Chapter TwoThe ZEDlife: A call to engage
2.1 Hope House, the first experimental ‘ZED’ (1995). An automated pellet boiler for domestic hot water in winter, evacuated tube solar thermal collectors providing all hot water from late spring to early autumn and a 1.1 kW peak photovoltaic array.
We may feel that we are on a knife edge, but at least for the first time in human history there is a broad consensus to reduce the emission of greenhouse gases in order to try and avert runaway climatic change. This has united almost all nations on the planet.
After COP21 in Paris 2015, the outgoing International executive director of Greenpeace, Kumi Naidoo, ...
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