It would be wrong to overwork the metaphor of the Church of England turning to that most pagan of symbols, the sun, rather than prayer, for salvation. It’s a neat solution nevertheless, solving the perennial problem of paying to heat a large, cavernous and extremely old building with solar power. The successful scheme to… Continue reading
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Rooftop power helps Red Dwarf star zero in on low driving bills
Set aside “range anxiety”, clearly a big concern for many prospective buyers, for the moment, and there is still a big roadblock on the way to a much wider acceptance of electric cars. It’s that drivers are simply shifting the carbon dioxide generated in providing the energy to drive the car from the petrol… Continue reading →
Little Chef takes charge of electric motoring
We remember them well, those worthy but dull roadside stops. They modernised Little Chef menus in recent years, and even dabbled in what passes for haute cuisine. Heston Blumenthal redesigned the fare at the Popham restaurant on the A303 near Basingstoke, with coq au vin and braised ox cheeks. But still the brand didn’t really stand out,… Continue reading →
Seattle building bids to be greenest in world
Not too far in the future we will look back at a certain building which was the first to successfully address, in its vision, construction and operation, one of the imperatives of the 21st-century. It would be so unambiguously planet-friendly that when we see it we will know at once that this is the model,… Continue reading →
Greece embraces solar power – could Turkey follow?
It was easy to describe the weather on our recent break in Turkey. The sun shone powerfully throughout the day, every day, without a break, for two weeks. Friends and family who just endured a particularly grim August in the UK gave me a pained look and quickly change the subject. A first-time visitor to… Continue reading →
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 →