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Brew Dog – THE Independent Scottish Sustainable Beer Brewery that grows Trees?
Now that's some title, and it doesn't exactly roll off the tongue does it, but its all true. If you love the idea of investing in our future and the future of the planet, by funding the planting of new…
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Never buy a Gas boiler again, get an air or ground source Heat Pump instead.
Heat pumps are quite simple yet exceptionally clever devices, that take warmth from outside sources (Air or Ground) and then use that heat to warm our homes. At the time of writing this article there are Three types of Heat…
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RIVIAN – More than Just another EV Manufacturer?
Electric Vehicles. When you look at RIVIAN's vehicles they don't fit this mould, there's just something different about them, and the closer you look, the more you'll notice. It's in the design & features, that you can see that these…
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Tesla becomes a UK Energy supplier, but how do you get supplied?
Tesla's new energy plan will NOT include a standing charge, and will price electricity at a fixed rate of £0.08/kWh for Tesla vehicle owners or £0.11/kWh for non-owners...
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Electric bicycle sales are booming thanks to COVID, but is there a new problem?
While the COVID-19 pandemic shook the world and the e-bike industry with it, the pandemic also led to a huge surge in electric bicycle sales. Nearly every company that offered electric bicycles soon found themselves with empty shelves and warehouses.…
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The Tesla Semi Truck, Is this the Perfect Luxury Electric Motorhome?
Tesla has at least a couple of Semi prototypes and it’s been duly testing them all over the U.S., ahead of the planned 2021 release. With an impressive range and the ability to
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Humans exploiting and destroying nature on unprecedented scale
Sir David Attenborough said that humanity has entered a new geological age – the anthropocene – where humans dominate the Earth, but said it could be the moment we learn to become stewards of our planet. “Doing so will require…
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Wind & Solar 30 – 50% cheaper than UK Gov thought
Electricity generated from wind and solar is 30-50% cheaper than previously thought, according to newly published UK government figures. The new estimates of the “levelised cost” of electricity, published this week by the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy…
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Pandemic is an opportunity to reconsider what makes a good life
For years, the consumer lifestyles on which economic growth depends have gone largely unquestioned. Although most of us recognise that petrol-guzzling vehicles and fast fashion are environmentally damaging, we rarely question the negative aspects of consumerism for consumers themselves...