Eco Minute 13:30

BULLETIN 20 March 1:30 pm

Good afternoon, here is your Eco Minute:

# To celebrate Earth Hour, World Wide Fund for Nature South Africa will host a once-off outdoor cinema at the Kirstenbosch National Botanical Garden in Cape Town on Saturday. The classic animation, Wall-E, will be screened. Since its launch in Sydney in 2007, Earth Hour has emerged as the world’s largest grassroots environmental campaign, shining the spotlight on issues of climate change. WWF SA’s Pedzi Gozo says the success of Earth Hour has always been its ability to inspire and support people to act and advocate for change.

# The City of Tshwane says it is currently developing a crediting process for customers who want to feed in excess energy to the metro’s grid. Residents who have installed embedded generation systems like solar photovoltaics, waste-to-energy, energy storage, petroleum generators and bi-directional electricity meters, are welcome to feed excess electricity back into the grid. However, this requires approval from the metro and can only be allowed for registered embedded generation customers with installed bi-directional meters.

# And finally: The Ingcungcu Sunbird Restoration Project is helping an endemic bird species in Cape Town return to an old flight path, using fynbos gardens in schools across the Cape Flats. The disruption of bird migration and the destruction of their habitat have endangered many species endemic to the Cape Flats. Sunbirds cannot fly for more than a kilometre and a half without stopping to feed. The project’s Ceinwen Smith says establishing gardens at schools to act as filling stations for the little birds helps them to complete their natural migration.

Stay tuned for more news………….