While only 3000 homes won’t exactly make a ‘city’ by most people’s standards, it will be quite a community. I don’t think the green victory is so much in the development of this actual project but in the fact that we’ll be able to see exactly what such a sustainable community looks like, i.e. if it’s a beautiful urban landscape or an awful mess of green technology which overwhelms everything else.

Many proponents of tradition power generation point to us having to plaster wind trubines and solar cells over so much of our countryside that it will ruin the natural world. This project will show if there’s any truth in that and show just how such technology can blend into the landscape as opposed to overpowering it. Personally, I think it could be beautiful in itself – I saw the enormous wind farms of California recently and was immensely impressed with both the green aspect and the beauty of so many structures and blades cascading over the hillsides.

I’ll be very interested to see how this project turns out. It could be a wonderful example for developments around the globe.
Steve N. Lee
author of eco-blog http://www.lionsledbysheep.com
and suspense thriller ‘What if…?’