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Green Spaces Search Finds Old Leake's Eco-Lodge

Where: Station Rd, Old Leake, United Kingdom, PE22 9RF

The UK Times are spending the next few months gathering nominations from the public for their Green Spaces Travel awards: that is, the most environmentally friendly places to stay that have helped to change your attitude to be more green.

One of the first nominations to come in is for the Eco-Lodge in Old Leake, Lincolnshire. We've long been amazed by this place and its founder Andy Reynolds, who's come up with all kinds of creative solutions to keep the lodge as environmentally sound as possible, and who's not afraid to try to teach the rest of us a thing or two, at the same time.

As the nominating guest said, the Eco-Lodge is not the kind of place where they think they're green just because they suggest you shouldn't get your towels washed every day. Instead, you use homemade charcoal to cook homegrown veges and local organic meat. A shed full of old forklift batteries have been converted to store energy generated by a rusty old windmill Andy resurrected from scrap.

Eco-Lodge doesn't sound like the most comfortable place to stay, but it has to win some prize as one of the greenest. We'll be following the Times to see if a few more comfortable yet nearly-as-green places get nominated for the Green Spaces Travel awards.

[Photo: Windsors Child]