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The key to swinging the vote towards going green is three fold: Happiness, Health and Wealth. This all according to Simon Gear, the weatherman.

I love the concept of this book. It provides 365 simple, easy, effective and fulfilling ways to change your life for the greener.

Green, as we all know, is the new black so do us all a favour and jump on board with the latest and most important trend sweeping the world. Go green.

You can buy Going Green at Kalahari.net.

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Two days ago we traveled to the Darling Windfarm. Sounds nice and quaint I suppose. It is magnificent. It’s astounding and huge for four fans spinning at a rate of knots to create energy.

Another highlight (yes there were many) of yesterdays Cape Town trip was this Windfarm. It’s called a wind farm I can only suppose, because four windmills are being farmed for energy in a matter of speaking.

Here’s what was said to us by the person in the know.

Not only is this stuff sustainable and clean energy but it is scalable and will produce almost as much power as Koeberg. I’m in. On top of that there is talk of wave-generated power. fantastic stuff.

On top of the video I also managed to snap a few pictures:

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This post has a bit to do with Eskom but in actual fact it has more to do with saving our planet. I’m trying to take a post out of the Urban Sprout blog (get it? Page out of book, post out of blog) and post something about the environment.

Well this post is about Avusa. It’s not political, media-orientated or about acquisitions of the company. It’s actually about what Avusa is doing to save energy, power and electricity!

A week or two ago company employees received an email asking for suggestions on how the company can save energy.

The response email a week later was quite surprising and impressive. Avusa is doing alot and in fact they are doing most of the things that I have bitched about in the past. Driving home through Sandton I see every building with lights on all day and night, Alexander Forbes, Investec, JSE and many, many others. What a waste of energy. Not at Avusa. Lights will be switched off every night and a few will remain on for security reasons.

Then they have turned the geysers in the building to a more reasonable heat. The Escalators (four stories worth) are only operational for a few minutes each day in peak times. The light bulbs are currently being changed to energy efficient bulbs, the fluorescent roof lights are being culled from 3 per light fitting down to 1 and in some cases two fluorescent bulbs.

They have completely switched off their external billboards until further notice and parking lot lights in the basement parking areas have been completely minimised to save electricity down there too.

How incredibly brilliant is this?

I am confident that if more companies in Sandton alone made these sort of changes that there would be a less severe issue with power from Eskom. I may be talking without knowing but it’s a leap I am willing to take. With close to 4000 employees at one company, the above steps definitely have a huge effect in our area.

Let’s see who else can get on board and soon!

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