Talk is Cheap - [website] Published: 19th of Apr 2011 by: (c) Staff Training Reporter
Talk is cheap, but every now and then someone stands up and walks the walk.
This is exactly what SA big four bank Nedbank have done with their new wind powered branch in the Western Cape, where a Kestel e300i 1kW wind turbine has been erected to help supply the building with electricity.
Unlike others who are all talk and no action when it comes to greening our working environments, Nedbank is taking huge strides in the right direction as they decrease their dependency on state-generated electricity.
The new Nedbank branch, situated in the informal settlement of Du Noon in the Western Cape, is the first bank branch in Africa able to boast being partially powered by wind energy.
This means that when if Eskom should experience difficulties with the supply of electricity to the area the building would still be able to carry on functioning as normal, with just a slight dimming of the lights and a momentary lapse in the cool air blowing from the A/C as the wind turbine takes over.
Developments like this, where services are brought into poorer areas and are not solely reliant on energy from Eskom, could go a long way towards enriching the lives of those living in these communities.
I’d love to see more organisations pushing ahead with projects like this one and less of the talk that tends to precede them, after all, it’s what we do that counts and not what we say.
