'Perhaps We Should Set Windfarms Up In Circles'

Grauniad regulars might have noticed ex-Teardrop Explodes frontman Julian Cope gracing the cover of the Society section.

Inside there's an interview with Cope, who's not just a post-punk musician of consumate weirdness and brilliance, but also a serious researcher into ancient stone circles and landscapes.

He believes that our connection with the landscape is a deep one and that our monuments are an attempt to give meaning to place. He also argues that while we need to protect ancient monuments of significance, that we're too precious about conservation of some, places, trying to preserve old things purely because they're old.

"Perhaps we should set windfarms up in lines or in circles,' he suggests. "Let's be monumental about them".

He also believes that "the Peak District National Park is now a vast sanctuary for the hundreds of thousands of people who live near it, just as in the past the megalith builders turned the whole area into a huge limestone sanctuary relflecting the monumental landscape."

We're guessing that Cope would be pro-bolting then...

Interesting reading, you can find the full Guardian Society article here.