Last weekend I went to a family wedding at the other end of the country in Durham. I tried to convince my parents that we should go on the train instead of driving but they weren't having any of it. So we drove up there, the traffic was absolutely dreadful and it took 9 HOURS. Still, the weekend was pretty good and I even managed to sneak away to watch some of Live Earth in the evening. I decided to take the train back home, however, and this just shows how great trains are...
5 & 1/2 hours. Thats all it took to get from Durham to Chichester. Woohoo. It left me with time in the evening to plant out some more cabbages! (Which the slugs promptly decimated. I'm going to try putting broken eggshells down, I've heard that keeps them away. Dad said I should use slug pellets and I told him forcibly that we are an organic establishment and will not be using anything of the sort.)
Anyway on my journey I thought it might be "fun" to see how many indications that the UK is going green I could spot. Going from one end of the country to another (with 3 changes, hence 4 trains) I spotted only one wind farm, and 3 houses with solar panels on. (2 of these houses had the hot water solar panels, and 1 had the photovoltaic electricity-generating solar panels). Come on, Britain! You can do better than that! Next time I go from Durham to Chichester I want to see 3 wind farms and 10 houses with solar panels!
Go to http://www.tvenergy.org/sources-solar.htm for information on solar panels and make your house one of the 10.
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Good post.
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