To adapt the popular misquotation of Ralph Waldo Emerson – he didn’t actually say the world would beat a path to the door of the inventor of the better mousetrap, but it’s such an optimistic message to entrepreneurs so why waste it? – will the green energy industry soon be looking up the route to… Continue reading
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Body builds its solar energy future – just in time
I’m writing this on a grey last Friday in July morning, but I have some defiantly sunny news to impart. The Body Shop has just completed, in 9 weeks, Britain’s largest self-funded (paid for by the company itself) rooftop solar energy system at its head office at Littlehampton in Sussex. 3,840 solar panels covering an… Continue reading →
Hand picked solution to a sustainable scallop future
I’ve just been looking at a very tempting recipe for hand-dived scallops with pea purée, beetroot jelly and pancetta foam on the BBC food web site. No, keen reader, I’m not going to branch into a new career in cuisine just yet. But I’m concerned about sustainable fishing, and those two words “hand-dived” seem to… Continue reading →
Are these the cars for Peak Oil?
Another stark warning this week that we may have reached, or will shortly reach, Peak Oil. Click here. Simply put, this is the moment when the world produces as much oil as it can, because there will never be as much again. From now on, or so the experts say, less and less will flow… Continue reading →
Wheel spinning start to Lakes' green transport revolution
Occasional cyclists approach the Lake District with caution. As well as all that water, aren’t there hills? It is time for some incline-busting technology to take the hard work out of that up and down landscape. Electric bikes are not new, but they do seem to have passed the stage of a faltering advance on… Continue reading →
Council empties the bins, and saves the barn owl
[/caption] “Think global, act local” has been out of fashion as a slogan for some years. Too parochial, perhaps. After all, how is a parish council to solve climate change? But sorting the world’s environmental woes through a myriad of local initiatives may not seem such a bad idea after all, as world leaders… Continue reading →