<a href="http://sanjidaoconnel.livejournal.com/872.html">Sanjida O'Connell: The truth about life in a 'green' house</a>

A year ago I covered a story for The Independent on a new green development in Bristol. Six years previously a group of local residents had successfully campaigned against a property developer, bought the land themselves, and built their own environmentally-friendly houses.