Renewable energy is energy derived from sources that are being replaced by nature, such as water, wind, solar, biomass or geothermal. Renewable sources will always be available (within the limits set by nature’s capacity to replenish them) and are essentially non-polluting if applied correctly.



Key renewable energy sources



Hydro Power ranges from hydro-electric power stations, to tidal power and wave power.



Wind power is becoming… Continue

Sometimes you've got to let everything go - purge yourself.
If you are unhappy with anything - whatever is bringing you down, get rid of it.
Because you'll find that when you're free, your true creativity, your true self comes out."


Tina Turner

If you are truly a real Cape Tonian, you will nod your heads in total agreement for my other Local Hero . And when I say "truly" I am not talking about sipping Vida Coffees on Kloof Street or cocktails in Camps Bay. I am talking about downing an ice cold Bashews soda outside on the grimy pavement, and then returning it for your deposit back.( I could of equally of chosen Double-O, which is just as fantastic).



Cape Town's soda solution! Every well known corner shop in Cape Town stocks… Continue

Meet Alfred Sirleaf the world's first analogue tweeter with over 10 thousand followers.

He runs the " Daily News - @dailynews " a news hut by the side of a major

road in the middle of Monrovia.

Alfred works from a tiny newsroom where he tweets " composes " the days

headlines on his blackboard , a meticulous process that can take a couple of hours.

He carefully draws lines on the board with light-coloured chalk to ensure that

the tweets are written in a straight… Continue

Local Hero Milo Yiannopoulos invited Londoners through

Social Networking sites Facebook & Twitter to moonwalk as a

tribute to Michael Jackson .

It all started when " Somebody said it as a joke on twitter at 9.30 this morning

that we should do this mass thing in Liverpool Street Station "

" I thought that's funny , and then a couple of minutes later , I thought let's

actually do it ! "

He later paid tribute to Michael Jackson and said " Well obviously… Continue