This work is a challenge to the present-2017- environment lobby. I am 75 years old grew up at a time when “the environment” was not an issue, people lived by make do and mend, we recycled and reused everything. I grew my own vegetables designed and had made a wood burning stove that heated the home and all the hot water. I cut down dead trees, with permission of the owners, and generally tried to follow a sustainability path.In those days “small is beautiful” and being independent were the mantras, there were no paid green lobbyist, no government ministers of the environment. There was no money in being “green”. There were no green taxes, no political advantage in “green” proposals.