Team Green Britain

I'd like to bring your attention to a local development I'm involved with known as the "Our Back Field" project.  Over the last few years, the "Hunger Hill Action Group" - a very active residents association of a 180 home housing estate have successfully obtained funding and executed a plan to clear and completely transform what was an area of overgrown wasteland at the rear of the estate into a thriving nature reserve and a communal meeting area.  The spectacular results can be seen on this page.

However, we'd like to take this a step further now and create a sizable allotment area whereby local residents, school children and community groups can get involved with growing and harvesting their own vegatables.  An area of land has been earmarked for this project but funding to provide materials, tools and training for the community is needed to get this project off the ground.  This would create a fantastic opportunity for sustainable living and the hope is this could become a model for other communities to follow.

Hello Team Green Britain.  My name is Lee Higson and I live in Bolton with my wife and two children.  I work as an Operations Technician onboard a North Sea Oil and Gas platform.  Many of you may consider it rather ironic that I'm one of the "heroes" to be selected, particularly when my job involves exploiting the dwindling hydrocarbon reserves off our coastline and commuting by what is perhaps the most eco-unfriendly transportation around - helicopters!

However, it is precisely this background that has led me to back fully the Team Green Britain scheme and start making major changes in our home and lifestyles.  Witnessing first hand, the depletion of the Earth's finite resources made me want to do something to avoid wasting energy within my own life and preserve and protect the environment for my children.  I hope over the coming months to deliver to you a few insights into my own experiences in this field.