Greening SA Cities, Digital Text Books in California & More on SA's Price of Electricity

On Friday the 19th June 2009, FLOE attended a Discussion Forum called "Green Energy for SA Cities" hosted by the City of Cape Town and the Centre for Renewable and Sustainable Energy Studies (Stellenbosch University). The discussion focused on what the Nelson Mandela Bay Municipality is doing in terms of greening its energy and also on what the City of Cape Town is doing in this regard. We will elaborate on this shortly, but in the interim, have a look at this Simply Green article about what California is doing to green itself. This article also takes a look at digital textbooks replacing paper textbooks at schools and how all factors should be considered when going this route. In the meanwhile, back in South Africa, an economist puts to question the real price of electricity in SA and has some strong words for Eskom, in this Fin24 article. On that same subject, we are expecting there to be an announcement this week about whether NERSA will approve Eskom's price hike application.