10/10/10 was the day and Alexandra was the place to be. The Sustainable Energy Society for Southern Africa (SESSA) Solar Water Heating (SWH) in conjunction with the Intisolar Consortium and Bidvest donated not one, but five solar water heaters to the Sithandiwe Home for the disabled.
What captures energy like leaves, has fins like a whale, skin like a lizard, eyes like a moth, and interconnected networks like mycellium? 'The future of engineering, design, economics, agriculture, and much more.
On October 10, 2010, millions of people across the globe got together to work towards solving climate crisis as part of the global 'Work Party'. There were more than 7000 events taking place in 183 countries.
On the noteworthy date of 10/10/10, while activists across the globe were uniting for 350.org's Global Work Party, a Hartbeespoort community led by Henning and Thea Holm of Omnibus Engineering gave a push to local grassroots activism and environmental education by donating ten water tanks to local schools to promote rainwater harvesting.
South Africa is in the midst of a terrestrial war over rhino horn poaching, a war that has spiked in recent years to frightening heights.
The end of seafood by 2048! The ocean without fish. Imagine the global consequences. The award winning film THE END OF THE LINE by Rupert Murray had me sitting at the edge of my seat ' and swallowing back the tears.
Phindile Mangwana, a UWC Environmental and Water Sciences graduate on a two-year Table Mountain Fund (TMF) internship programme at WESSA Western Cape, has won a prize for his Khayelitsha Environmental Education Programme (KEEP) and has been selected to join the 2010 Bayer Young Environmental Envoy Programme.
The South African Plastics Recycling Organisation (SAPRO) and the Plastics Industry's Enviromark have announced the winners of their '100 % Recycled, 100 % Creative' competition at a prize giving event that was held at the Plastics Federation's offices in Midrand earlier today.
South Africa's democracy is at risk! An unconstitutional Secrecy Bill is in Parliament and a Media Tribunal has been endorsed by the ANC, which would muzzle the media, and threaten democratic freedoms.
The potential entry of Walmart into the South African retail space has raised a number of concerns about how this may impact on local food producers and the potential compromises that may be forced upon the local food supply chain.
This book was the first down to earth basic book about saving energy in the household using layman's terms that I have found. A must buy to have handy.
It educates people like me who only know Eskom as a monopoly and all the bad press around it. It informed me of all the other parties involved and that there are plans in place to make Eskom one of many to supply energy and also in different more sustainable ways.
Villiera is just one of the many local wineries to join the green movement. This forward-thinking winery has always sought out sustainable initiatives to lessen its impact on the environment. By ensuring that its green strategies also make good economic sense, it keeps itself affordable both on local shelves and in the export market. Aggressive water management, natural pest controls, biodiversity initiatives and a strong culture of recycling have been the forerunners to its latest project - an estate-wide alternative energy solution, outfitted entirely by homegrown solutions provider, enerGworx, using locally designed and manufactured products.
President Nasheed, a former carpenter, screwed in the remaining bolts to help launch this weekend's Global Work Party, what will be the most widespread day of environmental action in the planet's history. On Sunday October 10th, at 7,000 events in 188 countries, citizens will be getting to work on climate solutions and telling their politicians to do the same.
The most famous seat of power in the world, the White House, is going solar. This announcement precedes the world's most widespread political demonstration ever, calling for leaders to act climate change.
Barack Obama's Secretary of Energy, Steven Chu, today announced that by early 2011 solar panels on the presidential mansion will be generating hot water and electricity. "President Obama has a strong commitment to American leadership in solar technologies and the jobs they will create." he said.
Green carpets is a new concept to me, so I was pleasantly surprized to find a new range being launched for the home. New BerberPoint Eco from Nexus is a green alternative marketed to architects as a first choice in eco carpeting.
Since 1981, World Food Day is celebrated on October 16th of every year to raise awareness of the issues behind poverty and hunger. The facts are still shocking: According to the 2010 Global Hunger Index 925 million of the world's population do not have access to sufficient food and drinking water. Consequently, every day 24.000 people die of hunger. To showcase and explain existing policies that can help solve this tragic global failure, on World Food Day 2010 the Hamburg-based World Future Council Foundation will launch a new 'Agriculture and Food' section on their policy solutions website www.futurepolicy.org.
The Woolworths Trust has joined forces with Absa as co-sponsor of the Siyakhana Food Garden Project in Bezuidenhout Park, Johannesburg. Siyakhana is an innovative urban agricultural project established by the Public Oral Health and Health Promotion Units of Wits University. The R1 million investment in Siyakhana represents a further substantial investment by the retailer in food security programmes in South Africa.
SA's Draft National Policy on Organic Farming was presented by the National Department of Agriculture at Elsenberg, Stellenbosch last week. It is the culmination of work done since 1998.
If you'd like to try out some truly friendly and green goodies, today's your lucky day as we're giving away a couple of great hampers from reputable green suppliers.
Any dis-ease or disorder in the body is caused by internal or external stressors which come from many sources such as toxicity, trauma, pathogens, emotional factors (fear, anxiety, anger), pollution, poor nutrition, heredity factors, poor living conditions, lifestyle issues, lack of sleep, overwork, stress and environmental changes (temperature, altitude, damp, dryness, etc.) The symptoms that we see or feel are the body's efforts to heal itself.
