May 31, 2011
There are two main reasons why using synthetic chemicals on your garden should be a no-no. Firstly, unless you get the balance absolutely perfect, the reality […]
May 31, 2011
Our Promising Future of Renewable Energy The cleanest solutions to global warming, air pollution and energy security are wind, water, and solar power (WWS). As Dr. […]
May 30, 2011
Bamboo is a sustainable, renewable building and decor material and should be considered whether you are building a new how or renovating your existing home. If […]
May 30, 2011
Efficient cookstoves and better crop seeds could play a key role in saving forests in sub-Saharan Africa, helping to cut emissions of climate-warming carbon dioxide, environmental […]
May 30, 2011
As the price of oil continues to rise amid political and social unrest in the Middle East, there’s one unlikely advocate for making fossil fuels cheaper […]
May 29, 2011
After reading Water Filtration: What You Should Know and with your water quality test results in hand, you are in a position to choose what type […]
May 28, 2011
Bottled water is definitely out and tap water is in, but with concerns of traces of metals, pharmaceuticals and other chemical residues in our water supply, […]
May 28, 2011
There’s been a lot of investment and deployment in renewable energy technologies for power generation and for displacing petroleum products, but as far as we’ve come […]
May 28, 2011
Toward the end of 2010, deforestation rates in the South American country of Brazil – home to the world’s largest rainforest (Amazon) – were on the […]
May 27, 2011
Green is everywhere these days – in news, politics, fashion, technology and gardening. That’s great, but being bombarded with a million messages from all sides can […]
May 27, 2011
I always thought the ‘it makes them grow faster’ reasoning for why they put antibiotics in animal feed was a myth and that the truth was […]
May 26, 2011
Many kinds of algae and cyanobacteria, common water-dwelling micro-organisms, are capable of using energy from sunlight to split water molecules and release hydrogen, which holds promise […]
May 26, 2011
Water is the most common substance on the planet yet it has some very unusual characteristics. Pure water is odourless and tasteless. Water has a very […]
May 25, 2011
It’s hard to imagine the world beneath the surface of the oceans, those vast areas of water like the Pacific, Atlantic and Antarctic, where old maps […]
May 25, 2011
If you’re trying to make your landscape more sustainable, one important thing to do is to reduce the size of your lawn and add more native […]
May 25, 2011
More than 900 new alien species have been encountered in the coastal environments of the eastern Mediterranean Sea in recent decades, including the poisonous pufferfish. The […]
May 24, 2011
Authorities from the Northern Cape have expressed their concern about the environmental impacts of often illicit alluvial diamond mining along the Lower Vaal River. Due to […]
May 24, 2011
Solar photovoltaic (PV) technologies have emerged as the “big winner” in South Africa’s 20-year integrated resource plan (IRP) for electricity, which indicates that the PV solutions […]