SAFCEI News Articles - news
News Articles | Prayers and Sermons | Events | Newsletters | Photographs
A Pastoral Letter to All South Africans
My fellow South Africans,
The message of Easter – a message of hope and new life after darkness and death – could barely be more relevant to the political life of South Africa than it is today. At a time of continuing debate about ‘hate speech’, it is a compass for us all, whatever our beliefs or backgrounds, in considering how best to relate our past to our future, and especially so following the murder of Eugene Terre’Blanche.
South Africa is an amazing country of wonderful possibilities. To realise them requires answering the question: what future do we choose for ourselves? Will we persevere in pursuing fulfilment of the justice, the equality, the opportunity, the reconciliation, for which so many struggled for so long?
08 Apr 2010
Click here to read on...
SAFCEI's position on World Bank Loan to South Africa for the Medupi coal-fired power station.
We in SAFCEI and many civil society organisations in South Africa are deeply concerned that in spite of the growing climate crisis, our Government in South Africa is continuing to follow the fossil fuel and nuclear route for energy generation.
01 Apr 2010
Click here to read on...
Meat that’s Good for you & Good for the planet.
01 Apr 2010
Click here to read on...
A Path to Sustainable Energy by 2030
A Path to Sustainable Energy by 2030
“This article in Scientific American shows that sustainable energy policy is possible”, Bishop Geoff Davies
Wind, water and solar technologies can provide 100 percent of the world's energy, eliminating all fossil fuels. HERE'S HOW
In December leaders from around the world will meet in Copenhagen to try to agree on cutting back greenhouse gas emissions for decades to come. The most effective step to implement that goal would be a massive shift away from fossil fuels to clean, renewable energy sources. If leaders can have confidence that such a transformation is possible, they might commit to an historic agreement. We think they can.
A year ago former vice president Al Gore threw down a gauntlet: to repower America with 100 percent carbon-free electricity within 10 years. As the two of us started to evaluate the feasibility of such a change, we took on an even larger challenge: to determine how 100 percent of the world's energy, for all purposes, could be supplied by
wind, water and solar resources, by as early as 2030. Our plan is presented here.
22 Feb 2010
Click here to read on...
Is There an Ecological Unconscious? By Daniel B. Smith
About eight years ago, Glenn Albrecht began receiving frantic calls from residents of the Upper Hunter Valley, a 6,000-square-mile region in southeastern Australia. For generations the Upper Hunter was known as the “Tuscany of the South” — an oasis of alfalfa fields, dairy farms and lush English-style shires on a notoriously hot, parched continent. “The calls were like desperate pleas,” Albrecht, a philosopher and professor of sustainability at Murdoch University in Perth, recalled in June. “They said: ‘Can you help us? We’ve tried everyone else. Is there anything you can do about this?’ ”
Residents were distraught over the spread of coal mining in the Upper Hunter. Coal was discovered in eastern Australia more than 200 years ago, but only in the last two decades did the industry begin its exponential rise. Today, more than 100 million tons of black coal are extracted from the valley each year, primarily by open-pit mining, which uses chemical explosives to blast away soil, sediment and rock. The blasts occur several times a day, sending plumes of gray dust over ridges to settle thickly onto roofs, crops and the hides of livestock. Klieg lights provide a constant illumination. Trucks, draglines and idling coal trains emit a constant low-frequency rumble. Rivers and streams have been polluted.
19 Feb 2010
Click here to read on...
