BBC4 "Beautiful Minds" tonight at 9pm

Clovers Cottage, Bowerchalke, as it was in the 1960's and early 1970's, when it was the world's only thatched space laboratory.

The "Beautiful Minds" series on BBC4 tonight (at 9pm) focuses this week on my father James Lovelock and should prove interesting.

As mentioned in this article, when he left his job at the MRC and set up as an independent scientist, he worked in our house in Bowerchalke, and nearly all our family helped with the taking of measurements . This cottage in our garden was used as a laboratory for several years.

Posted by Christine Lovelock

Terry Wogan on swine flu and other scares

Quote from the article:

"Although I won't be around to see it, I believe that in 50 years' time, a bigger penny will drop, and our descendants will look at each other in disbelief and say, "All those windmills! What were they thinking of?"

Read the article in The Telegraph online

Beauty

"We all care about beauty - why don't politicians?" Why has beauty become the word that no one dares mention?

Read this article in The Guardian by Simon Jenkins, and wonder why those in charge of us no longer seem to value something so precious to all of us, something that lifts our spirits and makes life worth living - whether it is a primrose, a soaring bird, a work of art, or a landscape.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2010/apr/08/beauty-politicians-election

www.wind-watch.org

A reminder:

www.wind-watch.org is worth a daily visit...


Remember how the public have been encouraged to cycle around these "wind farms" as if they are real farms and country parks rather than industrial power stations...

From today's wind-watch.org news links...

http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2010/03/23/scots-wind-farm-shut-over-safety-fears-after-150ft-turbine-blade-falls-off/

The Climate Change Act

Another must-read article by Christopher Booker in The Sunday Telegraph today, spells out the fact that Ed Miliband's legislation will cost us hundreds of billions over the next 40 years, while doing nothing to reduce the world's overall carbon footprint.

Happy Easter to all wind warriors

Afterglow, by Bernard Dunstan RA

You can see more of his work on the artistsagainstwindfarms website at this page.

E Bay

To anyone who missed the comment on a recent posting (about Costing the Earth) a reminder that there is a sculpture on EBay highlighting the damage wind farms do to birds. Do look - only 7 hours to go!

http://tinyurl.com/thewindenergy