Guardian: The National Trust is to invest 30m in solar panels, woodchip boilers and innovative technology that can extract heat from a lake, in a bid to supply half of its energy needs from renewable sources by 2020.
The significant investment in renewable power by Europes largest conservation organisation is an eightfold increase on the 3.5m the trust has already invested in five pilot green projects.
Although the trust has opposed individual windfarms on visual grounds in the past it says it believes...