Namibia: Environmental Magazine Launches Tomorrow

Source from:  New Era (Windhoek) 16 September 2008 09/19/2008

Green Bay, a new environmental community magazine, will be launched tomorrow. The First World Business Consultants is behind the free monthly magazine, which will explore and give a voice to the green revolution that will define the sustainability of natural resources in Namibia, Africa and the rest of the world. Brian Gamanya, the publisher of Green Bay, said recently the magazine aims to strengthen, develop and harmonise development and poverty reduction, ensuring the understanding human environmental impact, improve natural resource conservation and management and also impart knowledge to the general public, government officials, non-governmental organisations, scholars, decision-makers and experts on environmental issues. The magazine covers articles based on national, regional and global priorities, environmental best practices, innovative environmental solutions and technologies and coastal biodiversity management projects. Green Bay will also cover sustainable tourism and ecotourism, mining, energy and transportation, environmental impact assessment and management and sustainable farming and food processing, climate change and environmental management, recycling and waste management. The 40-page magazine will be available for free to the public in six African countries, namely Namibia, South Africa, Botswana, Lesotho, Swaziland and Zambia. The magazine is published in collaboration with contributors from the Ministry of Environment and Tourism Namibia, Seacology and United Nations Environmental Programme. First World Business Consultants is a consultancy firm that employs full-time experts who work on international projects. Gamanya is a Chief Consultant at First World Business Consultants and is the brains behind the magazine initiative. He has worked for British American Tobacco where he got his experience doing education, training and projects on food safety, occupational health safety and integrated environmental management between 1992 and 2000. He has also been involved in research with various private consulting groups and universities within this period to now. Gamanya graduated from Birmingham University in 2002 and now focuses primarily on running the consultancy firm and doing environmental community projects. He is a chartered environmentalist and accredited by Environmental Science Committee of Heads of Environmental Sciences Accreditation Scheme. Enditem