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Create a Natural Swimming Pool

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By creating a natural swimming pool, also known as a natural swimming pond, you are helping the environment in several ways: you’re saving energy and water, lessening chlorine pollution, and starting a micro-environment that helps shift the general environment toward a healthy direction.

How to build a natural [...]

Going Green at Work: Top Tips

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More Work, Less Energy
For many people, a computer is the central tool at work. Optimizing the energy settings for computers and other devices can be more than a modest energy saver. Set computers to energy-saving settings and make sure to shut them down when you leave for the [...]

Safari lodge's solar energy plant could be precursor to 50-MW project

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South Africa’s first concentrated photovoltaic (CPV) solar demonstration plant of 60 kW is operational in the Western Cape, and supplying the daytime power requirements for the Aquila safari lodge, near Touws river.

Photovoltaic solar panels at Aquila Safari Lodge

The plant was built by German solar engineering [...]

Tourism must go 'green'

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Vilankulo coastline, Mozambique (November, 2003)

Durban – The tourism industry must lead the way to take SA into a low carbon economy, Tourism Minister Marthinus van Schalkwyk said.

“Rather than waiting for government to regulate its carbon footprint, its recycling practices or its commitment to the environmentally responsible [...]

1 300 GW of untapped hydropower in developing countries

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The World Bank has reaffirmed its commitment to “scaling up” its support for hydropower infrastructure in developing countries, which it describes as the largest source of renewable and low-carbon energy.

This policy aspiration, which is contained in a newly published report entitled ‘Sustaining Water for All in [...]

Green Technology - What is it?

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The term “technology” refers to the application of knowledge for practical purposes.

The field of “green technology” encompasses a continuously evolving group of methods and materials, from techniques for generating energy to non-toxic cleaning products.

The present expectation is that this field will bring [...]

Solar Over the Parking Lot

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Open air parking lots are great places to build solar power plants:

— Parking lots are nearly always near a power grid connection. This cuts electricity transmission losses as well as the cost of installing the solar plant.

— Parking lots are nearly always near at least one building [...]

Environmental courts to be established

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Environmental courts are to be established to address water crimes that threaten an already water-stressed nation, Water and Environmental Affairs Minister Buyelwa Sonjica announced.

Blue Scorpions officers removing an illegal sandbag diversion wall

“We are working closely with the South African Police Service and the directorate of [...]

Kick the Bottle Habit

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Save resources by drinking from a glass whenever you can, or use a refillable, stainless steel bottle when you are on the go.

Ever wonder where most of those plastic water bottles go that we knock back from every day? Into landfills, where they live on and on [...]

Experts urge faster, more relevant UN climate reports

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The UN panel of climate scientists should be more nimble at highlighting global warming trends and at fixing mistakes, experts said ahead of the planned August 30 release of a review of the group’s work.

UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon asked for an independent [...]