| The British Isles are beautiful. Even with the threat of | | | | Planning authorities also have a lot to answer for. |
| global warming we can have every hope of keeping | | | | They should be encouraging the building of |
| it that way. | | | | eco-friendly houses. Unfortunately most of them are |
| In a world where fearful climatic conditions, most of | | | | terrified of anything which looks even vaguely |
| which were induced by mankind's own irresponsible | | | | different from all the others in the neighbourhood. |
| behaviour, are having a devastating effect on the | | | | We don't want ranks of starter homes built. In every |
| living conditions of millions of people, we live in a | | | | generation some of the inexpensive housing of the |
| green and pleasant land. | | | | present has ended up as the slums of the future. |
| We must make every effort to keep it that way. | | | | Back to back terraced housing with small yards, |
| Go Green Ecology will look at photovoltaic methods | | | | tenement blocks, etc were all acclaimed as the |
| of producing electricity, solar water heating, solar | | | | inexpensive answer to the housing problems. |
| heated buildings, insulation, new building designs that | | | | Attractive, inexpensive eco-friendly houses could be |
| bring the outside inside and uses heat exchangers to | | | | built quite quickly. They would enhance the |
| control heating and air conditioning. | | | | countryside, not destroy it. |
| Are there ways of producing wind and wave power | | | | And while we are saving our part of the planet we |
| to generate electricity without hideously disfiguring | | | | must look to preserving those parts of the rest of |
| the countryside. | | | | the world that are in danger from the depredations |
| If we can make battery storage more efficient | | | | of mankind. The rainforests, the animal habitats that |
| every household could generate enough electricity to | | | | are disappearing and we must persuade all those in |
| cover most if not all of its needs and many would be | | | | authority that violence solves nothing. I f all the |
| able to sell the surplus to Power Companies for | | | | money wasted on killing other humans and |
| redistribution. It would be a change to see them | | | | manufacturing ever more lethal ways of doing this - if |
| competing to buy from us instead of charging us as | | | | that money was spent on housing and feeding the |
| much as they can get away with. | | | | millions who are living in conditions that we wouldn't |
| Individuals and a few companies all over the world | | | | keep animals in poverty and famine would be a thing |
| are putting into practice all of these ideas on a fairly | | | | of the past. |
| small scale. The trouble is that big business only pays | | | | Everything has to start small - so if each of us does |
| lip service to Go Green strategies. Their financial | | | | our bit to save our little bit of this green and pleasant |
| backers hold them back. | | | | land perhaps the idea will catch on and spread. |