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Category: Sustainability

The future can be bright

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Harrogate gets its first electric car charge stations

24 Dec 20172 Jan 2018
I am very proud to say that my home town of Harrogate has installed the first 3 charge stations for electric vehicles (EV). This is a mayor step in the…
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Replacing our vehicles to pure electric takes time

14 Dec 201714 Dec 2017
At the moment I am in the process of making sure Julia and I are both in sustainable transport. It has been proving more difficult than it first seemed. The…
Beekeeping and Veg…

Spending time building a fence

17 Sep 201718 Sep 2017
Yes, it has been an interesting few months doing this. I decided to build a post and rail fence using heritage plans. Really I should have guessed when Grantley Sawmills,…
Sustainability

Formula e is the future

2 Apr 20172 Apr 2017
I will write a more detailed post when I have more time but this is just to say the yesterday's Formula e race in Mexico was great. It is proof…
Sustainability

Testing the BMW i3 REx 94AH EV

13 Mar 20179 Feb 2020
The local Harrogate Stratstone BMW dealer kindly let me test drive the current incarnation of the i3 with its 600cc range extender motor. I used it for a weekend and…
Sustainability

Free Saturday electric a boon

4 Mar 20176 Mar 2017
Every Saturday for just under 2 years is free electric with British Gas. Now let me clarify, if it was the choice of free electric or sustainable living then sustained…
Sustainability

Electric cars and a step closer to sustainability

19 Feb 20171 Mar 2017
  Quite a number of different experiences have occurred since the last time I wrote a blog post. The main, and to me most important, was transferring over to a…

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