House & Garden – the Little Green blog

Now It’s The Back Garden

27th February 201727th February 2017 by Chris

Much of the front garden is completed.
There are still some great projects for later this year but now the main … …read more…

In Goes the Decking

17th May 201625th April 2016 by Chris

From this last December, 2015 … … …read more…

Promised Jan a Rose Garden

17th May 201619th April 2016 by Jan Oliff

April 2016

We now see the garden starting to mature.

The roses are well settled in and Jan weaves her creativity, re-organises some plants and adds others.

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Another Step Along the Garden Way

2nd December 201526th November 2015 by Chris

OK, so I have almost completed the new fence and gateway. It has to be painted but the
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Work moves to the back garden

25th April 20161st November 2015 by Chris

Now that the front garden is mostly completed it is time to give … …read more…

A Plants Hunter’s Delight

25th April 20161st August 2015 by Chris

We have been hunting for a good place to buy plants locally. We’ve kept … …read more…

Strawberry Time

25th April 201627th June 2015 by Chris

Yesterday we harvested our first crop of strawberries for tea – and still some … …read more…

Ecology : Electric Vehicles : Political notes and more

October 2015

Oslo, Norway’s capital, like most of the Scandinavian country’s cities and towns, boasts bus-lane access for electric vehicles (EVs), recharging stations aplenty, privileged parking, and toll-free travel for electric cars. The initiative began in the 1990s as an effort to cut pollution, congestion, and noise in urban centres; now its primary rationale is combating climate change. Today, Norway has the highest per capita number of all-electric [battery only] cars in the world: more than 100,000 in a country of 5.2 million people. Last year, EVs constituted nearly 40% of the nation’s newly registered passenger cars. Norway is the clear electric vehicle pacesetter in Europe, which now has about 500,000 electric vehicles.

And the Norwegian experiment shows every sign of accelerating. Earlier this year, Norway opened the world’s largest fast-charging station, which can charge up to 28 vehicles in about half an hour.

Hackney Council has installed the first publicly accessible on-street rapid charging posts for electrical vehicles in London, so increasing the charging options of EV users in the capital.
The three units, which are supplied by APT Technologies a leading innovator in EV charging solutions, are the very latest Tri-Rapid Chargers and are located in Shoreditch, Dalston and Hackney Central.

China leads the world in EV usage, with about 600,000 all-electric vehicles on its roads and an ambitious plan to deploy 5m EVs by 2020.

Wind power generates 140% of Denmark's electricity demand http://bit.ly/1IOI0jV
Unusually high winds allowed Denmark to meet all of its electricity needs – with plenty to spare for Germany, Norway and Sweden too

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