The Welsh are so different from the English, aren’t they? They like rugby, unlike the English. Apart from the passionate 90,000 who regularly pack Twickenham, and the grounds at Northampton and Leicester and Bath and Gloucester and one or two other places. The two nations definitely diverge on football, don’t they? No interest in the… Continue reading
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Can solar lamps displace Kerosene in Africa by 2020?
One big joint social and environmental problem in the world can be solved relatively easily. I don’t mean solved in the sense of: “Oh, here is a really good idea that might just come off a few years from now if enough governments and people support it, and we are prepared to spend millions.” It’s… Continue reading →
Is this U.K.’s greenest housing estate? The Passivhaus rural idyll
Is this the U.K.’s greenest housing estate, this vision of snug, low energy Passivhaus life in the country? What is believed to be the largest Passivhaus development to date has been given the go-ahead. Councillors on Herefordshire Council voted in favour of the estate of 150 houses, on a 20-acre site in the village of Kingstone… Continue reading →
Swansea Bay Tidal Lagoon moves on – Severn Barrage criticised
On the day when serious doubts are raised about the economic and environmental case behind a plan to build a £25bn tidal barrage spanning the Severn Estuary, another, much smaller, scheme not many miles away on the same body of water n South Wales moved to a significant next stage. A community share offer was… Continue reading →
Light up, shine on – is this the LED’s breakthrough moment
The Hay Festival is an appropriate place for a lightbulb moment. I was at a talk where green guru Julia Hailes was talking about converting her old farmhouse and making it as environmentally efficient and green as possible. I wrote down lots of things (not very efficiently, on my smartphone) but one slide caught my… Continue reading →
The future is smart – taking control of the energy we use
Do you know how much electricity you used watching TV last night, and how much it cost you? And what was your bill for mowing the lawn, and boiling the water for three cups of coffee and two pots of tea? Any clue how much your freezer costs, particularly when you haven’t defrosted it lately?… Continue reading →