Solar Energy or Water Conservation? We’ll show you a choice of green business opportunities that can help you create your own economic freedom, allowing you to own and manage your own business. You probably searched the word “ecopreneur” in Google and arrived here. What is an ecopreneur? An Ecopreneur is an entrepreneur who pays attention [...]
EASTERN Cape businesses have been urged to move quickly and grasp opportunities provided by a leading-edge, power-saving project in Nelson Mandela Bay. The message came from Central Energy Fund (CEF) executive Jabu Shabalala and followed an announcement that a R10-million pilot project to install the first of a planned 100000 solar-powered water heaters is only [...]
More than 20 years ago, Mayor Richard M. Daley had a vision of a green Chicago, from trees and roofs to green buildings and alleys. While on a visit to Germany in the late 1990s, he saw a green roof on Hamburg’s City Hall and sought to replicate the idea in Chicago. He wanted the [...]
When a rural Saskatchewan town needed a population boost, they decided to offer prospective residents half-acre building lots for $1. But there was a catch: the newcomers would need to build a sustainable community from scratch and live off the grid. CBC’s The Passionate Eye followed the residents’ first year in the eco-village in Craik, [...]
According to Wikipedia, the Earth receives 174 petawatts (PW) of incoming solar radiation (insolation) at the upper atmosphere.[1] Approximately 30% is reflected back to space while the rest is absorbed by clouds, oceans and land masses. The spectrum of solar light at the Earth’s surface is mostly spread across the visible and near-infrared ranges with [...]
Svetlana Doneva www.fin24.com Johannesburg – The Industrial Development Corporation (IDC) said the majority of the R71bn earmarked for funding investment over the next five years will go to new businesses. That’s according to IDC CEO Geoffrey Qhena, who addressed media at the presentation of the development funding company’s results for the year to end-March [...]
Over the holidays, we reviewed all of the smart new business ideas we covered in 2009, and selected 10 that we believe will provide entrepreneurs with plenty of opportunities in 2010. Needless to say, it was a huge challenge to pick just 10 from such a wide range of innovative concepts. We hope you’ll find [...]
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 [...]
