English Village Set An Example By Quietly Cleaning Up Its Own Patch
by The Daily Eye Team October 6 2016, 5:20 pm Estimated Reading Time: 0 mins, 29 secsClimate change is one of the defining challenges of the 21st century. But a small village of England, Ashton Hayes teaches the lesson to the rest of country by becoming Britain’s first carbon-neutral village.”
Frustrated by the lack of strong environmental action by political leaders, 10 years ago, residents of the village decide to take matters into their own hands. Hundreds of residents have banded together to cut greenhouse emissions — they use clotheslines instead of dryers, take fewer flights, install solar panels and glaze windows to better insulate their homes.