My American family on the peak of the local mountain, where from we can see Boston.

We helped my cousin to get rid of the leaves from the autumn. Big surface, that’s a lot of work, but when it’s a small farm… It’s interesting that after a job like this, I had a lot of energy, it would have been perfect to visit in the evening Fine Arts Museum, but the traffic…

I don’t understand why in the 60’s, before they started to move in the outskirts of the cities, they hadn’t make a test to see how it would be the life of the people when everyone commutes.

I could see quite often efforts to be more green. If you look carefully you can see the Audi is hybrid, and the car in front of it is a Toyota Prius. The day I came in Boston, my aunt got her new Nissan Leaf, an electric car, 100 miles autonomy, chargeable for free in a couple of places.

But for the moment, instead of setting the charging places in front of the shops, to be visible, so everyone to see and to think that another benefit of such a car is that’s easier to find a spot, there are set at the back of the buildings. Once we spent 5 minutes with the guy at the security, because he couldn’t understand ‘electrical car’.

Massachusetts state goes green. I saw a lot of solar panels, even some farms. My aunt and my cousin installed solar panels from Solar City, the company of Elan Musk. You pay nothing for the installation, and a few for the panels, but you split the harvested energy.

This forest is very young. It has maximum 40 years. Since XVIIth century, New England had a lot of farm, and as they were extending, the forest was cut. In the 60’s, working the field became totally not feasible, so the old farms let the ground neglected. The forest took over, without any human intervention.

This railway was heavily used during the wars. In the 80’s was completly closed. Now they talk to make a cyclable road over it, like our famous RAVel in Belgium.

The nature has a big power to recover, if it is allowed.