The sun shines on a new Britain, powered by clean renewable energy Image caption: The sun shines on a new Britain, powered by clean renewable energy This morning, the Chancellor George Osborne gave his Autumn Statement. People on Twitter say he’s launched a dash for gas that would wreck our climate targets and make us the Dirty Man of Europe all over again. But that can’t be right, because my boss, John Sauven, got hold of an advanced copy of the speech. It’s meant to be confidential, but I nicked it of off his desk and thought I’d share it with you all.Mr Speaker, let me start by saying this is a statement for green growth, for investment, for UK…
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Happy Anniversary
EEEK, I just realized, I missed our 5 year anniversary, living off grid! This time of the year is always busy busy busy for me and yesterday just flat out got away from me. So I’ll write about it today, So, 5 years ago, December 22, 2007, we arrived at our property at about 3:30 in the morning, it was blowing a gale, it was about 14 degrees F, we had been driving for about 12 hours and we were exhausted. The reason it was so late, we had planned on getting an earlier start in the day, we were packed and ready to go, we were taking a final walkthru of the house to make sure we had everything we were going …