Sustainable Eigg

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Open University lecturers Ronald Mackintyre and Bruce Heil visited the 'Green' islanders of Eigg, Scotland in summer 2010 to see for themselves how these proactive residents get most of their electricity from hydro, solar and wind schemes. Renewable energy normally provides the isle with 92% of its electricity and the community has reduced household carbon emissions by 47%. Ronald and Bruce look into the technological, social and economic green journey the islanders are on.
2010 UK winners of the Ashden Awards for Sustainable Energy

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Study 'T123 Sustainable Scotland with the OU http://www3.open.ac.uk/study/undergraduate/course/T123.htm

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• Green
• Sustainability
• Sustainable energy
• Eigg
• Scotland
• Inner Hebrides
• Island
• Isle
• islanders
• Renewable energy
• community action
• carbon emissions
• electricity
• hydro
• solar
• wind
• technology
• social
• economic
• community
• Open University
• Ronald Mackintyre
• Bruce Heil
• Egg

[georgeigg]

Wonderful place! You are lucky, that you may live there! I hope so I see it yet once! Georgy from Hungary :)

[tr0llerguy]

@sweetypie000 yeah I agree, I'd rather rip up the ground and destroy the landscape with open-pit mines for coal

[drayj14]

Wow. What cool video. So beautiful!

[sweetypie000]

ultimately the goal is to inundate the landscaped with ugly wind turbines which are cheap to install and maintain but the cost to the consumer will still be high

why dont people just leave the countryside alone

[twstdelf]

Looks beautiful. Good luck with your green-ing.