My environmental action plan is simple, keep what I do simple, don’t use more than I need and work from home embracing digital technology. What’s your approach?
Category Archives: Sustainability
19
April
2009
Earth Mosaic celebrates Earth Day in Photos
April the 22 is not only election day in South Africa but also one of the days set aside to celebrate the Planet, Earth Day. An inspiring project called Earth Mosaic aims to celebrate a day in the life of Planet Earth with an International Earth photography project. Calling all photographers and Earth-lovers … Help [...]
26
March
2009
Vote with your light switch – Earth Hour 28-03-09
The fact that we are in the middle of a climate crisis might have slipped the mind of a few of us due to the economic crisis currently hitting us, so Earth Hour comes along as a nice little reminder while we’re all distracted by all the other challenges we’re grappling with. 2,848 cities, towns [...]
20
April
2008
Springwise: See-saw power for schools
Human powered energy generators are on the rise and many different designs have been surfacing in the last year or so. This one uses an existing fun activity to produce some much needed energy. Daniel Sheridan, a student in consumer product design, won three separate awards amounting to GBP 5,500 earlier this year for his [...]
31
March
2008
2 eco-friendly bikes from different sides of the tech divide
The one is a slick, high tech hydrogen cell powered beauty which I would love to get my hands on and the other, a humble, down-to-earth bamboo construction which I wouldn’t mind trying out either. Both aim to approach 21st Century transportation in an innovative yet clean way, but don’t expect these to meet each [...]
