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Coping with My Carbon Emissions

Blog entry by Michael Baillie | January 5, 2011

What's your car's carbon footprint? Check out this site to find out.  For the December holidays my girlfriend and I decided to hire a car to get around. Over the course of the two weeks we drove 984 km, visiting the winelands...

Our Happy (Sp)ending

Blog entry by Michael Baillie | January 4, 2011

Throughout history different civilisations have used different stories to make sense of their place in the world. During medieval times it was the great chain of being: God at the top, below him the king, humans, animals, and so on.

This is what APP’s new sustainability commitments look like

Blog entry by Bustar Maitar | September 28, 2012

Asia Pulp and Paper has spent the last few weeks telling customers around the world that the company’s latest sustainability pledges mean that this time, the changes the company has announced are genuine. To the untrained eye new...

IPCC report: Extreme weather is fuelled by climate change

Blog entry by Brian Blomme, Greenpeace International | November 22, 2011

For the first time, climate scientists have teamed up with experts in disaster risk management on a report on climate change, which found that the consequences of climate change on people around the world are going to increase. The...

Come and Share the Sun at our Renewable Energy-Powered Picnic

Blog entry by Monica Davies | November 9, 2011

This weekend, Greenpeace will be casting some bright, solar-powered light over all the ways we can use renewables now! We're hosting a renewable energy-powered picnic at Soweto's Mofolo Park from 10am on Saturday 12 November. We...

Kusile: Climate Killer

Blog entry by Monica Davies | November 7, 2011

Today, Greenpeace Africa has brought something very far away from the minds of most South Africans to the top of talking trends. "Confronting Kusile" is the phrase making the rounds online this morning, and it's got many regular South...

Facebook's New Datacentre - A Renewable-Powered Friend?

Blog entry by Monica Davies | October 31, 2011

Last week, the tech and business media were all a-twitter about Facebook, after news that company will start constructing its first datacentre outside the United States, close to the Arctic Circle, in Luleå, Sweden. The centre will...

Giving South Africans their first light with solar power

Blog entry by Monica Davies | October 31, 2011

If you thought power cuts from our inadequate centralized energy supply were annoying, imagine if the power were always cut - no light at night, no hot water for dishes or clothes, and no easy heat in winter. Such is the reality for...

Stepping Into The Solar-Powered Limelight

Blog entry by The South African Sun | October 26, 2011

Lovely people, The South African Sun here. Can I have a few minutes of your time to boast about what I’ve been up to lately? You see, the fossil fools often quip that while solar power is a nice idea, it simply isn’t a viable...

Kusile Power Plant: The Waking Giant

Blog entry by Michael Baillie | October 21, 2011

The science is clear: burning coal is driving climate change – and Africa’s people are on the front lines. So, as the continent’s largest CO2 emitter – and the 12th largest in the world – South Africa has a lot to answer for in terms...

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