Renovagen, a solar energy company from the UK has developed the Roll Array, a high powered Solar PV (Photo Voltaic, powered by sunlight) type of carpet. It is a completely flexible, easy to transport, all in one microgrid.

As we all know we have inherited fossil fuels as the life blood of the global economy. Since the beginning of the industrial revolution which started in the late 18th century, the fossil fuel –namely the “oil and coal economy” started to emerge.

Available drinking water is something many of us take for granted, for some it is a challenging part of life that takes up many hours of precious time. Millions of people in developing countries struggle finding safe drinking water.

A world first, one of South Africa’s biggest pork abattoirs based in Cape Town has been given the green light to convert all of its waste to a biogas facility.

Coffee pods have changed the way we drink coffee. This tasty convenience, however, has an unsustainable downside being that the pods themselves are not recycled after use. European market leader Keurig brand’s K-Cup has particularly come under fire.

GDP (Gross Domestic Product) remains the main benchmark for countries measuring their success. In recent years new and alternative measures have been developed to measure societal success.

The technology of using captured greenhouse gasses from the air to make plastic polymers was developed by California startup Newlight Technologies and used commercially by Dell Computers on its laptop sleeve covers.

A lot has happened since the 74 year old highly acclaimed physicist and cosmologist Professor Stephen Hawking’s quoted in 1988 that “We are just an advanced breed of monkeys on a minor planet of a very average star. But we can understand the Universe.

The Philippi Horticultural Area (PHA) on the Cape Flats has become a scene of controversy regarding new proposed developments on the sensitive farmland/wetland catchment area of the Cape Flats Aquifer. The Cape Flats Aquifer is a massive integrated groundwater system which is estimated to be 630km2 - enough to supply a third of the City of Cape Town’s freshwater supply.

In rural parts of Nigeria several communities have started building houses made from empty plastic bottles collected for free. The process is as follow: 1) bottles are collected, 2) filled up with soil and compacted, 3) the bottles are then stacked and layered on each other with clay, 4) the necks of the bottles are secured and connected with string 5) followed by a final layer of clay.