 "How former miners transformed a pit into an energy village" the headline and reason for this village having received a Silver Jubilee Cup, the Royal Town Planning Institute's highest award.
"An industrial provident society in Nottinghamshire, which has carried out traditional northern doorstep-cleaning on a massive scale, has won the Silver Jubilee Cup, the Royal Town Planning Institute's highest award."
It's really quite fascinating if you ask me and I sincerely hope we see more of these communities cropping up in the future worldwide. "Sherwood Energy Village (SEV) is an Industrial & Provident Society. We are a fully trading company, but our profits are applied back to our Aims and Objectives rather than shareholder benefit."
A former coal mining town community of Ollerton has been made over into wha is now being called Sherwood Energy Village. Offices and homes are built in such a way that they trap and store sunlight. The entire "pit" is running on wind turbines. The energy village also includes rainwater harvesting, and is currently the construction site for some 196 sustainable homes.
I don't want to live in a pit/cult, but you get the idea of how fantastic something like this could be on a larger scale, right?Labels: energy efficiency, solar energy, wind energy |
