Blog entries tagged green

Intelligent products: green milk bottles, thermo-regulating clothing and a calorie-counting plate.

Mon, 05 Sep 2011 22:00:00 +0100

What if your milk bottle turned green when the milk inside had expired? Imagine your plate could calculate the amount of calories it was holding. Or that your clothing recognised the temperature and adapted accordingly, to keep you cool when it was hot and warm when it was cold.

You may recognise these ideas from a series of TV adverts by Sasol, which were aired in 2004. At the time, Sasol’s aim was to show their company philosophy anRead More...

Let them eat meat

Tue, 14 Jun 2011 10:38:50 +0100

There’s no way around it. Getting an office to ‘go green’ is a huge challenge. Us office workers are all very much set in our ways.

Whether we prefer to read lengthy reports on paper instead of on screen, or to throw all our rubbish into the closest bin without a second thought, we generally don’t like to have to change.

We detest anything that requires effort while yielding limited reward. Heaven forbid we should do something for which weRead More...

Grahamstown's development goals

Wed, 20 Apr 2011 10:34:14 +0100

My friend, Lauren van der Vyver recently wrote an article about development and sustainability for Grocotts Online .

“A bold plan to create new business hubs in Grahamstown's townships was announced at a Mayoral Business Forum meeting at the Graham Hotel recently.

The Township Regeneration Strategy (TRS), which will be driven by Port Elizabeth-based town and regional planners Metroplan, in association with Makana Municipality, aims to create clRead More...

Nokia brings peddle power to Africa

Thu, 03 Jun 2010 15:59:40 +0100

Nokia today unveiled a unique new product for emerging markets. The peddle powered cellphone charger which offers “free and environmentally friendly electricity” to mobile device users, is a much needed addition to the Nokia line of products.

The low cost device whichRead More...

The human virus

Fri, 26 Mar 2010 13:54:50 +0100

I once heard an analogy that pointed out that as much as we hate insects, we cannot live without them.

The logic behind the analogy was that without insects, we humans would be living on a barren planet and as a result, we would all die.

However if we humans left the planet, the planet would flourish.

We have all the traits of a virus. In fact we are a virus, and the host that we iRead More...

Send an eCard this Valentine

Wed, 10 Feb 2010 10:25:09 +0100

As you might have noticed from our Newsletter yesterday, we at myDigitalLife have decided to cancel Valentines Day.

You can support this by sending out one of our "Cancel Valentine" eCards to someone you love, hate, miss or don't care for at all. Just for the fun of it.

eCards are also the green thing to do since you won't be supporting traditional cards that are printed on cardboard-like paper. Tell yourself that you are saving a tree this Valentine.