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The Electric MINI Is At COP 17
06 Dec 2011 by Seth Rotherham / 1 Comment
The MINI E may well be the car that saves the world. It is currently at COP17 – the world’s climate change conference currently underway in Durban. This is quite a special little toy. Let me tell you a bit about it. According to plugincars.com, the 2010 Mini E – an all-electric version of the […]
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Investec Establishing €100 Million Energy Fund
02 Dec 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Investec has joined forces with the European Investment Bank to establish a funding facility that will promote energy efficiency and the generating of clean energy in South Africa. The venture will be rolled out to support various kinds of renewable energy projects across the country.
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Prince Philip Calls Wind Farms A “Fairy Tale”
21 Nov 2011 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment
He also called them “absolutely useless”, and he might have a point too. The Duke of Edinburgh, at age 90, rightfully points out that wind farms are heavily reliant on subsidies, and that those who claim they’re one of the most cost-effective forms of renewable energy believed in “fairy tales”.
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Japan’s Eco-Friendly Christmas Lights [PICS]
18 Nov 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
It’s the Year of Setsuden in Japan, which Google tells me means “saving electricity'”; this means that the lavish Christmas illuminations that Tokyo usually sets up are a little hard to justify. Minna no Illumi has found a pretty neat solution to the problem, though, with an entirely biodiesel-powered display.
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Samsung’s Solar-Powered Internet School
28 Oct 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Samsung Africa has unveiled a unique initiative they are calling the Samsung Internet Schools Programme. The initial programme will span five African countries: South Africa, Kenya, Nigeria, Senegal and Sudan. In time it will branch out into other African countries too. The school is a mobile, solar-powered, independent classroom housed in a container.
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Greenpeace Commissioned Giant Vitruvian Man On Arctic Iceberg [PICS]
09 Sep 2011 by Jasmine Stone / 4 Comments
Greenpeace! What a dumb idea. That giant recreation of da Vinci’s Vitruvian Man is going to disappear as soon as that iceberg melts – OH. Oh gosh. You’re trying to put together some sort of heavy-handed metaphor about ‘mankind,’ ‘melting,’ like some sort of iceberg, because of ‘climate change.’
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Massive Underground River Discovered Beneath Amazon
26 Aug 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Scientists have made a unique discovery in the Brazilian rainforests of the Amazon: a subterranean river that flows underneath the Amazon River, some four thousand metres below the actual Amazon River. It’s also roughly the same length of the Amazon River, according to the scientists.
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Google Street View Boats And Tricycles Start Mapping The Amazon Rainforest
19 Aug 2011 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment
Google has begun to map parts of the Amazon and Rio Negro Rivers, as well as small areas of northwestern Brazil, in an attempt to capture panoramic images of the remote region and its communities for the world to see. Google enlisted the help of locals and will use camera-equipped tricycles as well as boats to capture the imagery.
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Jozi To Get Recycling Laws
01 Aug 2011 by Jasmine Stone / 5 Comments
If all goes according to plan, it won’t be long before residents in Jozi face fines for improperly managing their waste. While the move will definitely result in a fair amount of complaining, it’s arguable that recycling has been happening around the world for ages. In fact, it should be a habit and duty for all of us.
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Did Shakespeare Smoke Weed?
29 Jun 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Personally, I took Shakespeare as more of an opium den kind of a guy, but I’ve been wrong before and I’ll be the first to admit that. Anyway, a South African anthropologist from Wits University has set in motion a request to open the graves of William Shakespeare and his family to determine, among other things, what killed them.
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Australia Plans To Shoot Camels To Generate Carbon Credits
09 Jun 2011 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment
The Australian government appears to be seriously considering a culling-for-carbon-credits plan to reduce the methane emissions from the estimated 1.2 million wild camels roaming the outback. Earlier today we reported that domestic cats in parts of Sydney have a curfew. Now camels are in trouble for burping and farting too much.
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EU To Pay Fishermen To Catch Plastic
05 May 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
You may or may not be aware of television programmes like Trawlermen or Deadliest Catch. Times can be more than just physically and emotionally tough aboard these fishing vessels, they can go ages without catching anything substantial too. Now the EU is planning to offer the fishermen an alternative income stream. And hopefully curb pollution obviously.
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Government To Consider Legal Rhino Horn Trade
04 May 2011 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment
Government has decided to mull over the idea of legalising the trade of rhino horn in a bid to curb the illegal trade and protect the endangered species. This comes in the wake of the news that we have lost over 138 rhinos in the first quarter of 2011.
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The Marijuana Carbon Footprint
15 Apr 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
That is correct, that grass might not be that green after all. A researcher at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory has revealed in a report entitled “Energy up in Smoke: The Carbon Footprint of Indoor Cannabis Production” that indoor growers account for approximately one percent of total US electricity use.
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Fake Weed Gets Naval Academy Student Expelled
04 Apr 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
It seems this is a common problem that the US Naval Academy faces. Another midshipman was expelled from the force for using or having a banned weed-like substance known as “spice”. No spice. This brings the total number of expulsions to 12.
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Teacher And Pupil Share Joint
31 Mar 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
A report in The Star newspaper has revealed how a Teacher has had to resign because he was caught puffing on the old knowledge cabbage with a pupil. It’s no big secret that South African schools have had problems with drug use over the years, but this is an upper class school, so it was probably good stuff.
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Peta Holds Naked Shower Protest, Causes Car Accident
25 Mar 2011 by Jasmine Stone / 2 Comments
I know we did this last week, but this is unfortunately the reality of the hour that one officially applies the Cape Town Friday Rule. It’s called habit, and there’s no better way to form a habit other than through repetition. Essentially you should now start embracing everything non work-like, so let’s celebrate with a naked shower protest.
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South Africa Launches Pirate Satellite Tracking Service
11 Mar 2011 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment
Initially instituted as a service to monitor the safety of our local and surrounding shorelines during the World Cup last year, the Long Range Identification and Tracking (LRIT) system is a welcomed spin-off from a successful local concept for maritime protection. It will also help to track shipwrecks and oceanic pollution.
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Camel Milk: In Fridges Soon
09 Mar 2011 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment
That’s right, camel milk demand is on the up and the word is getting out. Demand from diabetic patients, parents of autistic children and sufferers of Crohn’s disease has resulted in them becoming their own powerful lobbyists. Internationally that is. So when will camel milk sail into the mainstream market here at home I wonder?
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“You’ll Throw Away Your Gumboots And Relax” – Trevor Manuel
23 Feb 2011 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment
This was one of the remarks made by Trevor when he addressed a press briefing relating to the acid mine water drainage situation around jozi. We should take cognisance as it comes from the man who spent many years in charge of our country’s finances and who is also arguably the most trustworthy politician around. If that exists.
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Woman Arrested For Eating Out Of Tesco Bin
17 Feb 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Eating out of dust bins has been all the rage here in South Africa for quite a while now and our rubbish is sorted by bergies long before it even reaches the recycling area back at the depot. Now, a certain Sasha Hall has been arrested in the UK for “theft by finding.”
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Only A Quarter Of A Percent Of The Sky Searched
04 Feb 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Nasa has discovered a new habitable planetary system. Needless to say, calling the new system part of the Kepler-11 is mildly ironic considering what is being sent to orbit the pitches and dressing rooms of the approaching Cricket World Cup. But we won’t go there and that’s not what this is about either, it’s much more important.
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Plastic Bottle Cancer – Let’s Have That Chat
04 Feb 2011 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment
With the Radlantic continuing its game of lake-lake as far as Windguru will forecast (7 days ahead, actually), rumours of your plastic water bottle causing cancer are bound to peak. No doubt reaching for a sun exposed bottle of warm water will be met with upturned noses and precautionary words. So, hit them with the truth.
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Someone Is Selling ‘Thera-Putic Herbal Weed’ On The M63
03 Feb 2011 by Jasmine Stone / 3 Comments
My god, but I love this town. An entirely trustworthy-looking cardboard sign appeared on the M63 over the weekend, advertising ‘THERAPutic Herbal Weed’ which I haven’t called because chances are that the entirely whimsical sign will be made weird and uncomfortable by calling that number.
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3 December Is ‘Car Free Friday’
06 Oct 2010 by Seth Rotherham / No Comments
It’s ‘Car Free Friday’ on December the 3rd and everyone at 2oceansvibe is on board. It’s just one day and it’s going to make a difference – a BIG difference. And it’s fun, too! I mean seriously, do you know how much fun public transport can be? You might even learn to love it. I certainly don’t mind doing it – I mean seriously, these angels are quite a smooth ride.. [VIDEO]
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