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Reduce, reuse, recycle

Copenhagen is around the corner. Unfortunately it is unlikely that there will be any final treaty coming out of the Danish capital. Two weeks ago Barack Obama already warned that there is not enough time to secure a legally binding deal at the conference and hopes are set instead on making it a first-stage series […]

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Copenhagen debate heats up

The lead up to the Copenhagen Climate Summit this December is not looking particularly promising. The world is split into two camps and in the past few months they have both been drastically lowering what can be expected from them in December. On the industrialised nation front, the European Union has come out and said […]

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Germany’s green energy revolution

There has been a lot of noise lately regarding renewable energy and the lead up to the United Nations climate summit in Copenhagen. Arnold Schwarzenegger recently signed an executive order to increase California’s renewable energy mix to 30% by 2020. He has finally managed to prove there is something more bizarre than a bodybuilding governor […]

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How to talk to girls

At the tender age of nine, Alec Greven has figured out what most men will spend the rest of their lives puzzled and perplexed by … namely, how to talk to girls. This is the title of his first book that has reached the top thirty on the Amazon best seller list and is set […]

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‘Tis the season to be soppy

With the world markets a mess and most South Africans hopelessly loaded with debt, this Christmas season doesn’t look like it is going to be the most memorable for the retailer’s bottom lines. But I can see a definite silver lining to this dark cloud. Gift giving around Christmas time should never have become the […]

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Beauty doesn’t win rugby games

It’s not all bad, or all black, after the exceptionally disappointing 19-0 defeat against New Zealand on Saturday. Our team still managed to put together a number of very good-looking plays that saw us on the verge of a try many times throughout the game. The problem is that we never had the discipline to […]