Jason Scarlett
@Jayscarlett71
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Exploring the real life potential of renewables that promote our humanity and your local green environment.
Rochford, East
Joined August 2024
Continuous Cover Forestry, or the ancient art of 'coppicing' as we call it in the UK, is best funded through the energy bills of modern wood stove users, promoting local ecological restoration while reconnecting us with our energy use. #RenewableEnergy #Forestry #Coppice #SharedHumanity #ModernEfficiency #OurHistory
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@healthandforest @blackbirdgirl72 @ConversationUK The WHO have not taken traditional UK forestry into account, they have looked in the wrong places and come to the wrong conclusions. Ignorance is no excuse!
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RT @CharnwoodStoves: The Role Of Sustainable Wood Fuel In Woodland Management #positivewoodburning #cleanairnight #…
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A truck will drive a million kilometres on tarmac roads, wear out dozens of tyres, and deliver carbon laden products from around the globe. The pollution and carbon released during its manufacture and the oil used to run it will far outweigh the footprint of a good stove. The comparison is ridiculous, being blind to that is no excuse.
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@healthandforest @blackbirdgirl72 @ConversationUK Comparing a wood stove to a truck makes little sense. Mainland Europe appears to struggle with sympathetic sustainable forestry and proper chimney design, while in the UK, it's European regulations that are posing the real challenge.
Continuous Cover Forestry, or the ancient art of 'coppicing' as we call it in the UK, is best funded through the energy bills of modern wood stove users, promoting local ecological restoration while reconnecting us with our energy use. #RenewableEnergy #Forestry #Coppice #SharedHumanity #ModernEfficiency #OurHistory
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As with many issues today, the wood stove debate is plagued by two equally harmful extremes. On one side, corporate greenwashing ignores the consequences of unregulated burning. On the other, calls for an outright ban seem so unreasonable to most that they only deepen division and resistance. Neither approach fosters real progress or helps lower emissions.
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@scullingbat @StoveIndustry It can be done much better but @WoodsureFuel, the 'Ready to Burn' scheme, building regulations and the governments clean air strategy are missing the point! Every stove installation must ensure adequate log storage is available.
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RT @Jayscarlett71: @scullingbat A great point Adrienne 👍 If you have an oil or LPG boiler installed, there is a section in the building reg…
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@JohnSodeau @NewstalkFM Burying all cables underground is a massive, carbon-intensive undertaking that would take years to complete and would cause significant environmental damage. Advocating for people to freeze due to your narrow view of energy consequences is neither practical nor helpful.
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20 to 40% of a tree's carbon is stored in the roots. Through repeated coppicing, a tree’s root system can outlive and outgrow that of a naturally aging tree that dies at a fixed lifespan. Some ancient coppiced trees in the UK date back over 1,000 years.
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@scullingbat @StoveIndustry What facts are we to spin? The Guardian says cancer is rising across the world, no mention of wood burners, modern chemicals, fossil fuels, industry or transport. Adrienne, you really need to do some traveling to fully understand how ridiculous your fixations really are!
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@sootybloke @colin_tinker @CLyftwynn @KatieJWhite @wesstreeting @SteveReedMP @Keir_Starmer @DefraUKAir @DefraGovUK @CommonsEFRA With neither coming close to the fumes and destruction caused by the millions using fossil fuels.
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@janrosenow @ember_energy Not sure burning foreign trees by the acre counts as 'renewable', at least not in this century.
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@SmartairUk @PeteK_AQ Whether it's enjoyable or not, wood replaces fossil fuels when used. All energy use has consequences but modern stoves account for a fraction of your false claims. Gas and oil doesn't just impact people within the household, but the entire planet and every living thing on it!
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@hackneycouncil As a local authority you know the exact amount of legal wood stoves installed in your area, every one is registered with building control. How many stoves does @hackneycouncil have?
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Expand the concept of transition towns? ....maybe it's time 🤔
An idea: Local Farmacy Create a national chain of farm shops that serves local communities. A retail cooperative model that is owned by the communities & farmers (and ideally, with no prohibitive business rates from local councils). Bypass the supermarket and buy direct from a local farm or farm shop. This initiative would support local farmers, sells locally produced food, revitalise high street retail by turning many of our empty high street premises into farm shops / grocers, keep cash in the local economy rather than spending in mega corporation supermarkets and improve diet and nutrition through fresh locally grown food rather than ultra processed food. UK farmers receive negligible income while supermarkets receive record profits. An average block of cheese or loaf of bread produces less than a penny for farmers and fruit producers make just 3p from each kilo of apples. Farming only becomes genuinely self sustainable by finding pathways towards new supply chains, self sufficient localism and circular economies.
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RT @treemissions: 🌳 Did You Know? Trees are nature's air purifiers! Carbon Sequestration: Trees absorb CO2 from the atmosphere, storing c…
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