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can a green man sing the blues
Thursday 26th April 2007 10:09 AM
Tonight I'm going to the Adelphi Hotel in Harrogate to perform my 'Climate blues song' at a microgeneration conference. (microgeneration = domestic solar panels/windmills etc). The first time I became aware of the benefits of microgeneration was twenty years ago, in the middle of a muddy field somewhere in Wales at a hippy festival (for yeah, I am an old hippy… I once went out east ….in search of Norwich). I was watching a cabaret that was illuminated and amplified by a generator connected to six fixed bicycles. The bicycles were being pedalled by six hippies fuelled by herbal tea and hemp biomass. Brilliant!
And now we're having a conference on it… we're not trying to cause a big sensation, we're just talking 'bout microgeneration,.... baby… why don't you all f-f-fit more solar panels etc.
Having lived for most of the last five years in various yurts, boats and caravans, I'm quite familiar with the concept of microgeneration. Last year I was living on a boat on the River Ouse in York. As a hippy, this can be quite a dangerous thing to do, because if you go with the flow, you could end up in Selby or Goole.
I had a couple of solar panels on the boat, which ran some lights and a stereo system. I also had a lunar panel, which collected enough moonlight every month to make one wish. (not enough to give back to a grid, which probably doesn't exist anyway, although there might be one in Totnes)
It's heartening to see this conference taking place in the North of England as it seems that the seeds of new-age thought usually find deeper soil in the South-West of England. As a northerner, I can understand this. During my time in Totnes I learnt to access my inner child, but unfortunately it was while I was in the supermarket, and I had to slap it on the back of the legs for being stupid.
I've always believed in the saying 'think globally, act locally' but I think it's also important to 'think cosmically, act stupidly'…
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Posted by shrink packaging machine , on Saturday 8th December 2007, 7:14 PM
I know someone who has a bird table that has a solar powered light in it. Am I on the right planet?
Posted by Les Miserable , on Monday 30th April 2007, 8:04 PM
Typical hippy - only getting one wish a month from a lunar panel?
If you weren't a veggie you could have a roast chicken dinner every sunday and use the wishbone - they're just as good. Hey presto: one wish per week (and protein for 3 or 4 days
Posted by Steve , on Thursday 26th April 2007, 9:08 PM
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