March 3, 2010

Everybody in UK eco-circles is talking about
George Monbiot this week, which is just the way he likes it.
George Monbiot is an unashamed cheerleader for big power – his column in the
Guardian has previously come out
in favor of large nuclear power stations, and this week he spoke out
against micro-generation. George Monbiot is also in favor of large, centralised wind farms and other forms of renewable energy, and sets himself firmly against micro-generation –which he caricatures as a middle class subsidy.
The occasion for his latest outburst was the introduction of the UK government-backed
Feed-in tariff (FiT), which will reward householders and others who generate renewable energy back into the grid. Ignoring the fact that the FiT was enormously successful in Germany, which has become a European leader in micro-generation, “the only renewables policy that makes sense,” says George, “ is to build big installations where the energy is – which means high ground, estuaries or the open sea – and deliver it by wire to where people live.”
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March 1, 2010

American Olympic snowboarder
Hannah Teter has returned to Vermont — to live in her yurt. "Mom has a huge garden and fruit trees," she told People magazine "and I love it there.
"I helped my parents get solar power this past year, and I'll be running on solar and hopefully wind power with my yurt so I can be completely off the grid."
Meanwhile, Olympic gold medalist skateboarder
Shaun White says he is anxious to return to his 1969 Volkswagen Van.
Hannah Teter, however, is the off-grid flavor of the month.
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