SULPHUR BUSTING FIRST – A new 5,400MW coal-fired power station planned for the Mpumalanga town of Witbank will be fitted with technology to control sulphur dioxide emissions. This will be the first time Eskom installs technology to control sulphur dioxide emission. In the past the utility only regulated dust emissions. Environment minister Marthinus van Schalkwyk [...]

There have been ads on TV lately promoting dishwashers as more energy efficient than hand washing – I took that information with a pinch of salt, coming from the appliance manufacturers as it did. But something on the Friends of the Earth website has made me take another look at the issue. It says that [...]

The extraordinary piece of urban architecture on the right is the Caixa Forum museum in Madrid. The building has been restored and given a two-storey addition made from rusted iron. This is juxtaposed with a stunning 24-metre-high Patrick Blanc vertical garden on one of the walls of the square in front of the building. Read [...]

Africa is at risk of losing the glaciers that are a permanent source of water for the Nile, the WWF reports. The glaciers on the Ruwenzori Mountains have shrunk by 50 percent in the past 50 years and 75 percent in the past century, a WWF team has found. This is very bad news for [...]

Pictured is the headquarters of Abu Dhabi’s Masdar City. The building will be the world’s first large-scale positive energy building – which means it will produce more energy than it consumes – according to the architecture firm chosen to design it. The building will also be the first in history to generate the power needed [...]

We’ve mentioned before that with underinflated tyres your car use up to 4 percent more petrol. They are also less safe to drive on. But here’s a factoid from a report in the Sunday Independent that you may find interesting if you’re driving from the Highveld to the coast this Easter. Apparently tyres slowly deflate [...]