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Has Fish had its Chips?

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Being an SA Brit with friends around the world, I have eclectic interests when it comes to receiving information. One of the noti...

Landfill gas-to-electricity project launched

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Pretoria - A landmark project that converts gas from household waste into electricity has been officially launched in Durban. A f...

SA partners to rebuild Sudan

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Pretoria - South Africa and the Governments of Germany and Southern Sudan have entered into a tri-lateral partnership to train co...

Another innovative investment in the strategic chemicals industries

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Press Release National Empowerment Fund announces progress on feasibility studies to commercialise the R40m Nkomazi Chemicals Tec...

Chameleons

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I know lots of people battle to spot them, but how many of you can say you have loads in your garden? I was one of those who coul...

‘GREEN’ DOLLARS POUR INTO AFRICA ON THE BACK OF PIONEERING CARBON OFFSET DEAL’

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Press Release Nedbank announced today that its partnership with Wildlife Works Inc. to make available to the international market...

Status not prerequisite for a good beach

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The City of Cape Town is defending the fact that two of its beaches have had their Blue Flag status withdrawn in the same month f...

Traps set for Umgeni crocodiles

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The Hansa Powerade Dusi Canoe Marathon is set to take place at 6pm on Tuesday and the canoeists have been told they have little t...

First Blog for the Simply Green website blogger Corinna Turner

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My first blog for the Simply Green website, so excuse me if I have a little stage fright and stumble over my lines a bit! I hope ...

International Stories

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Meatless Mondays: Carrot Potato Pancakes and Crispy Veggie Fritters

Carrots straight from the farm are dirty little freaks. Knobbly, hairy, misshapen and covered in soil, these root vegetables bear no resemblance to the neon orange and uniformly shaped clones found i...

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Affordable, Eco-Friendly Sanitary Pads for Ugandan Girls to Stay in School

[youtube:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FoKyF6G6VIM] Can you imagine having to quit school because you have begun menstruating?  That’s exactly what faces many girls in Uganda.  A donation to Glo...

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World’s Largest Producer of Toxic Chemicals, MNI, Continues to Contaminate the Entire Food Supply

There are measurable levels of MNI’s toxic chemicals in every type of food that has been tested. Most are completely unregulated. There is no requirement that food be labeled to let consumers know ...

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Ferrari to Unveil Hybrid Sports Car at Geneva Motor Show

 Well, it’s finally happening. Ferrari is officially making a hybrid…or at least officially showcasing one. At the Geneva Motor Show in March, Ferrari will display a hybrid variant of their 599 ...

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Eating Vegan: Tasty Milk Alternatives

Conventional dairy production is a lot different from the idyllic farms you see in those Happy Cow commercials on TV. Real dairy production forces cows to live in close quarters, involves nasty growt...

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Idling During School Pick Up Bad for Kids, Earth

According to the U.S. EPA, the personal automobile is the single largest polluter. Motor vehicles are responsible for about half of the toxic air pollutant emissions in the United States. But what ab...

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Each Ton of CO2 Worth $40 in Health Costs

Using coal for electricity produces CO2, and climate policy aims to prevent greenhouse gases from hurting our habitat. But it also produces SOx and NOx and particulate matter that have immediate heal...

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Nike Cuts Footprint, Launches GreenXchange, & More

Nike has been one green company lately — in the last year, it has pushed for a strong clean energy and climate bill in Congress on its own and in concert with others and it has helped to reduce def...

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On the Brink of Extinction: Call to Close Cruel and Inhumane Tiger Farms

Officials from 13 nations are meeting to discuss conservation efforts to save the endangered tiger.   Officials from countries where tigers still roam - Bangladesh, Bhutan, Cambodia, China, India, ...

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The Uncertain Future of Good Coffee

The industry that has been providing us with high quality coffee may seem to be doing well today, but it actually faces a combination of issues that may well render our lattes and capachinos a very e...

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Venison - sustainable and delicious!

Since I can rarely afford non-industrial meat, I eat mostly vegetarian. But in December, I moved back to Missouri to live with my boyfriend, who is definitely a meat-and-potatoes kind of guy. Luckily...

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Move Over Ritalin: Medical Marijuana in the Classroom

I have the fortune of working in a school district in northern California in the heart of marijuana country.  In the late summer at our back to school staff inservice, our superintendent told us we ...

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Meatless Mondays: Easy Veggie Burger with Carrots, Zucchini, Chickpeas and Halloumi Cheese

A lot of supermarket vegetarian burgers try so hard to resemble meat that they ignore the fact that vegetables actually taste delicious in the first place. Why try to replicate a beef burger with a m...

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Porsche Says No Way to Hybrid Sports Cars

Porsche will not build hybrid versions of the 911 and Boxster, according to CEO Michael Macht. While the company will make a hybrid Cayenne, they have no interest in altering their sports car lineup....

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Marine Life Flourishing Beneath Off-Shore Wind Turbines

Not only do off-shore wind turbines not harm marine life, but they actively encourage more of it, a very encouraging study has just concluded, after closely following the effects of the off-shore win...

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Grass Fed Beef Still Has E. Coli Danger

The benefits of organic and grass fed beef have been well documented.  Numerous studies have shown that organic and grass fed beef has significantly higher levels of Omega 3s and lower levels of sat...

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