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Alternate Energy Sector Under Real Pressure

The ongoing disagreement about whether biofuels were effecting food availability, which 2nd generation biofuels offered most, whether wind farms polluted, if nuclear was a better option etc have become somewhat less significant.

 

from: New York Times (click image for full story online)

 

Now the economy is the unarguable brake on the development [...]

Solar Car Race – My Posts at EcoWorldly

 

from: EcoWorldly (click image for full story online)

 

This is the full text, you’ll need to go to EcoWordly if you need references.

“South Africa, recently dogged by electricity shortages at the state-run generator (Eskom), is innovating strongly in the energy sector. I will be discussing examples of this innovation in future [...]

Posting for EcoWorldly

I have started writing posts for and environment focussed blog called EcoWorldly.

EcoWorldly brings you news on sustainable successes and ecological failures in other countries that offer lessons for green progress in America. Find perspectives and news on the environmental movement from around the world.

I will be putting links to these [...]

At last blogging from the iPhone

So at last I had my iPhone, connect it and start the process. But no, I have to upload the latest phone software while connected to iTunes.

But I am in South Africa and that’s not as easy as it sounds – three partial downloads and six hours later I’m online!

Discriminating against South [...]

South Africa’s Apps Store is Gameless!

Now that South Africa at least has an Apps Store we were getting excited BUT there is no games category and searching for games that exist on other country’s sites shows the apps don’t exist on the Apple’s South African site!

iTunes Music in South Africa – We Wish!!

Yes here it is Apple’s South African website promoting the purchase of music using iTunes BUT there is no music for sale through Apple in South Africa!

Once again we seem to be overlooked in South Africa.

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Freegans

Freegans are anti-consumerist individuals employ alternative living strategies based on “limited participation in the conventional economy and minimal consumption of resources.

Amongst other they salvage discarded but unspoiled food that has passed its best by date, as a political statement not because they are poor or homeless.

This seems a very weird and almost [...]

Free Online Information – Before You Start Solar Drying

If you search the blog you will see that drying is the frequent subject of posts. This is because it is an effective and simple preservation technology that can (depending on the process used) be implemented with little or no capital investment.

Given the dual problem of food shortages and soaring energy costs, it seems [...]

The 1 Piece Apple Laptops.

The more I read the blogs and listed to the podcasts the more I get confused. This writing and talk of machining the body out of a single block of aluminium is just not possible and anyway how would one get the stuff into it. But nobody stops and corrects the error – am I [...]

Brand Africa Project?

I came across this the other day. While I can agree with the basis that it now time for a better Africa I have not been able to understand what this is really about.

 

from: Brand Africa (click image for full story online)

 

I’m actually not too dumb, but don’t get it [...]