9 posts tagged with environment
‘Change your Bill Type’ on Telkom eServices
In a post last month I was complaining that Telkom don’t provide their users with an option to receive their bill electronically, apposed to the minimum of 3 A4 paper pages that they deliver via post every month.
Well I was very happy to discover, after logging into their eServices (Invoice Center) system on the weekend, that they’ve … view full post
Bottled Water
More than 70 percent of the Earth’s surface is covered by water, but less than 1 percent of it is actually drinkable. With much of that drying up through desertification or becoming too contaminated for human consumption, it’s clear that rethinking old water-use habits is a really important part of greening the future.
A few weeks ago I started collecting practical … view full post
The Law of Interdependence
Via Neverness:
Earth Day Cometh and Earth Day Goeth (and Where Have All the Bees Gone?)
Below is an extract from an Earth Day essay (dated 20/04/2007) by Paul Watson – “founder of the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society and a significant, albeit controversial, figure in the environmental movement and the movement for animal rights”:
Albert Einstein once wrote
Photos of the moon
What is it with photos of the moon? I’ve taken a few myself, but only to test a lens or experiment with taking a photo through binoculars and silly things like that. I guess it’s just one of those obligatory shots, like Pisa pushers – a Flickr group dedicated to pictures of tourists “pushing” the Leaning Tower. Score zero … view full post
Kyoto Protocol into effect
At the time of writing this, the poll on CNN.com reads: “Who do you think is the bigger threat to the United States?” with the following options: (a) Al Qaeda, (b) Syria, (c) Iran.
As the biggest single source of greenhouse gas and accounting for more than a fifth of world pollution, shouldn’t they include themselves in that list?
The … view full post
Who’s to blame?
I found this over at Jo’blog – Who’s to blame? – and had a good laugh.
I’ve said it before, I hate web advertising. But I despise billboard advertising. And not only because a billboard advertising company is a past client and the owner was an unappreciative prat: there’s … view full post
Save trees…
Eat a beaver.
Nuclear waste
With the recent publicity around Greenpeace demonstrators staging a protest at Koeberg, a nuclear power station 27km north of Cape Town, I decided to bounce over to Eskom’s Koeberg website. They have an ‘Environment’ section, yet none of the pages exist. Nor can you find any information on the future of waste, … view full post
Earth Day 2002
Today is Earth Day 2002, the 32nd annual observance.