How to Laugh Off Load Shedding

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 …

And the Show Went On

Whale Coast Conservation hosted the first of its monthly talks for 2015 at the Green House last night. There was some concern from members of the audience that the load shedding in the area would prevent speaker Sean Privett from showing his beautiful fynbos images. Of course they need not have worried. WCC is completely independent of Eskom power trough …

Let’s Explore Energy

Stripes the Eco-Cat is cramming up on the subject of energy in the hope that he will be allowed to go to Whale Coast Conservation’s Energy Expo at the Hermanus Flower Festival. He asked Bungee Bear to explain how he uses bungee-jumping to show the children the difference between potential and kinetic energy. Bungee Bear will be at the Expo …

WCC Exploring Energy

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 …

How Green Is Our House?

Whale Coast Conservation is not just talking green, we have gone green. Our new home on the R43, between Hawston and Vermont, called the Green House, is going green with sustainable off-grid technology.  We have 18 photovoltaic panels that produce most of our electricity, especially on sunny days. In addition there are 3 horizontal axis wind turbines on the roof and …

Home Sweet Lab

Computerized House to Generate as Much Energy as It Uses In a ribbon-cutting ceremony today, the U.S. Commerce Department’s National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) unveiled a new laboratory designed to demonstrate that a typical-looking suburban home for a family of four can generate as much energy as it uses in a year. Following an initial year-long experiment, the …

Energy Expo at Hermanus High

Monday 23 July 2012 14h00 – 18h00                             The Energy Expo has landed. Whale Coast Conservation’s travelling sustainable energy expo, funded by a grant from the National Lottery Distribution Trust Fund, has reached Hermanus. This is the slickest, most entertaining, highly educational show in town. First it …

Stanford Sustainable Energy Road Show

On Wednesday 6 June Whale Coast Conservation took its Sustainable Energy Road Show to Stanford. The Community Hall was a great venue, which included four helpful local builders who volunteered the ‘muscle’ to unload the heavy equipment in the morning and to reload it at the end of the day. The event kicked off with 300 foundation phase learners from …

Gansbaai Energy Road Show

30 MAY 2012 Bravo Gansbaai! What a pleasure it was to visit such a vibrant community. Whale Coast Conservation brought its sustainable energy roadshow – funded by Lotto – to Gansbaai on Wednesday 30 May.  The expo was enthusiastically hosted by Laerskool Gansbaai in their school hall, and that enthusiasm was the keynote for the entire day. Each class visited …