How do carbon credits benefit workers on an organic farm and the environment? Twenty-seven employees of the Spier wine estate, in Stellenbosch, have, through a climate change mitigation initiative, shared half the R204 000 paid out from carbon credits – derived from practicing regenerative farming on a section of the organically certified wine farm. An average of R4 000 … [Read more...]
Renewables surge ahead
20 April 2012 - EU energy ministers should be preparing for ever more renewable power in their discussion of long-term energy plans at an informal meeting, which started in Denmark yesterday and is continuing today, Greenpeace said. With renewables booming and nuclear power in terminal decline, energy ministers should back the clear favourite in discussions around the EU … [Read more...]
Steps and incentives to energy saving
In the current energy landscape in South Africa everybody agrees on the need to consume and waste less energy. But how? Many tips to saving are free and involve simple behavioural changes; such as switching off lights which aren't in use, turning off your geysers when you go away for the weekend or switching off your TV or any other electrical appliances at the wall rather … [Read more...]
