Toyota‘s manufacturing plant in Durban is installing solar energy in a R3.5-million project that is expected to save the company R95,000 a month on energy costs, according a media release. The car manufacturer had already installed 150 solar panels by June 2007 and has plans to install another 120 of them. So, by the end [...]
As important it is to change the lightbulbs, it’s more important to change the laws, says Nobel Prize-winning climate campaigner Al Gore in a new slide show he gave in February at the TED talks in Monterray, California. Gore wants this generation to rise to the environmental challenge presented to us by climate change, which [...]
Mozambican musician Feliciano dos Santos has won the 2008 Goldman Environmental Prize for Africa for his work promoting ecological sanitation in remote areas of Mozambique. The Goldman Environmental Prize honours grassroots environmental heroes from the six inhabitated continents. Dos Santos and his band Massukos use music to promote the importance of water and sanitation, HIV/Aids [...]
Environmental groups are concerned about plans by a sugar company to plant 20,000 hectares of sugar cane in the delta of the Tana River in Kenya, Britain’s Observer newspaper reports. Half will be for biofuels and half for food. An ethanol refinery is also part of the planned project. Although thousands of jobs will be [...]
New York psychiatrist and Star Trek enthusiast Willie Yee is in the process of converting his 2007 Toyota Prius hybrid vehicle into a Federation shuttlecraft, the Toyota Open Road Blog reports. Adjustments made so far include custom graphics, “spun-alloy Moon hubcaps”, blue undercar LED lights that flash in “a cool pattern”, and new seat covers. [...]
Tens of thousands of swallows have died in South Africa’s Limpopo province, AFP reports. The birds were due to migrate to Europe, but because of a cold snap last month they were unable to feed properly, says BirdLife South Africa. Farmers in the area were concerned that the birds had been poisoned. But News24 reports [...]
