday the 9th of May 2007, social and environmental justice activists will demonstrate in Port Elizabeth, Johannesburg and Richards Bay against Alcan and its secret deal with Eskom. In Johannesburg, Earthlife Africa Jhb (ELA Jhb) will coordinate a protest outside [...]
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