If less energy is used, credit is built up which can be reclaimed or used to offset higher-than-expected subsequent bills.
The Marwood in The Lanes, for example, is a wonderful hotchpotch of reclaimed bits and pieces with old cupboard doors as table tops and even Apple Mac hard drive towers as stools.
They may be squirting their hormone-raised beefburgers with mayonnaise, but our ways with a bottle – it makes little difference whether it's Buckie-guzzling in the bus stop, or the drip-drip-drip of Costières de Nîmes at the reclaimed rectory table – mean that we're as cancer-prone as the Americans, and thus we've really got to watch it.
The restaurant, in the elegant space on the corner of Hudson Street and Duane Street that held Danube and Secession, is decorated in steel and stone and what might be miles of reclaimed honeyed wood.
The violations he recorded in his report included shrinking lakes and wetlands, as well as reclaimed land upon which parking lots, temples, slums and even a road had been constructed.
Next, choose your encaustic tiles: a big trend right now, and rightly so – they have a reclaimed, been-around-for-centuries feel, and their worn, washed-out character works well on floors and walls.
Speaking at his election office on Canvey Island, a reclaimed piece of the Thames Estuary with a seaside resort past and a significance of sorts as the home of pub rockers Dr Feelgood, he says: "The likes of Boris Johnson, George Osborne and David Cameron... they're into large multinational corporate organisations.
But since unelected party officials still control most villages, it is easy for local governments to seize land and sell it to developers while giving peasants little compensation.Dongtan, as reclaimed land with no permanent population before SIIC took it over, is not tainted with such a history.
The Netherlands is a small, wealthy country with generous social welfare, where wages and benefits have traditionally been settled in national bargains between employers, workers and government, a system named after the very "polders" (reclaimed tracts of land below the water line) which surround the plants in Eemshaven.
There are also worries about contaminated vegetables and seafood.Most of the reclaimed island remains off-limits to the locals.
The plan is that about half the reclaimed land will be agro-industry; the other half will be devoted to labour-intensive farming such as flower-growing.Toshka is more adventurous, acclaimed as an engineering feat on a par with the Aswan dam.
