Monday, April 30, 2012

United Kingdom: Solar panels combat more than climate change

Guardian: A little over a year ago I found myself clambering through a skylight on to the roof of Fox school, a primary nestled in a back street in London's Notting Hill. The headteacher, Paul Cotter, was taking me to see a recently installed solar system: an impressive array of blue-black photovoltaic panels packed on to the flat roof of the 1930s building and angled towards the southern sky on chunky plastic stands. As we gazed out over west London (and admired the vegetable garden and chicken coop below),...

URL: http://www.guardian.co.uk/education/2012/apr/30/schools-solar-power-climate-change-community

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