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Environmental points of interest: Scotland/north England?
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Posted by joel_bc (My Page) on Tue, Jun 6, 06 at 1:26
| In a bit less than two months, I'll be flying in to Edinburgh with a couple weeks to spend in Scotland, then down to London. I'm just wondering if people here can suggest some environmental aspects of interest. I'll be in the Inverness and northern coast areas mainly, later expect to travel by train down to London.
One aspect of my interest at this point is the development of wind farms on the coast. I'm also curious to know how small farm land ownership, and the regional farming economy, is holding up in Scotland and north England. But as well I'd be open to and interested in many other things. What can you suggest?
Thanks for any tips and suggestions...
Joel |
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RE: Environmental points of interest: Scotland/north England?
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| Findhorn Ecovillage would be a good stop. Have a nice trip. |
Here is a link that might be useful: findhorn
RE: Environmental points of interest: Scotland/north England?
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| Althea, I'd thought about that place. I wonder, though... has Scotland or northern England got any "dead" rivers or lakes that have been brought back to life? (That sort of thing...) Joel |
RE: Environmental points of interest: Scotland/north England?
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| Thrill seeker! I don't know. If I get a chance I'll check a couple of sites that may have that sort of info & post if I find anything. |
RE: Environmental points of interest: Scotland/north England?
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| I read recently that in Scotland 99% of the original forest cover has been logged off (possibly some of it burned in forest fires? don't know), but also that tree plantations have been established to try to mitigate this unenviable situation. I suppose there might be some interesting mixed-species reforestation attempts... J. |
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| Maybe this site about restoration the Caledonian Forest would give you some leads, or a visit to the Forest could be part of your travels. |
Here is a link that might be useful: Caledonian Forest
RE: Environmental points of interest: Scotland/north England?
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| Thanks, Althea... the last link & idea are very good. Good to know (and seems natural, now in the early 21st century) that people are trying to re-establish forest cover in an aware, educated "First World" country that has lost all but 1% of its natural forest cover. I'll definitely be checking this out, when there. Joel |
RE: Environmental points of interest: Scotland/north England?
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| Althea, I wanted to say thanks. I did get to Scotland (I've been back for a while now) and later went by train from Inverness down to London. While in Scotland (I was all over the rural areas and towns and villages), I visited some of the Caledonian Forest and met with the people who are doing native-tree reforestation (the Trees for Life people). Its good work and they're good people. The situation with fisheries depletion and its impact on the coastal villages of northern Scotland was very sad. Encountering that was another side of the trip. Of course, rugged Scotland is quite beautiful, as is the mild English countryside in its own way. There sure are a lot of sizable nuclear power plants between Newcastle and London! But there's a lot of wind power development going on in the UK, and there is much talk about utilization of tidal power. Joel |
RE: Environmental points of interest: Scotland/north England?
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| Hi Joel, How admirable to spend travel time with people who are doing such important work, and learning about other situations regarding environmental problems. Glad you had what sounds like a fulfilling trip. Are you planning to keep in touch with anyone you met? Whatever became of coals in Newcastle? |
RE: Environmental points of interest: Scotland/north England?
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| Althea: It's possible that some of the Trees for Life people will look me up over here (they already had some contacts inwestern Canada, I learned). Don't know about the Newcastle coal industry; I was traveling with my wife, and we were involved in our own discussion, hence I didn't ask any of our fellow train passengers about Newcastle as we went through. The Londoners much prefer the cleaner air since coal was mostly abandoned... whether many of them think much about possible radioactive leaks or about nuclear byproducts falling into the wrong hands (bombs, terrorist exploitation, etc) is hard for me to know. Joel |
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