Green Blogging

An interesting article in the Guardian on 1 January shows how business is gearing up to develop green technology.  The article describes a ‘groundbreaking partnership’ between 25 businesses  including GE (the world’s biggest company, according to Forbes). HSBC, French energy firm EDF, Thames Water, Marks & Spencer and waste management… Continue reading

As you may or may not be aware, the leader of the Greens in Norwich, Adrian Ramsay, is standing for Parliament in the Norwich South constituency.  The Greens believe that they can defeat Charles Clarke (the present MP) – take a look at this video to see why (its pretty good..):

If you support the Greens, please promote this video and pass the link on. You can… Continue reading

As reported in the Fakenham Times, Wells and the North Norfolk area in general are due a big financial boost from the Sheringham Shoal Offshore Wind farm which is setting up a community fund which will give £100,000 a year to eco-friendly community schemes. Over the expected 50 year life of the project (due to… Continue reading

I HATE writing Christmas cards.  As I spend most of my time typing nowadays, my hands have lost the ability to write easily for any length of time, and writing lots of cards really makes them ache.  Also there is all the bother of buying the cards and the stamps, and remembering to post them.  Plus, of course, thousands… 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