Zoe Williams picks up a flux pen and gets involved with a workshop set up to connect people with the energy they use
Im not saying renewables are rubbish, said Dan Quiggin, 31. Im just saying they need to sit behind the main priority, which is demand reduction. Like most things in capitalist society, ours is predominantly a consumption problem. Outside the Methodist church in Cowley Road, Oxford, the group Demand Energy Equality are teaching walk-ups how to make DIY solar panels.
Its free, Max Wakefield, Quiggins colleague and friend, calls to passersby. Its obvious that its free: no workshop with this many beards ever charges anybody. Theres never an empty space, though who doesnt, given the chance, want a go with a soldering iron?