Personal Blog of Ellen MacArthur

On another topic - which also coincides with dog walking (her name is Floss by the way!) I stumbled upon a pheasant tail feather… It just made me think how lucky I was to grow up in the country, and how lucky I was to have Dad to teach me all sorts of things when I was little. There have been a few times whilst out in the country recently where I’ve seen something and made a connection from my childhood. It’s that funny feeling of just knowing that you know something, but you’re not really sure where it’s come from. Then you re-connect the neurones in your brain and realise that you’ve not thought about that since you were young; It’s been a good 14 years since I roamed the hills with Mac.

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Well, the past few weeks have been pretty busy really. We went to see a sustainable housing development in South London called BedZed, and spent the weekend trying out a few new ideas on the energy front. Bedzed was really interesting; amazingly it was designed 10 years ago as a zero energy development – with solar gain for space heating (using the windows), there are office blocks with windows to the north and houses with windows to the south, there is no other space heating whatsoever, and there are roof gardens and rain water harvesting. There are other developments I am very keen to have a look at – there is so much learning to do!!

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