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Local Stories
Reclaiming green heart of Kommetjie Cape Town - Skilpadsvlei, a small seasonal wetland, lies in the green heart of Kommetjie. At the turn of the 20th century, ... |
5 Outstanding reasons to purchase a wood pellet fire place Pellet fireplaces are new in South Africa, imported from supplier Piazzetta in Italy and retailed by Calore Fireplaces acro... |
SAA one of six airlines to get IATA environment stamp National carrier South African Airways (SAA) has become one of the first airlines in Africa and one of six in the world to ... |
Long road ahead for perlemoen poachers Frank Barends, who is accused of being the mastermind behind a R2.07 billion national perlemoen poaching syndicate, will st... |
Varsity team develops ecofriendly shark barrier A team of Stellenbosch University researchers, led by botany and zoology department head Professor Conrad Matthee, has deve... |
Three more rhino poachers arrested at KNP and injured section ranger makes progress The South African National Parks (SANParks) yesterday announced that three more suspected poachers were arrested in the Tsh... |
Suspected rhino poacher killed A suspected rhino poacher was shot and killed and another suspect arrested in Limpopo, police said on Monday. Police spokes... |
SA’s beach invasion Cape Town - The beautiful “16 Mile Beach” in the West Coast National Park may look near pristine to the casual observer... |
Wood pellets: A more economic and environmentally friendly alternative energy source. Promotional Article: A dark and cold winter awaits. This is the warning the state utility Eskom issued to the South African... |
Finding Local Climate Solutions for Africa in Dar es Salaam The City of Dar es Salaam is hosting the Local Climate Solutions for Africa 2013 Congress (LOCS2013) in October to identify... |
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International Stories
 Unzip A Carbon Nanotube, Find A Graphene Ribbon, Create A “Flexible” Li-Ion BatteryIn what sounds like a solution in search of a problem, a few years ago researchers at Rice University figured out a way to create graphene ribbons by “unzipping” carbon nanotubes. |
 Fossil Fuel–based Power Stations Unnecessary To Back Up WindAn incidental note at the bottom of a wildlife article covering the culling of badgers in the UK newspaper the Daily Telegraph could have explosive results for the energy industry. |
 New UC-Davis Net Zero Sustainable Winery Will Turn Water Into Wine Into ChalkThe newly opened Jess S. Jackson Sustainable Winery Building at the University of California, Davis includes a full lineup of futuristic green tech bells and whistles, and the one that has us m... |
 Army’s “Center of Lethality” Targets Green Fuel Cell To Recover WasteA new green fuel cell is in the works courtesy of the US Army’s “Center of Lethality,” aka the Armament Research, Development and Engineering Center headquartered at Picatinny Arsenal in ... |
 Switchgrass Will Power Navy Jet Fighters With 95% Less Greenhouse EmissionsThe more you poke at the Navy biofuel initiatives, the more you just seem to rile them up. Earlier this spring, for example, the Navy went ahead and announced a new round of $18 million in matc... |
 Lithium-Sulfur Battery Race Heats UpResearchers at Oak Ridge National Laboratory are hot on the trail of a lithium-sulfur battery that packs four times the punch of conventional lithium-ion batteries. |
 New Alga Discovered In Colorado — Will Possibly Extend Biodiesel Production NorthwardsResearchers have discovered a new type of yellow-green algae — heterococcus sp. DN1 — that could potentially be a good source for biodiesel production and allow biodiesels to be produced mu... |
 Low Cost EV Batteries Get A Hand From Carbon NanotubesResearchers at the Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico have discovered a pathway for developing low cost electric vehicle batteries, which could lead to a new generation of affordable ... |
 Pig Poop Fuel Wins National Science AwardPig poop has been turned into alternative energy and fertilizer, a monumental effort that has been awarded a Federal Government 2013 Star Award. Let’s hear it for poo power? |
 Planetsolar, Solar-Powered Ship, Sets New Speed Record!This is a year for solar-powered nautical and aviation records being broken and new ones being set. PlanetSolar, the world’s largest solar-powered boat, has established a new speed record for... |
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Featured Articles
 Global Carbon Emissions Reached Record High In 2012Global carbon emissions reached a new high in 2012, rising by 1.4% to 31.6 billion tons, according to the International Energy Agency... |
 National Space Society Will Pitch Space-based Solar Power To G8 NationsIndia and the US-based National Space Society have finally announced the launch of a space-based solar power initiative that plans to... |
 Massive Coal Company Going SolarCoal India produces about 80% of India’s coal and they are installing a 2 MW solar power plant at one of their coal making sites. S... |
 12 Amazing Natural Wonders of AustraliaSeven wonders? How about twelve – in Australia alone? It’s nearly impossible to narrow down this continent’s most beautiful, inspirin... |
 Legally binding ban proposed on ocean fertilisationAustralia has joined with Nigeria and South Korea to propose a legally binding ban on commercial ocean fertilisation. But the move wo... |
 Real Sea Monsters: 4 Ocean Creatures with Scary LooksMore than 95 percent of the ocean remains unexplored, yet we know so much more about it than our ancestors did just a century or two ago. I... |
 Cow dung a detox for arsenic sludgeBangladeshi scientists have found in cow dung an efficient agent to treat the toxic sludge that is generated by the removal of natura... |
 Greening city infrastructure can help sustain economic growth – reportThe United Nations (UN) has released a report showing that greening city urban infrastructure can sustain economic growth while using... |
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Healthy Eating
Top 10 Most Common GMO Foods Genetically modified organisms, such as plants and livestock are already found in our supermarkets. GM plants are much more common th... read more |
Five Grossest Items in Your Kitchen Wondering what the grossest items in your kitchen are? No? I don’t blame you. It’s not something I like to think about, either. F... read more |
Is there BPA in your canning jar? We know that you can get exposed BPA from cans, plastic bottles, and even receipts, but did you know that the lids on conventional gl... read more |
Calcium May Help You Live Longer According to new research in The Endocrine Society’s Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism, calcium supplementation of... read more |
What Is GMO? And Is It A Safe Technology? GMO, or genetically modified organisms, are plants and animals that have been altered at the level of their DNA. These organisms are ... read more |
Coleslaw Recipes for Winter Coleslaw doesn’t have to be limited to summer barbecues. In fact, you can make delicious and exotic slaws from all sorts of late-fa... read more |
Chicken Stock Done Right Every other recipe calls for chicken stock, but anyone using store-bought cans or soups of it is missing out on the wholesomeness and... read more |
Five Intriguing Techniques To Keep Your Produce Fresh Tossing too much of the gorgeous produce you’ve brought home from the farmer’s market? I recently came across a post with intrigu... read more |
Books
 Environmental Science For Dummies Environmental science is a fascinating subject, but some students have a hard time grasping the interrelationships of the natural world and the role... Read more |
 The World Is Blue: How Our Fate and the This book tie-in to National Geographic's ambitious 5-year ocean initiative—focusing on overfishing—is written in National Geographic Explorer-in-Re... Read more |
 Green Smoothie Recipes & other Healthy S "Implement the green strategies outlined in Dan Esty's and Andrew Winston’s bestseller Green to Gold" Hard-nosed business advice for gaining c... Read more |
 The Green to Gold Business Playbook: How "Implement the green strategies outlined in Dan Esty's and Andrew Winston’s bestseller Green to Gold" Hard-nosed business advice for gaining c... Read more |
 Vegetable Literacy: Cooking and Gardenin In her latest cookbook, Deborah Madison, America's leading authority on vegetarian cooking and author of Vegetarian Cooking for Everyone, reveals th... Read more |
 It's All Good: Delicious, Easy Recipes t Last spring, after a particularly gruelling schedule and lapse of overindulgence, Gwyneth Paltrow was feeling fatigued and faint. A visit to her doc... Read more |
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