The silent green revolution
I saw the above graph on Carbon Tracker, and it tells a great story. Despite all the fossil fuel subsidies, erratic Government policies and powerful anti-renewables...
Raising Cash for Solar Aid
Dec 7, 2015
I'm exhausted this morning after doing the grunt work for my sons' yard sale yesterday. Every year the boys raise cash for Solar Aid, but...
Solar subsidies must go… eventually
Aug 31, 2015
Just weeks after promising to "unleash a solar revolution", UK Energy & Climate Change Secretary Amber Rudd has announced the Government is considering a massive 87%...
Is the renewable energy industry getting greedy?
Oct 28, 2011
Twitter and the green press is buzzing with the UK solar industry leaping up and down as they fear the Feed-in Tariff (FiT) is going...
Does Commerce Trump Charity?
Sep 26, 2011
I spent a very pleasant evening on Friday listening to Chris Packham at a Northumberland Wildlife Trust fundraiser (he's vice-president of the Wildlife Trusts). He...
Book Review: The Solar Economy by Hermann Scheer
Jul 13, 2009
German MP and Solar Champion Hermann Scheer wrote this book about 10 years ago and it has been available in English for about 7 years,...
Boss Paints
Jul 2, 2009
As I mentioned on Monday, I'm in Belgium and visited Boss Paints on Tuesday to interview the boss, Toon Bossuyt. Boss has done many clever...