Large Cape wind farm approved
Source: News 24
Cape Town :: South Africa | updated 2013-05-17 11:32:07 -0700 | green-news
A utility-scale wind farm that will be built near Vredendal is expected to generate 100MW of energy. The Sere Wind Farm which will be operated by Eskom is about 300km from Cape Town and the utility ordered the wind turbines...
Minister favours nuclear power
Source: News 24
Cape Town :: South Africa | updated 2013-05-14 12:33:33 -0700 | green-news
Developing nuclear power stations carries "tremendous benefits" for South Africa, Energy Minister Dipuo Peters said on Tuesday. Opening debate in the National Assembly on her department's R6.6bn budget for this year, she told MPs many of the country's older coal-fired...
Maybe It's Time To Swap Burgers For Bugs, Says U.N.
Source: National Public Radio
Cape Town :: South Africa | updated 2013-05-14 09:36:50 -0700 | green-news
Yes, we talk a lot about eating bugs here at The Salt...But insect cuisine isn't just a crazy fad for Bay Area and Dutch foodies, or for Israelis plagued by locusts: In a report out this week, the U.N.'s agricultural...
Huge Potential For Generating Clean Energy In Africa
Source: Scoop
Cape Town :: South Africa | updated 2013-05-13 17:32:04 -0700 | green-news
Hydropower, the most commonly used renewable energy source, is estimated to be utilized at just 4.3 per cent of the continent's total capacity although recent years have seen efforts to ramp up clean energy, with North African nations leading in...
Africa: Carbon Dioxide in the Atmosphere Reaches Critical Level
Source: Africa Headlines
Cape Town :: South Africa | updated 2013-05-13 08:13:00 -0700 | green-news
On the 10th of May 2013, the Mauna Loa Observatory in Hawaii announced that the average CO2 concentration in the atmosphere crossed the threshold of 400ppm (parts per million). Atmospheric levels of CO2 have been steadily rising for 200 years,...
Nuke power need for electric cars
Source: News 24
Cape Town :: South Africa | updated 2013-05-13 06:30:29 -0700 | green-news
USA Lay-offs, financial woes and low demand... the road ahead looks bumpy for electric cars. An automotive analyst echoes what we at Wheels 24 have been saying for years about electric cars: there's inadequate infrastructure to provide for electric cars,...
Kenya: EABL to Plant Sorghum in Kirinyaga
Source: Africa Headlines
Cape Town :: South Africa | updated 2013-05-12 23:20:16 -0700 | green-news
The East African Breweries Limited plans to put up a sorghum project in Kirinyaga.Senior manager Patrick Kamunge said Kirinyaga has the potential to grow sorghum. "The soil is very rich. I am going to send a team of agriculturists who...
Kenya: Declare Tana River Disaster Zone - Red Cross
Source: Africa Headlines
Cape Town :: South Africa | updated 2013-05-10 09:44:47 -0700 | green-news
The Kenya Red Cross Society wants the county and national government to declare Tana River as a disaster zone. Secretary General Abbas Gullet said the area was faced with many tragedies including the recent bloody clashes that left about 200...
Canadian Government Should Ignore Greenhouse Gas Impacts
Source: Scoop
Cape Town :: South Africa | updated 2013-05-09 19:33:19 -0700 | green-news
Energy plans should be restricted to addressing only the environmental concerns we know to be real, such as air, land and water pollution. The linkage between energy usage and climate is far too tenuous to be included in any serious...
Gordhan: An African revolution looms
Source: News 24
Cape Town :: South Africa | updated 2013-05-09 23:50:02 -0700 | green-news
Africa's potential to contribute more significantly to the global economy is increasingly being recognised around the world, Finance Minister Pravin Gordhan said in Cape Town on Thursday. "There's a great deal of excitement around the world... about South Africa as...
Tiger abuse prompts anger in China
Source: News 24
Cape Town :: South Africa | updated 2013-05-07 11:52:27 -0700 | green-news
Beijing A Chinese tiger park has sought to quell public anger after images of holidaymakers sitting astride a strapped-down cub prompted outrage online, state media said on Tuesday. Pictures taken at a Siberian tiger park in northwest China's Jilin province...
KZN greening gets a boost
Source: News 24
Cape Town :: South Africa | updated 2013-05-06 07:12:10 -0700 | green-news
Greening in KwaZulu-Natal may get a boost through a government-sponsored programme to protect and rehabilitate the environment. The department of environmental affairs has allocated R33m over a three year period to the Wildlands Conservation Trust's Natural Resource Management Land User...
South Africa: Electricity - We Will Be Held to Ransom If We Don't Fight Back
Source: Africa Headlines
Cape Town :: South Africa | updated 2013-05-06 06:39:40 -0700 | green-news
Living with an electricity monopoly armed with a mandate to provide basic services can be a double-edged sword. If well run and efficient it can be a boon for consumers and the public in general. If poorly and inefficiently run,...
Kenya: Tana Delta Leaders Want Irrigation Project Stopped
Source: Africa Headlines
Cape Town :: South Africa | updated 2013-05-06 00:28:09 -0700 | green-news
Tana River leaders want the government to disband the multi-million Tana Athi River Development Authority project as it had contributed to the floods that has affected thousands of families in the region. They said Tarda's rubber dams prevent water from...
Toronto filmmaker tells the tale of a new wave of environmental activism
Source: The Globe & Mail
Cape Town :: South Africa | updated 2013-05-05 18:24:39 -0700 | green-news
EDT A 22,000 name petition was presented to legislature calling on government to protect old growth forests in British Columbia recently. On March 16, 2013, over a 1,000 people rallied together and marched from Centennial Square through downtown Victoria to...
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