South Africa Delves Into Carbon Storage Article by: Janine ErasmusSouth Africa is putting its weight behind research into carbon capture, with the recent launch of the South African Centre for Carbon Capture and Storage.The centre was launched in Johannesburg as a private/public/international par
2009 – The Year of Natural Fibres Article by: Janine ErasmusThe Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) of the United Nations has declared 2009 to be the International Year of Natural Fibres. South Africa´s Council for Scientific and Industrial Research, an organisation that has a large stake in
Purity. Energy. Balance Named after the Hindu goddess of refreshment and well-being, ila is a company with a vocation: to bring purity, energy and balance into everyday life through its range of luxury skincare products. Founded by registered nurse, aromatherapist and yoga teacher Denise Leicester,
Green Charcoal To Save Forests Article by: Mary AlexanderAn environmental NGO in northern Senegal is about to go to market with “green charcoal” – a household fuel produced from agricultural waste materials to replace wood and charcoal in cooking stoves.With Senegal’s trees disappearing, finding
The World´s Healthiest Mattress Sealy has launched two new eco-friendly mattress collections, Bamboo and Aloe vera. The Bamboo collection features bamboo ticking to the posturepocket and posturepedic mattress ranges. Bamboo ticking is natural, anti-bacterial, anti-fungal, breathable, soft, absorb
Geyser Tips Geysers are generally the largest energy consumers in a household (reputedly anywhere from 25-40%). If you have any geysers in the building – set the temperature down to 60C or even to 55C – geysers are often set much higher than this and doing this will help you save energy and money!
Tetrapak Recycling Collection Depots Now Countrywide! After months of hearing complaints from people that Tetrapak only had one recycling plant in Germiston, here is the good news… Tetrapak now has recycling drop off points countrywide. There are 18 different collection points around Cape
The ecoF3 A university team in the UK has developed an eco-friendly racing car designed to run on chocolate and vegetable oil. The new racing car is the ecoF3 from WorldFirst, a small team from Warwick University in the UK, which envisages the car – or at least some of its technologies – one day
Your Guide To Natural Fabrics With the plethora of fabrics out there, we thought we´d give you a breakdown and explanation of the most eco-friendly fabrics out there. These fabrics include: bamboo, organic cotton, organic wool, hemp and silk.Bamboo Bamboo is actually a grass and is the fas
What Have We Done…? I watched The 11th Hour this weekend and was thoroughly disturbed. The message it gave was, the environment will survive, its the human race that will not survive as we are hastening the conditions for our own demise. The earth will regenerate as it has all the time in the worl