Tuesday 21 September 2010

Roots and Shoots


My eco trail got 790 views!


Roots and Shoots was one of the buildings I viewed on the Saturday as part of the eco-architecture trail and they gave us a tour. It boasts rain-water harvesting (the rain flushes the toilets), solar photovoltaic panels (any extra electricity needed is sourced from Green Energy and any surplus made is sold back to the grid), solar hot water and sheeps wool insulator as well as sustainably sourced building materials.


It is currently an education and training centre for biodiversity and conservation, which is aided by its ‘green roofs’, planted roofs and quite frankly flourishing wildlife garden. Apparently mini tulips grow on the gravel roof in spring where trapdoors spiders and wasps and other creatures live too.


I hope all 790 of you enjoyed it as much as I did!

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