This was in today's Nottingham Evening post.
A BID to turn Nottingham into the greenest city in the UK will begin today.
Nottingham City Council wants to cash in on the green energy revolution by attracting large-scale investment in environmental technology, which would cut residents' fuel bills and create hundreds of jobs.
The council's plans include:
A scheme to more than double the size of the city's district heating system, which is already the biggest in the country and provides cheap and secure green energy to thousands of city homes.
A large-scale photo-voltaic project which could mean solar panels going up on thousands of roofs across Nottingham, and also create "green jobs".
A cutting-edge "Energy Park" in Bulwell where new businesses will be powered by food scraps, garden trimmings and wood waste from across the city.
Eradicating landfill by making recycling more efficient and picking out more materials than ever for reuse – including the leftover ash from the city's incinerator for road aggregate.
Deputy city council leader Councillor Graham Chapman insisted : "It is not just some great big idealised approach that we want to be green.
"There is money in waste and there is money in energy.
"The whole aim is to be green in order to provide green energy to make us competitive.
"We are already the most energy self sufficient city in the UK and we want to maintain that lead and increase it and compete with European cities."
