Self Sustaining Communities in Britain
‘Great’ Britain The suspension bridge, penicillin, first intercity railway. What do these things all have in common? Answer – they are all Great British discoveries, with varying degrees of desirable effects. More importantly, these inventions are synonymous with a time…
A Call To Arms
‘Treat the earth well: it was not given to you by your parents, it was loaned to you by your children. We do not inherit the Earth from our ancestors, we borrow it from our children’ I have a lot…
Tying up a few loose ends – Your Electricity Bill & The Electricity Mix
Before I got involved in TheGreenAge, it is fair to say that my electricity bill would arrive on a quarterly basis and I would eventually reluctantly pay it without really ever looking at it. I knew that in the winter…
Why Should 3rd World Countries Give a Hoot About the Environment?
Rio+20 summit is only days away, and hopefully we will see a way forward in the form of a joined-up, global agreement on emissions. However, I was reading about the reluctance of Asian countries to accept the EU’s air-traffic carbon…
Take Home Messages from the Draft Energy Bill 2012
On Tuesday 22nd May, Edward Davey, the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change published the first draft of the Energy Bill that could define the electricity production market place for many years to come. In the following post…
Extended Range Electric Cars (E-REV) – Doing away with range anxiety
[Update: This blog was written in 2012. Since then, electric cars have evolved a lot; most now have ranges of between 150-300 miles. Read about recent models below.] [button_page_link title=”Why buy an electric car?” url=”https://www.thegreenage.co.uk/should-i-buy-an-electric-car/” image=”https://www.thegreenage.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/Screen-Shot-2016-10-04-at-12.41.57-780×350.png” button_text=”Read more”][/button_page_link] Range Anxiety…
Hydrogen Powering Fuel Cells as a Solution for our Future Energy Needs
Why should we talk more about Hydrogen & Fuel Cell Technology? You may have heard of hydrogen powered cars or fuel cell CHP boilers, they are relatively new products, but how exactly do they work? In this blog we put…
Imagine Life without Electricity
Imagine life without electricity Well, first off you wouldn’t be reading this; in fact the internet wouldn’t exist at all. Business systems would fail, emergency services would become futile, there would be limited transport, limited communication, and most of the…
What is fracking and should we be nervous?
What is Fracking? I came across the term Fracking only fairly recently, in someone’s tweet on Twitter. I had no idea what it meant at the time, but have since learnt that the US are lapping it up, with the…
Boris Bikes, politicians and environmental policy
In my youth I remember walking the streets of Amsterdam and being distracted by some peculiar sites. When I was on my way to the Van Gogh museum, honest m’lud, I was almost run over by cyclists. It was a…