“When we look at food growing and allotments, can we encourage local authorities to create more allotment spaces? The work through Keep Wales Tidy and Tidy Towns has created the equivalent of 1000 new allotments.” But it’s not all about encouraging …
Organic Wales Features
New Assembly Government ‘must show leadership’ on renewable energy
… when identifying opportunities for local wind farm schemes, the organisation says. RenewableUK Cymru is also calling for a detailed offshore wind delivery plan to ensure that the Welsh economy fully benefits from the growth in this technology. …
Beauty spot under threat from ‘discredited’ turbines
A WELSH beauty spot is under threat from a vast wind farm development, the like of which has been discredited in other parts of Europe, opponents have said. Campaigners protesting against the project on …
Welsh are going green as fuel bills rise 15%
Green energy expert Andrew Boroughs, who runs Organic Energy in Welshpool, says with the average annual gas and electricity bill estimated to reach £1300 in 2011, consumers are looking to biomass boilers and solar thermal systems to heat their homes.
Greens in call for Ieuan and Carwyn to ditch support for nuclear power
“We hope that the current reassessment of nuclear power will mean that the next Welsh Assembly Government will be unanimous in its opposition to new nuclear build at Wylfa.” The letter also said that the decision not to proceed with a Severn Barrage …
Newbridge hill farm to become solar park despite objections
A WELSH hill farm looks set to become a solar park pumping out “green” electricity. Newbridge farmer Tom Griffiths originally asked Caerphilly council planners for permission for a total of 2232 solar panels to cover …
Protesters out in force at pylons plan
CPRW director Peter Ogden said: “We warned everyone more than five years ago that this would happen, when the Assembly Government cherry-picked massive areas of Mid Wales uplands and proposed they were ripe for wind farm development. …
Welsh Assembly Government websites – when ‘managing with less’ costs more
“It is anticipated that the redevelopment project will cost in the region of £75,000, considerably less than using other private sector contractors”
Wales’ Recycling Rate Reaches 45 Percent
We need to continue developing the sort of services – such as weekly food waste collections – that will give us the best chance of reaching this ambition….
Edible Mushroom Forays – Rhayader, Mid Wales
It’s a cliché to start with the phrase ‘owing to popular demand’ but in this case it is actually true. For years I’ve held out against catering for local would-be mushroomers for the very good reason that I don’t want competition. As time has progressed, I have realised my ‘special’ patches are actually not so special. There are mushrooms everywhere, so why be possessive?
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