Tomorrow from 12pm to 2pm environmental activists will be marking April 1 by handing over this year’s South African Fossil Fool of 2009 Award to Sasol at their head office in Sturdee Avenue, Rosebank, Johannesburg. The award is Earthlife Africa’s way of highlighting the role Sasol plays in warming our planet.
This weekend is the Green market at Pretoria’s botanical garden, so look out the picnic basket. This week’s theme is Reduce. Reuse. Recycle. The organisers are looking for artists/entrepreneurs with products made from recycled materials.
I decided to measure my household’s contribution to Earth Hour on Saturday to get an idea of what switching off my lights for an hour could potentially mean for the planet. Turns out that my household consumption dropped by 250 watts. In South Africa, this means that 24kg less carbon dioxide was pumped into the air because of me. Plus, my family spent a relaxing hour looking at the stars and actually talking to each other instead of watching the TV.
It’s hard to believe but a 1972 Datsun that has been converted into an electric vehicle can thrash a Corvette and a BMW M3 on the drag strip.
Here’s your chance to join an international call for action to fight climate change. In four days’ time, on Saturday March 28, lights will be switched off for an hour all over the world at 8.30pm as a sign of support for our overexploited Earth. This year one of the aims of the WWF’s Earth Hour is to send a petition of 1-billion names to the United Nations climate change conference in Copenhagen in December. Make sure yours is one of them by signing up for the WWF’s Earth Hour campaign.
Today we launch a new way to keep up to date with environmental news and issues. In addition to the regular news headlines, newsletter subscribers can now also download an extra electronic newsletter. This newsletter, in PDF format, goes beyond just Treevolution’s weekly headlines and looks at issues in a little more detail. We’ve designed it to be both easy to read onscreen and printed out (if you must).
