People here tended to support clean energy projects even before the nuclear disaster, but now there is "more interest in natural energy," said Moriaki Yoshikawa, the head of an environmental NGO, Eco Plan Fukui, which has helped build five solar plants in a region of Japan that hosts four nuclear plants.
Having earned a reputation as a master of low-key, observational "anti-drama" (the plot of Wendy and Lucy can be encapsulated in a single sentence), Kelly Reichardt kicks things up a gear with this initially gripping thriller about three mismatched eco-warriors planning to blow up a hydroelectric dam.
Eco-sustainable planning integrated with multifaceted research and policy dimensions (e.g. social, economic, cultural and political issues) characterizing Mediterranean peri-urban areas is a relevant approach to urban fringe sustainability.
His crusade is brought to life in vivid detail in a new documentary by Finnish film-maker Anna-Karin Grönroos, showing at the ICA next week, which pitches his sky-high ambitions against an eco-plan of a very different kind.
In addition, several key points of concern in the planning process are extracted and discussed: overall infrastructure planning; co-operation between city planning and other special low carbon eco-planning; investment, financing and profitable operation; planning management mechanisms; and the management of the construction of the energy system to coincide with the project schedule.
But once the dam goes up–as is happening right now in Laos, Turkey and Belize the costly eco-plans are conveniently forgotten.
So what is the latest eco-plan at Hilton? Living Green Roofs.
A Pembrokeshire couple who built a 'hobbit-style' eco home without planning consent have lost a demolition appeal.
East Coker, the Somerset village that in 1939 inspired the second of TS Eliot's Four Quartets and in which his ashes are buried, now risks being surrounded by the 3,700 new homes of an "eco-town" planned by the district council.
The plan of the two cities had also integrated strong business interests into the system, aiming to make 'zero carbon zero waste' a kind of catch-phrase or a fashion statement that would enhance the value of the real estate the two eco-cities were planning to offer.
But come Sunday, it was time for VICE snapper Henry Langston and I to put on our serious faces because a bunch of eco-warriors were planning to tear up a field of GM crops, which had been planted there so that a bunch of scientists could "science".
