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How Sustainability Creates Jobs Breaking News. Ecopreneur is backing Renewable Energy start-ups Apple to challenge Google’s PowerMeter in home energy game
 
How Sustainability Creates Jobs

How Sustainability Creates Jobs

Jonathan Lim – Huffington post The #1 argument by corporations and politicians who oppose reducing pollution, fighting climate change and moving America to a cleaner, greener, more sustainable future is that doing so will cost the country jobs and hurt the economy. In fact, since many corporations and politicians claim to believe that climate change is [...]

Breaking News. Ecopreneur is backing Renewable Energy start-ups

Breaking News. Ecopreneur is backing Renewable Energy start-ups

Ecopreneur is looking to back renewable energy companies who are at the start-up phase or who are a sustainable business looking to expand. Key to being successful as a start-up or an expanding established business is the ability to keep cash flow positive, and the ability to master the art of effective marketing. Ecopreneur is [...]

Apple to challenge Google’s PowerMeter in home energy game

Apple to challenge Google’s PowerMeter in home energy game

Monitoring how much power your home uses isn’t just frugal but an “in” and green idea. Google and Microsoft are already players in the home energy market but Apple is looking to change the game with two patent applications. There’s a simple reason for Apple to get into the smart grid market and that’s money. Cisco [...]

Work from Home in Water Conservation

Work from Home in Water Conservation

The New Year and decade of 2010 has spurned countless people looking for green business opportunities in the Southern Africa work space. Many believe water is going to be the commodity wars will be fought over in years to come.  Today’s Cape Times Business report suggests the Southern and Eastern cape is experiencing the worst [...]

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Google’s Power Meter meets the Energy Detective

Google’s Power Meter meets the Energy Detective

When Google started talking about its energy management web tool PowerMeter earlier this year, a big hurdle quickly became apparent: The search engine giant’s market for the device would be limited to consumers whose utilities are deploying smart meters (meters that have two-digital communication). That’s a small piece of a very small pie, given only [...]

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Posted in Renewable Energy

2010 Business Opportunities

2010 Business Opportunities

2010 presents itself as a great opportunity for business, especially with the FIFA World Cup being hosted in South Africa. However, the opportunities lie not in the way people expect them as the following book review spells out. To us ecopreneurs, the opportunities lie with South Africa being accorded 1st world status by being chosen [...]

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How Renewable is Renewable Energy?

How Renewable is Renewable Energy?

When people talk about renewable energy, they usually mean that the main source from which the energy is derived—wind, the sun, ocean waves and tides, the never-ending heat below the Earth’s surface—is available in endless supply and either remains relatively constant or continually regenerates as part of the planet’s natural cycles. For renewable energy to be [...]

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Posted in Renewable Energy

Barack Obama’s speech disappoints and fuels frustration at Copenhagen

Barack Obama’s speech disappoints and fuels frustration at Copenhagen

Barack Obama stepped into the chaotic final hours of the Copenhagen summit today saying he was convinced the world could act “boldly and decisively” on climate change. But his speech offered no indication America was ready to embrace bold measures, after world leaders had been working desperately against the clock to try to paper over an [...]

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Posted in Environment, Global Warming

Copenhagen – A brief summary of the problem!

Copenhagen – A brief summary of the problem!

Delegates from 193 nations are in Copenhagen to negotiate an agreement on curbing greenhouse gas emissions, in order to prevent dangerous climate change. Developing nations want rich nations to cut emissions by at least 25% by 2020 – rich nations are reluctant to go so far and want developing countries to curb emissions too. The US will [...]

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Copenhagen. How is this all going to end?

Copenhagen. How is this all going to end?

By DAVID A. FAHRENTHOLD and JULIET EILPERIN The Washington Post Friday, December 18, 2009 What the heck is all this? This is a United Nations-run conference that was — originally — supposed to produce a new global agreement to reduce greenhouse-gas emissions because what happens after 2012 under the Kyoto Protocol is uncertain. There is a legal agreement in [...]

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Posted in Environment, Global Warming

Green Business Opportunity

We offer: Green Business Opportunities

There's never been a better time to start a business with limited money. Climate change will ensure South Africans will be saddled with water shortages in the very near future.

Water Rhapsody green business opportunity in rainwater harvesting and the recycling of grey water is our first green business opportunity for aspiring ecopreneurs.

The second opportunity is for an ecopreneur to to jointly develop a Cape Town based business in the Security industry

We seek: Green start-ups or businesses looking to expand. We are looking for companies and start ups, especially in the renewable energy space who need to expand their markets. We provide backing, capital and a marketing platform in return for the opportunity to become a partner in your business. Contact us to begin a conversation.

Grey Water

Climate change will ensure South Africans will be saddled with water shortages in the very near future. The average bath uses 120 litres of water, a shower 80 litres and a washing machine 100 litres per load. That's a lot of water that you have to pay for, and then it all goes down the drain!

Recycled grey water can reduce your water needs by up to 50%. Check out the Grey Water FAQ for more information

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