DeepGreen Metals Inc., today announced it has formalized partnerships with leading scientific research institutions and internationally-renowned universities in a significant investment into its ongoing deep-sea discovery program to characterize the potential impacts of lifting polymetallic nodules up from the bottom of the Clarion Clipperton Zone (CCZ) of the Pacific … [Read more...]
Replace shaky fossil energy with reliable sunlight
Eskom energy is shaky. First you have it, then you don’t. In the bigger scheme of things this is a good thing. We need to shift off fossil fuels anyway to save the climate. The more they charge us for energy, the better our motivation to take the plunge and do the sideways jump to renewables – essentially free power. Barring your installation of course. There is only one way … [Read more...]
Pioneering recycling Part 1: Against all odds
No matter where I travel across the country, I inevitably find folk lamenting their desperate desire to have their household waste recycled. Either there's an almost uniform waste guilt permeating South Africans, or perhaps talking recycling is the average person's default recourse when they find themselves in the company of a serious greeny. That's when I realise again how … [Read more...]
Aluminium foil recycling campaign for green 2010
A giant soccer ball made of used aluminium foil is planned by an aluminium collection drive and competition with great prizes. In supporting South Africa's promise to deliver a greener 2010, the Brightwater Commons in Randburg, in conjunction with the Aluminium Federation of South Africa and Hulamin, has launched a recycling campaign for the collecting of used aluminium foil … [Read more...]
Keeping warm in recycled bottles
It's the middle of a cold and stormy Cape winter and your hollow-fill duvet or thermal underwear might just be made from recycled PET. The most common container in the soft drink market today in South Africa is the plastic bottle, the polyethylene terephthalate (PET) bottle. The PET container is the transparent, rigid plastic bottle used to package bottled water, carbonated … [Read more...]
