a mad dash down to dover

we heard on monday night (21st september) that one of the crew of the explorer (the 32ft yacht that was due to have taken us from lowestoft to ostend) was sick and so they had to pull out.
It was time for plan b! We'd put in an advert in private eye and had a reply from the blue heron, based in dover, so i bought myself a fast touring bike to replace the heavy old mountain bike that had been towing my trailer all the way from wales, and managed to do the trip in four days, sleeping at the side of the road for just two hours on thursday,

International teleconference, University of East Anglia, Norwich

academics emit vast amounts of carbon in flying off to attend international conferences, so we thought we'd show them a better way - using the telephone.
We had clive hamilton, professor of public ethics at the australian national university, fabrina furtado of jubilee south from brazil, along with professor tim lenton, professor neil adger, and dr teresa belton from the university of east anglia, discussing what we could do about climate change

Norwich

I stayed for three nights in my home city of Norwich, where the caravan had organised a number of activities, thanks to Mark, Lesley, Emma and Jenn.
We started off with a performance of 'the carbon chronicles' (an improvised environmental opera) at the united reformed church on saturday 19th september, followed by a zero carbon festival, complete with climate friendly food provided by norwich green party, and another zero carbon concert by seize the day using bicycle powered electricity, where they sung about their campaign for the workers of Vestas on the Isle of Wight, where our only wind turbine factory has just been closed.

swaffham

swaffham is home to the only wind turbine in the world, built in 1999, where the public is allowed up the tower. I went up and appreciated the amazing views over the surrounding countryside, and interviewed stuart weaver, from the ecotech environmental education centre associated with the turbine, about the turbine and the relationship of ecotricity, owners of the turbine, with the local community; far from resenting it, they actually asked for another

titchwell

titchwell is an rspb reserve in north west norfolk which is threatened by rising sea levels caused by climate change. i interviewed interviewed robert coleman about the adaptations they are making to the reserve and also more generally about the impact climate change has on birds

kings lynn

members of transition kings lynn and kings lynn bicycle users group (one of them on a recumbent trike) cycled into kings lynn with me, then held a meeting on how we should cut carbon emissions

transition ely

joined members of transition ely on their stall at ely farmers market