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Camille left France to settle on a small Scottish island. A radical lifestyle choice with pioneers of renewable energies…
Boarding for the Isle of Eigg, off the coast of Scotland. An area of thirty square kilometers covered with mountains and green valleys, where about a hundred inhabitants live. They bought this piece of land twenty-five years ago for 1.5 million pounds sterling (1.7 million euros).
They dreamed of autonomy and community life. A utopia ? A fairy tale ? No. There, all decisions are made unanimously. And the islanders did not wait for the recent upheavals in the climate to change their model.
Unique energy self-sufficiency in the world
All energies are used: solar, wind or hydraulic. The inhabitants are self-sufficient in energy, and this is unique in the world! In the middle of this tribe of pioneers is Camille, whom the magazine “1:15 p.m. on Sunday” (Twitter, #1:15 p.m.) met during this report by Frédéric Roullier, Thibault Payré and Hélène Amétis (replay).
The French arrived somewhat by chance on the Isle of Eigg forty years ago. She never left this little piece of land, got married there, had two children and built her home. Camille is fully involved in the management of the island and says that she has simply found her place.
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