Category Archives: Product Observatory

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Introducing Project 90’s Keep It Bag

Project 90 is now selling our latest product: the Keep it Bag. A slow cooker bag to cook your food in which will help save energy costs. Please contact us to place your order. Continue reading

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Gee wizz, check out Ewizz

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Imagine paying less than 5c per kilometer for your daily commute, never sitting in traffic or struggling to find parking. And I’m not talking about a bicycle… Continue reading

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Pasta a la carbon-ara

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Have you ever found yourself wondering what the most environmentally friendly way to cook pasta might be? Gary has. It may seem like an odd thing to wonder about, but think about it: there are a number of different ways to get a pot of water on the boil in the typical home e.g. the kettle, gas or electric hob, solar cooker… Alongside this, he has also been interested in the difference in carbon impacts of gas and electric stoves, so he bundled these ponderings together, put together a few experiments and his results were very surprising… Continue reading

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The Great Heater Debate

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We’re having a heater debate here at the Project 90 office, as winter slowly approaches. Our office is freezing in winter, and despite dressing warmly (hats, gloves and scarves!) we still have a need for heating. Our office has panel heaters as well as gas heaters and we have been debating which is the most carbon efficient way of heating our office. Does it make sense to use the panel heaters when it means having to leave them on overnight to keep the room warm? I remembered that Gary Fahy wrote an article comparing different types of heating, and have re-posted it here. It makes for interesting reading. Continue reading

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Ethical Investing

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I hope you enjoyed Workers’ Day yesterday. To celebrate this important day, our theme here at Project 90 for May is workers and Africa. For those of us fortunate to have a regular income, its hard to have the discipline to save money every month, but personal sustainability is just as important as sustainability for our planet. Today I look at a new green fund offered by 3 Laws Capital, based here in Cape Town. Continue reading