David Green, the founder of EcoIsland, Sustainability Executive of the Year and "Team Green Britain Hero" has recently taken a video camera with him on a sneak preview of some of the new facilities being constructed for the 2012 London Olympics. Here's what he discovered:

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Hot from the editing suite at The Hub, here's the promotional video the EcoIsland team were displaying on the big screens at the Isle of Wight festival at the weekend:

IOW Festival 2012 Video from David Green on Vimeo.

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I've recently returned from Shillingford St. George, where I sat at the front of the packed village hall whilst Penny and Brendan from Lightsource explained the virtues of generating 12.3 MW of renewable energy on grade 2 agricultural land just north of Dunchideock.  I did enquire if it would be OK for me to record the proceedings on my trusty Sony Handycam, or even just a still camera. Lightsource informed me that they weren't "comfortable" with that idea. The lady sat next to me informed me that she thought "that's a pity".  That is indeed a pity, because it means a more "in depth" report will have to wait for another day,  always assuming that I can successfully decipher my hastily scribbled notes.

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The New Statesman has just published an article about the Isle of Wight entitled "A Paradise in the Making"!  They make this bold claim because David Green's EcoIsland Partnership has recently been launched with a fair amount of fanfare in a large marquee just outside the Houses of Parliament in London.

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