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Greg Condliffe Newbeck Cottage, Flower Lane, Amesbury is no ordinary house! It is jammed full of innovative ideas for reducing its carbon footprint. Architect Greg Condliffe, of Harnham, Salisbury was nominated by South Wiltshire Agenda 21 in this year’s Regen South West Green Energy Awards. Greg was runner-up in the housing category and was the only award winner from Wiltshire. Regen SW is the sustainable energy agency for South West England, funded by the SW Regional Development Agency. Its mission is to speed up the transition to a low-carbon economy by unlocking sustainable-energy business opportunities, accelerating the uptake of the region’s renewable-energy resources and championing effective energy-demand-reduction initiatives in the region. Read more on Salisbury Architect Scoops Regional Green Energy Award.
Think again! Believe it or not we have had enough sun to turn off our boiler for much of the summer. Read on to find out more about your solar options. Solar Water Heating – Exploding the myths Solar water heating seems to be one of those peculiar things that most people seem to have heard about but few know very much about it, except that they think it costs thousands of pounds, and only works in summer. Having said that there are those who know of someone else who has had it for years and will say that it works very well. It is true that solar water heating has been around for years – it is as we say a ‘mature’ technology, just like bricks and cement are for building.
![]() The future of wind in Wiltshire / Photo: Rachel Ross The group has made good progress since it was started last year by Jack Mason of Trowbridge, attracting local supporters of wind energy from backgrounds ranging from flood defence, archaeology, IT, energy efficiency, aviation technology and education.
![]() Wasting energy / Photo: Simon Banton For the techies reading this, there’s a Linux DNS and mailserver, a music server, a couple of Windows boxes for checking website designs work in Internet Explorer, the list goes on… None of these are of a particularly high specification, being largely salvaged, low-end old machines that aren’t called upon for demanding tasks and don’t need to be blisteringly fast. However, although not everything is always switched on and in use, these machines have been quietly consuming between 60-110W – the same as keeping a traditional lightbulb on day in, day out. Message from Wiltshire Community Wind Energy about their next meeting: The next meeting of the Wiltshire Community Wind Energy Group will be on: Date: Thursday 17 July, 7-9pm Further details at: http://www.wiltshirewind.org.uk/news.htm This will be an important meeting as we aim to build on the one held in May. If you would like details of the May meeting please look at the news section of the website where there are some brief notes and the ‘powerpoint’ presentation. Please come along and bring a friend! There will be a FREE showing of the film ‘A Crude Awakening – the Oil Crash’: We’re running out and we don’t have a plan. Date: Wednesday 11 June 2008 Admission FREE but donations towards costs welcome. Travel Salisbury: 18.53 arrive Tisbury 19.06 Tisbury: 21.52 arrive Salisbury 22.08 A sketch map of Tisbury showing Hinton Hall off Church Road. Wiltshire Community Wind Energy is a voluntary group who believe that appropriately sited wind turbines are part of a solution to climate change. Their first meeting will be on: Tuesday 27 May 2008 at 7pm Download Wiltshire Community Wind Energy Contact info@wiltshirewind.org.uk Other information at http://www.wiltshirewind.org.uk |
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