 Veteran South African comedian Mark Sampson and his family will attempt to smash the Guinness World Record for the longest journey made using alternative fuel behind the wheel of their Big Green Truck.
From June 2013,the Sampson’s,wife Sam Pearce and children Ruby (12) and Zola (eight),will spend the next two years living in a customised truck on a journey they’ve named Africa Clockwise. The family will stop in 40 countries along the way and return to SA by September 2015. ANY OIL WILL DO Sampson’s truck has a master bedroom,kitchen,toilet,shower and two additional beds. The vehicle has six solar panels and can be powered by any cooking oil
Continue reading Attempt to smach Guinness World Record  Green Office Week:recycle paper
Estimates from the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) predict total paper consumption to rise from the current 400 million tonnes to between 450-million and 500-million tonnes by 2020. As a result,South African businesses are being urged to realise the vast environmental and business benefits of recycling unwanted paper,as paper consumption shows no signs of abating. This is according to Dorota Boltman,Divisional Director of Rainbow Paper Management – a group company of JSE-listed Metrofile
Continue reading Green Office Week Reduce carbon emission at the office: Lead the team in reducing carbon emission
1. How does your workplace view carbon emissions and carbon footprint? Try to get some info on this if possible and available. 2. It’s a good suggestion to make people aware of how much they contribute to the carbon footprint through their own travel to-and-from work. 3. Awareness leads to action:get everyone involved in reducing their own and the company’s carbon footprint. 4. Encourage car sharing schemes. Individuals who live close to one another can start traveling together in the same car whenever possible. 5. Encourage use of public transport,park and ride and cycling to work if
Continue reading Green Office Week  It’s Green Office Week!
Every day this week,we’ll be sharing practical tips on how to make your office more environmentally friendly,courtesy of the good folks at Green Office Week. Lead the team in saving water 1. Determine water requirements for your floor,department, building or unit of production. 2. Someone should be appointed to track water usage and identify strengths and weaknesses. 3. Know where your wasted water is going and try to get it recycled
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It’s National Water Week! In the garden: - Be water wise by watering only in the early morning or late afternoon – NOT during the heat of the day.
- Mulch your plantings. A 5-10 cm layer of organic mulch like shredded leaves,bark or compost slows evaporation by shading the soil,slows water runoff,keeps down weeds (thus lessening competition from them for water),enriches the soil and improves plant health.
- Reduce the size of your water-guzzling lawn and when you do mow,raise the cutting height. Lawn irrigation accounts for about 30% of water consumption;the average lawn uses about 50 000 litres of water during summer.
In the office:  Water ……Love every drop of it.
Water is a hidden service. We watch the rain pour down;we open our taps and then we wonder why we should pay for water… there just seems to be so much of it! What we don’t realise is that the water in our taps requires pipelines,pumping stations,pipes and massive infrastructure and that’s what we pay for. World Water Day on March 22,2013 and South Africa’s own Water Week in the same month,is a celebration of water and an urgent reminder of the value of this one essential element that unites all living beings. In April 2012,Minister for Water and Environmental Affairs Edna Molewa announced that over R570-billion would be needed for investment across South
Continue reading Save Water,Save Money,Save our Planet  The ex-Soviet state of Turkmenistan announced on Saturday a new campaign to plant three million tree saplings this year with the aim of transforming the desert Central Asian nation into a “blooming garden”.
President Gurbanguly Berdymukhamedov signed a decree ordering ministers to plant the three million trees in 2013 alone,government newspaper Neutral Turkmenistan said on Saturday. The tree-planting would be carried out with the aim of “transforming our country into a blooming garden and further enriching its beautiful nature in the era of power and happiness,”Berdymukhamedov was quoted as saying in the decree.
Continue reading A “blooming garden”for Turkmenistan  A 200-page report on Endocrine Disrupting compounds (EDCs) released by the UN earlier this week has highlighted environmental and health risks facing many countries including South Africa.
The compounds have the potential to cause wide ranging health complications including breast cancer in women,prostate cancer,attention deficit and hyperactivity in children,as well as thyroid cancer. According to Professor Edmund Pool,University of the Western Cape expert on EDCs,sewage treatment plants do not remove all the compounds. “All the sewage treatment plants I’ve tested in the Western Cape were found to remove 80% of hormones,the untreated 20% has been shown to
Continue reading EDCs found in water  President Jacob Zuma ignored the country’s electricity crisis in his state-of-the-nation speech on Thursday,said the environmental organisation Greenpeace.
“Greenpeace believes that if the government were serious about creating a sustainable future based on job creation and energy security,much more ambitious investments in labour-intensive renewable energy would be made,”it said in a statement. Greenpeace said SA faced sharply increasing electricity prices and an impending water crisis because of its coal expansion plans. “Government’s estimated R47bn worth of investment in renewable energy projects is a step in the right direction,”it said. However,while this sounded substantial,it was minuscule when compared to the well over R200bn being spent on the new coal-fired power stations Medupi and Kusile,or the estimated R1 trillion a planned nuclear programme would cost. “The reality is that investments in coal and nuclear take this country two steps backwards,preventing the growth of the renewable energy sector,”Greenpeace said. | 
Water Rhapsody a WWF Green Trust award winner can save us up to 90% of our municipal water bills.” |
Veteran South African comedian Mark Sampson and his family will attempt to smash the Guinness World Record for the longest journey made using alternative fuel behind the wheel of their Big Green Truck.
