Kayden Kleinhans, a 27 year old from Cape Town, is the founder of the local NGO Global Wheeling Foundation. He set out on his epic solo bicycle journey on the 3rd October 2010 from the UK, cycled through Europe; hopped on a ferry from Spain to Morocco; crossed the Sahara Desert and travelled through the…
Plastic Not Fantastic: More than 20 000 volunteers trawled South Africa’s coastline on Saturday 17 September for International Coastal Cleanup Day. While this years inventory will only be available in October, the Cape’s top 5 litter items in 2010 were: 7 494 plastic bottle caps and lids, 4 867 plastic bottles, 4 199 food wrappers…
Greenpeace Africa columnist, Rex Wheeler’s , informative article, Nuclear Delusions, argues that nuclear power is not a solution to the global energy crisis. He points out that despite industry claims that that nuclear energy is a low carbon alternative, the evidence is to the contrary. He continues that the health risks involved are very real,…
cartoon economic growth Who Killed Economic Growth? is a persuasive short video from the Post Carbon Institute that argues that contrary to what many governments and economists are saying, mankind has reached a major turning point in its economic history. We have reached the limits of economic growth, due to the non-negotiable restrictions of the…
Plastic and the Great Recycling Swindle is an excellent article written by Lisa Kaas Boyle of the Huffington Post that discusses the problems with plastics and how the plastics industry lobby uses tactics of aggression and distraction in an attempt to hide these problems. She dispels some of the “myths perpetuated by the plastics industry…
GASWALK: antiFRACK protest march, on WOMEN’S DAY, 9 Aug from the Natural History Museum in the Company Gardens, Cape Town : assemble at 10h30 – walk begins 11h00.FRACKING TOUCHES WOMAN, IT HAS TOUCHED A ROCK! A group of Capetonians, initiated by renowned photographer Kian Erikson, has organised GASWALK, a protest march against fracking, in partnership…
Press Release: Anti-FRACK Protest: 18 and 19 July Shale Gas Conference, Hyatt Regency Hotel, Rosebank, Johannesburg
Photo: Karsten Wurth According to Greenpeace’s newly released Advanced Energy [R]evolution Report, about 150 000 new jobs can be created in South Africa in the renewable energy sector over the next 20 years. A renewable energy project which will see the methane emissions from 5 landfills around Johannesburg being converted into electricity and fed into…
