The Isle of Man - Could electric cars unlock the island's clean tech potential?

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Friends of the Earth ventures to the Isle of Man and finds a community boasting huge clean energy potential and worrying fossil fuel lock-in

It's only human to get a bit of a kick out of visiting an island. I'm sure there are plenty of psychologists somewhere that have theories about why this is. Perhaps it appeals to our atavistic instincts...

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