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...“It’s hard to not feel aggrieved when government policy encourages energy efficiency; you try to do things right and end up creating a mountain of paperwork. Some people just haven’t bothered.”...
...For centuries, ancient Silk Roads wove past its mountain ranges, lakes, deserts and valleys....
...The lodge is ideally located for tracking the region’s endangered mountain gorillas or climbing the extraordinary Nyiragongo volcano....
...“We grew up at the foot of a mountain in a little village....
...While Britain’s “pylon poets” such as Stephen Spender celebrated them as symbols of technological progress, the Council for the Preservation of Rural England and other campaigners lamented the ruination...
...However, like all locals, she recognises the difficulty of balancing preservation and financial viability....
...All have been beautifully restored: such are the Swiss regulations on preservation that it’s easier to expose history than try to overlay it....
...The painterly vista of the Hudson river and Catskill Mountains framed by Joan Davidson’s porch in Germantown, New York, would not be out of place 100 miles south in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, among...
...“The preservation of journalism is what’s important. Print will continue to decline.”...
...Schindhelm, former director of Berlin’s Opera House, went to head the emirate’s embryonic cultural council....
...The renovation plan is one of “progressive preservation”, he says....
...They joined the village hydroelectricity co-operative, which taps into the mountain streams to produce the community’s power....
...But it owes its preservation to its hippies as well as its history....
...Sisters who ministered to the city’s poor resisted enclosure (being locked indoors) when it was ordered by the Council of Trent in 1545....
...I went to an interminable council meeting recently at my local town hall in London which gave me far too much time to study its architecture....
..."There was a perception in the European Council that the Commission didn't count, that Prodi was weak," says another close colleague of Mr Prodi....
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