Green Blogging

After being saddened by seeing several NIMBY type objections to wind farms reported in the press today, I was cheered to read that the residents of North Walsham take a different attitude.

The North Walsham project was set up by Unity Wind Limited, a co-operative, to encourage renewable wind energy production in Norfolk..  Two wind turbines will eventually generate clean energy, the profits from which will largely benefit local… Continue reading

I was intrigued to read on the BBC news site here and here about some new research on storing energy in paper batteries instead of (as now) metal ones.

It seems that although at present the paper batteries are very small and only sufficient to power a light bulb, if they can… Continue reading

A lot of politics is to do with political marches.  As someone who has only recently become involved in politics I have been on very few. Unlike my husband Graeme, who has been on many.

However Saturday 21 November saw my son and I up for the climate change march in Norwich… Continue reading

When considering climate change and the steps we should take to try to prevent it, there are some easy things that can be done, and other more difficult things.

So in a domestic situation you fit low energy light bulbs and stop up the draughts before paying out for photovoltaic cells on the roof or a geothermal heat pump.

You would have thought that businesses would do the… Continue reading

Reading the paper today, it seems that the confusion caused by the UEA climate scientists’ emails revealed by hackers is so serious, it is threatening to derail the climate summit, shortly to take place in Copenhagen.

Some people seem to be taking the emails as proof that climate change warnings are just a lot of rubbish. For example John Delingpole in the Telegraph who is advising people… Continue reading

An interesting article I have just found on the BBC News web-site looks at some research obtained by the BBC’s Politics Show from data experts at Experian.  This breaks down  the UK population into 10 different categories depending on their carbon emissions. Figures are given for all 648 parliamentary constituencies, and the BBC report shows the results in a map form.

However the main point of the article… Continue reading