Tuesday, 08 September 2009 05:00     Nampak's Recycling's Blue to Green campaign is set to have 20 strategically located sites north of Johannesburg running by the end of September.These recycling stations will be in office parks and shopping centres, the idea being office workings don't have the means or the time to recycle at home dsue to their long hours so they can bring it to work and someone will sort it and put it in th... Read Full Story

Monday, 07 September 2009 07:00    Next month an environmental impact assessment (EIA) is due to start for a R1.5 billion 70MW wind farm located near Darling in the Western Cape. Langefontein farm, near Darling that was once an apartheid-era military radio station is the chosen site near the existing 5,2-MW Darling wind farm, which was commissioned in May last year. Oelsner Group CEO Hermann Oelsner are pushing the project for... Read Full Story

Sunday, 06 September 2009 08:00    The Hangklip/Kleinmond ratepayers federation have applied for the reviewing and setting aside of the decision to allow the second phase of the Arabella development as it is in an environmentally sensitive area which was never supposed to accommodate such a large residential development. The Arabella golf resort near Hermanus will perpetuate urban sprawl should there be further development arg... Read Full Story

Sunday, 06 September 2009 07:00    The car industry is currently undergoing a green revolution, with a number of exciting new technologies vying to challenge the predominance of petrol and diesel and put an end to the internal combustion engine’s negative effects on the environment. For many years now, private cars have been a favourite target of environmental campaigners, mainly due to the harmful emissions that all internal-... Read Full Story

Saturday, 05 September 2009 06:00    In order to cut greenhouse emissions, fight climate change and save energy, 27 countries in the European Union (EU) are gradually phasing out traditional light bulbs.  As of September 1st, 2009, 100-watt and frosted incandescent light bulbs can no longer be manufactured or imported, although stores can sell their remaining stock.   All incandescent light bulbs will be completely phased out ... Read Full Story

The researchers have published a study in the journal Science, demonstrating two powerful new antibodies which could hold the key to achieving a viable AIDS vaccine. It has been well known for several years that a very small percentage of people are immune to the HIV virus, but it was never discovered quite how. Now, researchers were able to isolate the antibodies that neutralize a high percentage of the virus’s different forms currently in circulation worldwide. Read Full Story

Friday, 04 September 2009 06:00    Well done Woolworths and Pick & Pay! Due to the apauling way 1 day old hatchlings have been reported to have been treated the major chain store Woolworths has cut all ties with Jan Serfontein and his son, Jan. They are one of the country's three biggest chicken farms, Boskop Layer Chickens. Kevin Korb, Pick n Pay food merchandise director said, Pick n Pay immediately wrote to all its eggs sup... Read Full Story

Wednesday, 02 September 2009 06:00    Pumped hydro storage is a simple technology already in wide use. Pump water up a hill when you have available energy, let it fall when you need its power. But Riverbank Power; a new start-up founded by a former wind developer who wants to develop large-scale energy storage, is trying out a new idea. Instead of using hills for the height, it will go the other way. Down into the ground. Thei... Read Full Story

By now, most people have now heard of BPA (or bisphenol-A), the chemical found in polycarbonate plastics. BPA is most often founds in clear, hard plastic water bottles, food containers and baby bottles (when in doubt, BPA is found in number 7 plastics). As of April 2008, BPA has received considerable press attention for health and safety concerns. Canada is the first country to ban the import of baby bottles that contain BPA. Furthermore, in October of last year, the Canadian federal governme... Read Full Story

Tuesday, 01 September 2009 06:00    Four men were caught whilst trying to flee from the Imfolozi Game Reserve with two rhino horns. One of the men, thought to be an SANDF soldier, allegedly shot what was the nineteenth rhino to be killed by rhino horn poachers in Kwa-Zulu Natal. This has been a major breakthrough for wildlife officials following a nationwide spate of rhino poaching. The breakthrough occurred when field rangers... Read Full Story