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Our talk in May should be of interest to all who live on the Cape Whale Coast. It examines the serious social, political and economic issues around abalone. Dr Serge Raemaekers will be our speaker on Tuesday 19 May at 17h30 at the Green House. His topic is Economic and Social Consequences of Abalone Poaching.
WCC offers you the expertise to keep you laughing in the light during load shedding. Why not buy a UPS inverter set from Whale Coast Conservation and have electricity to continue working through Eskom’s load shedding episodes? WCC tailors an inverter system to suit your specific needs. WCC has 600 Watt and 1200 Watt inverter systems, and offers larger systems …
One event you should not miss is the WCC exhibit “Exploring Energy” at the Hermanus Flower Festival from Thursday 25th to Sunday 28th September. The fabulous Fernkloof Nature Reserve is the setting for the Hermanus Flower Festival which this year pays tribute to botanical explorers, both past and present. These are the people who found and named the thousands of …
The big WCC event in March is Earth Hour. Diarise 29 March for Earth Hour celebrations at Fisherman’s Village in Hermanus. Entertainment will include an all-day market turning into a unique “Market by Moonlight”. Buskers, singers, dancers and other artists will perform during the day. The headline concert will start at 7 pm, culminating in the ‘earth hour’ highlight between …
Whale Coast Conservation is bringing a whale of a festival to Fisherman’s Village in Hermanus in celebration of Earth Hour. It will be a day-long festival of education and entertainment that will lead visitors on a journey through education and trade into “Moonlight Avenue”, and a unique “Market by Moonlight”. The highlight of the whole event will be the hour …
We all know how important it is to turn off the tap while we are brushing our teeth and that the average shower uses much less water than the bath.
WCC is delighted to be the first in South Africa to secure the rights for screening the film “Trashed” in which actor Jeremy Irons takes us on a journey around the world, showing us how we are ‘drowning in trash’. And what do we do with all this rubbish? “We buy it, we bury it, we burn it and then …
LIVING SUSTAINABLY WITH WHALE COAST CONSERVATION With the population and unemployment rising rapidly and social services already strained, it is time for all of us in the Overstrand to look to our future. We must ask ourselves two fundamental questions: – What natural resources does the Overstrand offer to help us to provide a better life for all? – More …
Researchers at RTI International have developed a new solar technology that could make solar energy more affordable, and thus speed-up its market adoption. The RTI solar cells are formed from solutions of semiconductor particles, known as colloidal quantum dots, and can have a power conversion efficiency that is competitive to traditional cells at a fraction of the cost. Solar energy …
An unprecedented rise in the demand for food, rapid urbanization and climate change are significantly threatening global water supplies, according to a United Nations report released today, which stresses that a radical new approach to managing this essential resource is needed to be able to sustain future consumption levels. The UN World Water Development Report, which will be launched at …