hey hedgewitch, Thanks, Valencia, beautiful place, I also have some Valencian friends over there. I think here they just recycle the cloth / fibres probably making paper or soemthing, but I don't actually know, I'll have to check it out.
According to the International Environmental Sustainability Index Spain does have a bit of catching up to do
If you break it down by Autonimous region a different picture unfolds, one region (I struggle to remember which one) is self sufficent(ish) in renewable energy, located somewhere between you and me. Basque Country actually stopped a Nuclear Power Station from being completed here, they delivered the reactor... then took at away again. Too much civil disobidience. Everyone kept switching on and off electrical appliances at an agreed time, and just tripped all the fuses on the grid, which had to be reset by hand. Then they did it again, and again and again, until it was cheaper to take the reactor back and stop building it. I think someone blew up a few things on the site as well, but I don't condone violence. However the upshot is many many wind farms, and running water hydro, they look majestic and beutiful. They have not disturbed load of ancient peat, like a wind farm in the Shetlands would, so quickly become carbon neutral.
I realise that these kinds of statistics are, well just one interpretation of a bunch of data, but at least Spain's not at the bottom.
Here is the full list of 'ESI Country ratings' starting from the best:
- Finland
- Norway
- Uruguay
- Sweden
- Iceland
- Canada
- Switzerland
- Guyana
- Argentina
- Austria
- Brazil
- Gabon
- Australia
- New Zealand
- Latvia
- Peru
- Paraguay
- Costa Rica
- Croatia
- Bolivia
- Ireland
- Lithuania
- Colombia
- Albania
- Central African Republic
- Denmark
- Estonia
- Panama
- Slovenia
- Japan
- Germany
- Namibia
- Russia
- Botswana
- Papua New Guinea
- France
- Portugal
- Malaysia
- Congo
- Netherlands
- Mali
- Chile
- Bhutan
- Armenia
- United States
- Burma
- Belarus
- Slovakia
- Ghana
- Cameroon
- Ecuador
- Laos
- Cuba
- Hungary
- Tunisia
- Georgia
- Uganda
- Moldova
- Senegal
- Zambia
- Bosnia and Herzegovina
- Israel
- Tanzania
- Madagascar
- United Kingdom
- Nicaragua
- Greece
- Cambodia
- Italy
- Bulgaria
- Mongolia
- Gambia
- Thailand
- Malawi
- Indonesia
- Spain
- Philippines
- Kazakhstan
- Sri Lanka
- Kyrgyzstan
- Guinea
- Venezuela
- Oman
- Jordan
- Nepal
- Benin
- Honduras
- Côte d'Ivoire
- Serbia and Montenegro
- Republic of Macedonia
- Turkey
- Czech Republic
- South Africa
- Romania
- Mexico
- Algeria
- Burkina Faso
- Nigeria
- Azerbaijan
- Kenya
- India
- Poland
- Niger
- Chad
- Morocco
- Rwanda
- Mozambique
- Ukraine
- Jamaica
- United Arab Emirates
- Togo
- Belgium
- Democratic Republic of the Congo
- Bangladesh
- Egypt
- Guatemala
- Syria
- El Salvador
- Dominican Republic
- Sierra Leone
- Liberia
- South Korea
- Angola
- Mauritania
- Guinea-Bissau
- Libya
- Vietnam
- Zimbabwe
- Lebanon
- Burundi
- Pakistan
- Iran
- China
- Tajikistan
- Ethiopia
- Saudi Arabia
- Yemen
- Kuwait
- Trinidad and Tobago
- Sudan
- Haiti
- Uzbekistan
- Iraq
- Turkmenistan
- North Korea
