Bronwyn Adams
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Star power: How energy efficient is your home?
Ever wondered how energy efficient your home is? Subscribe to our newsletter for the latest sci-tech news updates. CSIRO's new Energy Rating Finder puts the power in your hands. It indicates the energy performance of your home's thermal shellthe walls, floors, roof, windows and insulation. These features influence how much energy it takes to keep your home at a comfortable temperature. It's like an appliance star label, but for your home.
Star power: How energy efficient is your home?
By Bronwyn Adams , Amanda Dunne 9 December 2025 3 min read Key points Check your home's energy-efficiency rating and compare it nationwide. Your rating is the first step towards improving comfort and cutting costs and emissions. Help improve the Energy Rating Finder by sharing your feedback. Ever wondered how energy efficient your home is? CSIRO's new Energy Rating Finder puts the power in your hands.
Why trust is a key ingredient in scientific innovation
Australia is facing some of the biggest challenges in our history: climate change, food security, energy transition, and the prospect of more pandemics and digital disruption with the rise of AI and quantum technologies. Given the urgency of these far-reaching challenges, there has never been a greater need for scientific and technological innovations—but they will only make a positive impact if society trusts and accepts these innovations, and the people and organizations delivering them.
Why trust is a key ingredient in scientific innovation
By Bronwyn Adams 2 June 2025 4 min read Key points Science and technology research has the potential to solve pressing national challenges. Society will only accept these solutions if they trust the organisations developing them. CSIRO has uncovered evidence-backed ways to build public trust in science and technology research.
Overcoming challenges old and new to improve energy efficiency in Australian homes
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Overcoming challenges old and new to improve energy efficiency in Australian homes
As Australia moves towards a target of net zero carbon emissions by 2050, our researchers are working to fill a big missing piece of the puzzle—existing houses and apartments. The Nationwide House Energy Rating Scheme (NatHERS) provides clear standards for the construction of new dwellings. Now, Michael Ambrose and team are testing a method that would allow the scheme to be applied to existing homes built prior to the introduction of NatHERS.
Overcoming challenges old and new to improve energy efficiency in Australian homes
By Amanda Dunne , Bronwyn Adams 13 February 2025 4 min read Key points Two CSIRO studies are providing a more complete picture on how modern Australians use energy at home, opening the potential to shape policy, research and construction as we move towards net zero. Dr Pippa Soccio is investigating how Australians living in apartments use energy in a two-year study that will track indoor environmental conditions and behaviour.
Metsimaholo pledges full support to turn-around initiatives in Vaal Dam area
By Bronwyn Adams, a resident and business person in the Vaal Dam Area: What’s the opposite of a “triple whammy”?
Clear Waters Bring New Hope
The Vaal River, once strangled by invasive plants and pollution, has been restored to its natural glory, flowing freely again and offering new hope for the communities and wildlife that depend on its life-giving waters. Vaal, South Africa (16 October 2024) – Water is the pulse of life, nourishing not only the land but also the people and ecosystems that rely on it.
Hundreds of boats to celebrate Water-Wall-2-Wall this weekend
Boating enthusiasts are flooding down to both the Vaal Dam (Deneysville) and Vaal River (Vereeniging and Vanderbijlpark) in a celebration of Spring, free of the water lettuce menace which swamped the river earlier this year. The festival launches with a Flotilla – where boats meet up at Millionaire’s Bend at 12 midday and all cruise up river together to the Baddrift Bridge – arriving about 2pm.
Hundreds of boats to celebrate Water-Wall-2-Wall this weekend
Boating enthusiasts are flooding down to both the Vaal Dam (Deneysville) and Vaal River (Vereeniging and Vanderbijlpark) in a celebration of Spring, free of the water lettuce menace which swamped the river earlier this year. The festival launches with a Flotilla – where boats meet up at Millionaire’s Bend at 12 midday and all cruise up river together to the Baddrift Bridge – arriving about 2pm.
Deneysville groet 'n staatmaker-sakeman
Deur Bronwyn Adams ‘n Voormalige burgemeester van Deneysville, mnr. Matthys (Thys) Johannes Campher, is Sondag 9 Julie vreedsaam oorlede. Dit was slegs ‘n paar weke voor hy op 1 Augustus 88 sou word. Thys en sy vrou Lottie (84) was ses dekades getroud. Buiten sy vrou word hy ook oorleef deur vyf kinders, tien kleinkinders en twaalf agterkleinkinders. Sy familie, vriende en sakekennise bestempel hom as ‘n bastion van die samelewing, ‘n ware rolmodel en in wese ‘n ware “gentleman”.
Eulogy: A heartfelt farewell to 'Big Chief Sitting Bull'
By Bronwyn Adams Former Mayor of Deneysville, Matthys Johannes Campher, born August 1st 1935, passed away peacefully on Sunday 9 July, a few weeks short of his 88th birthday. Husband to Charlotte Jacoba (Lottie) Campher (84) for six decades; Thys (as he was affectionately named), was father of five children; ten grandchildren and twelve great-grandchildren.
Deneysville - doing it for themselves!
Deneysville’s business sector will not be deterred by the suspension last week of its Municipal Manager and four Directors, following allegations by the EFF and DA of irregularities in the appointment of security services, according to Deneysville Tourism Business Association (DTBA).
Deneysville has its day at Indaba 2023
At the heart of the Lion Route lies Deneysville, the largest village at the Vaal Dam, which represents the hub of the Vaal Triangle, servicing key centers in the Free State, Gauteng and Mpumalanga provinces. Deneysville was recently the recipient of Fezile Dabi District Municipality and DESTEA’s grant for the 2023 Town Turn-around program.
Catch a ‘Big one’ at the Vaal Dam, Deneysville, Gauteng’s “Land-locked Sea”
In this, the first follow-up to our announcement of the launch of the Vaal Dam Lifestyle supplement to service the Vaal Triangle, of which the Vaal Dam is, in fact, the hub and Deneysville is at its centre, we issue a BIG challenge to water destinations! The Vaal Dam is big. Big waters – it’s a fully-fledged water way, 1000 running km in circumference; it has an island, ‘Groot Eiland’ and it’s home to ‘BIG catches’.
Meet Vaaldam Lifestyle in Vaalweekblad!
Announcing Vaal Dam Lifestyle, an independent, monthly supplement focusing specifically on the Vaal Dam catchment area, in addition to Vaalweekblad’s content. Our team, now working hand-in-hand with the original Deneysville News, has expanded its base to bring news and views to a greater readership.
Deneysville dumps depression at Vaal Dam Spring Fayre
It was ‘Black Saturday’ in Deneysville at the Vaal Dam on the weekend of September 11, when hundreds of visitors were treated to some of the best facilities that the village has on offer at the first of many Deneysville Village Fayres. But ‘black’ was not the mood around town as tourism operators pulled out all the stops to beat back the economic blues that have dogged the region during the Covid 19 battle.
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