Tracy Stokes is a mixed media artist living & working on the slopes of Devil's Peak in Cape Town. She likes to paint on re-purposed surfaces and recycle creatively in all aspects of her life.
BSkyB, Sky News’ parent company, is the first major media company to go “Carbon Neutral”. The company will also be spreading the green message to its growing base of more than 8.1m customers, helping them to become better informed and… Read More »(The) Sky Turns Green
REM are singing along to the BBC Climate Chaos television ads, and seeing those apolcalyptic images whizzing across the screen makes for worrying watching. I will be sure to see as many of the series of programmes as possible, and… Read More »It’s The End Of The World As We Know It
This funny short student film is a parody of the television show Queer Eye for the Straight Guy. The film illustrates simple changes you can make to reduce your impact on the earth. Filmed in the dorms of Humbolt University,… Read More »Short Film: Green Eye for The Common Gal
Tumelo Ramolefi is an inner-city hawker in Johannesburg, but what makes him different is that he isn’t selling “smileys” and “runaways” (boiled sheep heads and pigs trotters), t-shirts and socks, or even black bags and coathangers. Tumelo’s stall , on a pavement in Joubert Park, is selling innovative renewable-energy gadgets and his gadgets are proving very popular with Jo’burg’s working class.
Mr. Ramolefi’s best-sellers are ethanol gel stoves and lamps, a greener, healthier and safer option than the parrafin and coal that is used by so many of Johannesburg’s people. His ethanol gel products and appliances are supplied by GreenHeat in Durban, who make the stoves and ethanol gel locally. The cost of the stove is R160 (roughly £15) and the lamp is R50 (about £5).
This stove is number one, said Maria Ndlela, who works in a recycling centre in Joubert Park and has owned her stove for two months. She says it is easy to use and, while paraffin is cheaper than the gel, the gel is more cost-efficient in the long run. Five litres of gel costs R60 and paraffin costs R21,99 for the same amount. Gel lasts. If you dont use it too much, five litres of gel takes you a month to use, but five litres of paraffin lasts only three days.
Read More »Greener, Healthier Energy Options for South Africans
It’s been said that John Romano’s singing voice evokes Lou Reed, and that his new song “Green Girl”, that is doing well in the mainstream radio charts in the US, is reminiscent of some of Reed’s lighter work. Laura Glendinning,… Read More »“Green Girl” Hits Mainstream Radio Charts
Penney Poyzer, of No Waste Like Home fame, gave birth to a daughter last week and took her placenta home to compost it. The placenta would only have been incinerated and what a waste of goodness that would have… Read More »Penney Composts her Placenta
Celebrate World Fair Trade Day on Saturday the 13th of May by: visiting one of the events listed at the World Fair Trade Day website finding out more about Fair Trade from the Fair Trade Foundation locating your nearest Fair… Read More »World Fair Trade Day – 13th May
Mackie’s of Scotland make ice cream with fresh milk, cream and renewable energy. They have installed a single Vestas V52 wind turbine and aim to become Britain’s greenest company by making more energy than they consume. In the past year,… Read More »Mackie’s Make Wind-powered Ice Cream
BigBarn helps you find local food, just enter your postcode, and it will tell you your nearest farmers’ market, farm shop and about local producers in your vicinity. And they have just teamed up with the Telegraph to offer us… Read More »Produce For Less