Ecolution Sustainability

10 years, 10 lessons: Ecolution celebrates a decade of sustainability

From director André Harms’ adventurous beginnings in Antarctica; to a small green building firm that led the sustainability of Africa’s greenest hotel, to a dedicated team with a host of green building projects under its wing – Ecolution Consulting celebrated 10 years of living, working, and playing sustainability in April. In light of this, we

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Ecolution puts waste to good use at Bhongulethu foundation school

On 2 March, Ecolution teamed up with Waste-Ed and Bhongulethu foundation school in Masiphumelele to put our collected ecobricks to good use. For anyone that doesn’t know, an ecobrick is a plastic bottle of any size that is packed tightly with clean and dry, non-biological/non-biodegradable waste. Once complete, these bottles can be used as building materials for

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Ecolution committed to becoming Net Zero carbon by 2025.

During COP25, which took place in the first two weeks of December 2019, Ecolution Consulting committed to becoming Net Zero carbon by 2030 alongside other Bcorperations who took on the BCorp Net Zero Challenge. Ecolution has taken the challenge one step further by committing to Net Zero by 2025 –  five years earlier than BCorp’s

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Ecolution Consulting supports the youth demanding climate justice

Our founder and director André Harms had fun putting some of his practical engineering skills to use at the @AfricanClimateAlliance climate justice march on Friday 14 June, assisting the sound team at CityVarsity to get ready for the youth speeches. The youth marched from Parliament to the Grand Parade where a number of different speeches were given

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Beating Plastic Pollution, One Office at a Time

Plastic has made its way into our everyday living because of its durability, affordability and usefulness, but has evolved into a one of the world’s greatest environmental epidemics that cannot be avoided any longer. In our efforts to combat this, we have embarked on a sustainability journey to becoming a zero waste office to try

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Ecolution pioneering B Corp in South Africa

The landscape of business is changing. Rising to the planet’s challenges, businesses are increasingly playing a more active role in helping solve social and environmental problems. Enter the global B Corp certification –  A mechanism for businesses to harness the power of private enterprise to create public benefit. A small (but growing) B Corp movement has begun

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