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Islay Energy Vision - The Mission

Last edited 27 August 2002 at 8:00am
Islay wave bus logo

Islay wave bus logo

Local communities, businesses and individuals working together to establish Islay as a model community for renewable and environmentally positive energy projects.

How will this be achieved?

Islay has already made substantial advances in this direction. In 1994 ETSU, the UK Government's executive agency for energy technologies, carried out a comprehensive study into energy use and resources on Islay. The research was instigated initially by the distilleries, and many of the subsequent recommendations were implemented by communities, government agencies and Scottish Hydro-Electric. The home insulation initiative, for example, installed insulation in over one third of Islay's homes. Scottish Hydro-Electric are also investigating energy storage projects, such as batteries, flywheels and pumped storage.

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Electric vehicles

Last edited 27 August 2002 at 8:00am
Islay Wave bus powered by renewable energy

Islay Wave bus powered by renewable energy

Electric vehicles are extremely quiet and produce no tailpipe pollution. Where the electricity is generated from renewable energy, as with the Islay Wavebus, their use creates no carbon emissions at all. Unlike fuel cell vehicles, which are still at the prototype stage, electric vehicles are available as production models from most major car makers. Citroen and Peugot provide electric options on many of their models. Ford recently launched the think! Electric city car, whilst Toyota and Honda have developed new electric/petrol hybrids with the Prius and Insight models. The Toyota Prius is a market leader and had reached global sales of 55,000 by the end of 2001 which doubled the number of electric vehicles in the world. New air pollution legislation in California requires that 15% of all new buses are zero emission. In London green vehicles will be exempt from congestion charging, which will increase demand for electric cars and vans.

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The Islay Wave Bus - the world's first!

Posted by bex — 27 August 2002 at 8:00am - Comments
Islay wave bus: the worlds first electric bus to be powered by wave energy

Islay wave bus: the worlds first electric bus to be powered by wave energy

Update: For more on wave power, have a look at our ocean power page.

What is the Islay Wave Bus?
The Islay Wave Bus is the first electric bus in the world to be powered by wave energy. It is also one of only seven electric buses currently operating in the UK. It was formerly used in demonstration projects in Oxford and on Jersey, and has now been refitted with the most up to date electric vehicle technology for community use on Islay. The bus has been upgraded by C&H Bradbury Ltd for Greenpeace, and will be managed and operated by the Islay Development Company (IDC), and used by local community groups.

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Julia Sawalha and Alan Davies say "don't buy Esso" as forecourts face protests.

Last edited 18 May 2002 at 8:00am
18 May, 2002

Stop Esso day: Julia Sawalha and Alan Davies

Britain's biggest ever protest against global warming is taking place today. Campaigners took to the forecourts of 400 Esso garages across the country from 11am as part of a national day of action against the US oil giant, which has done more than any other company to sabotage international action on climate change. 

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Greenpeace guerrilla garages

Posted by bex — 3 November 2001 at 9:00am - Comments

London garage: sign

London garage: sign

Greenpeace has given away thousands of litres of free green fuel to motorists today at refurbished 'guerrilla garages' across the country.

Article tagged as: alternative fuels, biodiesel, climate change, guerilla garages, oil, road transport, transport

Greenpeace: defenders of the skies

Posted by bex — 30 October 2001 at 9:00am - Comments
Earth from space

Earth from space

Greenpeace has always fought to defend the atmosphere from industrial pollution.

From the early 1980s, we confronted factories across Europe and North America who were causing acid rain and documented its effects: dead lakes and forests and acid-eroded historic buildings.

Greenpeace also launched an international campaign to halt the depletion of the ozone layer. In 1992 Greenpeace scientists developed Greenfreeze, a refrigeration technology that uses hydrocarbons in place of ozone-eating CFCs and climate-busting HCFCs and HFCs. Greenfreeze was the world's first refrigerator technology which is safe both for the ozone layer and the climate and it has spread like wildfire throughout Western Europe and to other parts of the world.

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Fuel prices background brief

Last edited 24 September 2001 at 8:00am
Publication date: 
30 September, 2000

The risk to our climate

  • The majority of the world's carbon pollution comes from oil products like petrol and diesel. We can avoid a runaway greenhouse effect but only if we break our addiction to fossil fuels and make the transition to an economy run on renewable energy and hydrogen.
  • Fossil fuel use is already changing our climate. The arctic ice cap has already thinned from 10ft to 6ft in the last 20 years as a result of warmer seas. Scientists predict that the entire polar ice cap could disappear every summer within the next 50 years....
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Oil won't fuel the future

Last edited 27 March 2001 at 9:00am

Traffic jam

Traffic jam

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Greenpeace response to government climate change programme: UK government still dining out on 'dash for gas'

Last edited 17 November 2000 at 9:00am
17 November, 2000

The UK Government's climate change programme, published today, does little to break our economy's dependence on fossil fuels or to build a strong UK renewable energy industry, according to Greenpeace.

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Greenpeace urges truckers and farmers to abandon-fuel-tax-protest

Last edited 14 November 2000 at 9:00am
14 November, 2000

Greenpeace challenges fuel blockaders and argues the case for maintaining current levels of fuel tax

Greenpeace challenges fuel blockaders and argues the case for maintaining current levels of fuel tax

Greenpeace campaigners at the fuel tax protest in Hyde Park today will try to persuade protestors that they are wrong to argue for lower taxes on dirty petrol and diesel but right to support new green alternative fuels.

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