‘It is a genuinely beautiful country. It has everything that people travel a long way to see and perhaps forget that it is on their own doorstep a lot of the time. On a beautiful sunny day, Wales has everything; mountains, rolling hills and lakes and all the kind of stuff that people jet off to see in Italy, but all those good things are just down the road. In places like Machynlleth, you have communities who are aiming to be or already are largely self-sufficient, so really quite far advanced down a sustainability route and way ahead of most other people and quite extreme in some of their views. On the other hand, you also have this real sense that coal is synonymous with Wales and for a lot of people it is still really close to their hearts. Wales is one of the best countries in the world to realistically say they could have a sustainable future. Wales could provide its own energy, as it has plenty of wind, waves and water.’