I've mentioned elsewhere about the eco towns being set up in the UK..

Would you choose to live in one? Despite the many restrictions and regulations you would have to abide by?

gone back to the moon. Didn't they collect a lot of material from the moon that could help us with our environmental issues?

Although originally intending to start with 10 such places, the government recently annouced plans for 4 of these to be built..

They are Rackheath, Norfolk; north-west Bicester, Oxfordshire; Whitehill Bordon, East Hants; and the China Clay Community near St Austell, Cornwall.

tyhey will be totally carbon neutral, and if successful more will spring up with government funding around the country.

The towns would include smart meters to track energy use, community heat sources and charging points for electric cars. Parks, playgrounds and gardens would make up 40% of their area.

Affordable homes would take their energy from the sun, wind and earth, with residents able to sell their surplus energy into the grid.

Their development would be coupled with strict rules on public transport, with all homes located within 10 minutes' walk of bus, train or tram services.

Sounds good? or as some protesters and opposition ministers are saying, just a guimmick?

it is obviously better to use buses and trains than everyone in their cars, but how many of us carry on using our cars anyway? I know i'm guilty...

Does anyone have any knowledge of that...are their any commercially sold? or can you make your own?

is the congestion of the world drawing close to a break-point?

contemporarily, humanity is at some point that is considerable as being little more infancy reganding genetical sciences... how do you find our current standing in terms of the achievements at genetics? will it do us any good? and most importantly should we continue the researches on genetics?