Imagine a six year-old spending the day building sandcastles and exploring the rock pools on a sun-drenched Cornish beach… and then spending the night unable to sleep because of the pain from the sunburn on his back. That’s my memory of 1976 (that and a very long car journey fighting with my brother in the back…
The sun rises and the sun sets with a regularity and predictability that underpins all the rhythms of our lives, rhythms that ultimately govern when we consume energy and the forms in which we wish to use it. Of course, it is also the source of all that energy, and in recent years we have…
‘In Scandinavia it is a common wisdom that you can tell a lot about a person from their woodpile’ (Lars Mytting, ‘Norwegian Wood’). As a result, when travelling in that part of the world, the elaborate creations that you see show just how culturally important stores of energy have remained. A serendipitous combination of climate and geography…