by PA Quinton, MyPR March 15, 2022 Checkers Sitari and the entire Sitari Village Mall located close to Somerset West, Cape Town have become South Africa’s first premium supermarket and shopping centre to run entirely off renewable energy from wind and solar sources. This is part of Checkers’ ongoing commitment to environmental sustainability and comes…
Eight endangered or threatened species could be wiped out in Arizona due to the massive amounts of groundwater being extracted to construct President Donald Trump’s border wall, a report has revealed. The desert springs and streams around the San Bernardino …
Private space flight pioneer Elon Musk shared a video Friday of the tangible progress being made on SpaceX’s newest craft, the Starship. “Was up all night with SpaceX team working on Starship tank dome production (most difficult part of primary structure),” …
When President Donald Trump first launched his 2016 election campaign, he promised to rebuild America, starting with the construction of a “beautiful” border wall between the U.S. and Mexico. In the years since, the “wall” as it has come to be known, has bec…
An ancient Mayan palace has been discovered in the middle of the Mexican jungle in Yucatán state, near the historic city of Kulubá. Mexico’s National Institute of Anthropology and History (INAH) announced the news in a press release on December 24, 2019. Th…
By PENNY SWIFT On September 23, 2019, the same day that Donald Trump made an unexpected appearance at the opening of the U.N. climate summit in New York, the World Green Building Council (GBC) has released a lengthy report on the “climate emergency” the world is facing. Titled Bringing embodied carbon upfront: Coordinated action for…
By PENNY SWIFT Less than a week after publication of a heritage impact assessment (HIA) on an iconic haunted ghost house on the M4 near Durban, the building was razed to the ground. The demolition was ordered by the local eThekwini Council that had previously demanded the owner, Saantha Naidu Group of Companies, either restore the building…
By PENNY SWIFT A controversial but much celebrated, award winning three-story floating school built on the Lagos Lagoon in 2013 has collapsed following torrential rain. Constructed as a prototype to show how floating buildings could improve the lives of the impoverished Makoko community, it was designed by Kunlé Adeyemi, a Nigerian architect, as a school. Called…
