‘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 of time for this proverb; I think it wonderfully captures the necessity for the duty […]

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 my bills would be higher and during the summer months these would come down a […]

What are electric boilers? Electric boilers are a method of heating hot water for your heating system using only electricity. A typical boiler uses gas to heat the water, whilst an electric boiler can be used in off-grid areas, or where a gas supply is either not wanted or not possible. How do electric boilers […]

[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.] Range Anxiety – Major Problem With Electric Cars – Extended Range Electric Vehicles (E-REV) vehicles could be set to do away with Electric Car ‘Range Anxiety’. One […]

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 modern conveniences that you take for granted would simply disappear. Everything that makes life so […]

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 UK expected to follow sharpish. So what is it? And should the Brits be quite […]