The guy who’s the co-founder of the Glastonbury Festival, Sir Michael Eavis, is a smart and switched-on guy and also a farmer – he uses some of his farm to stage the festival. He’s into sustainability and finding uses for the tons of cow manure …
It’s been known for some time that wind farms kill birds. Various ways to protect birds from wind farms have been devised one of which is to paint one aerofoil black (see below) which you can read about by clicking on this link. But the …
Sir David Attenborough says on his website that, “All our environmental problems become easier to solve with fewer people, and harder – and ultimately impossible – to solve with ever more people.” He isn’t the only one who thinks that. But Melanie Phillips writing in …
NEWS AND COMMENT: This is a very disturbing story. It concerns the first EU renewable energy directive. It obliges member states to source 20% of energy from renewable sources by 2020 in the interests of sustainability. As I understand it, the legislation classifies biomass energy …
