07-06-2018 Detroit, Michigan, USA: OnStar Command Center, Global Headquarters of General Motors. Workers monitor and direct the activities of their 3 national call centers in Michigan, North Carolina and Toronto... © Jim West

02-10-2017 London Police Officers laying out a Talon spiked net outside Parliament to prevent vehicle terror attacks against crowds attending major events. The nets are capable of stopping lorries weighing up to... © Stefano Cagnoni

02-10-2017 London Police Officers laying out a Talon spiked net outside Parliament to prevent vehicle terror attacks against crowds attending major events. The nets are capable of stopping lorries weighing up to... © Stefano Cagnoni

02-10-2017 London Police Officers laying out a Talon spiked net outside Parliament to prevent vehicle terror attacks against crowds attending major events. The nets are capable of stopping lorries weighing up to... © Stefano Cagnoni

02-10-2017 London Police Officers laying out a Talon spiked net outside Parliament to prevent vehicle terror attacks against crowds attending major events. The nets are capable of stopping lorries weighing up to... © Stefano Cagnoni

02-10-2017 London Police Officers laying out a Talon spiked net outside Parliament to prevent vehicle terror attacks against crowds attending major events. The nets are capable of stopping lorries weighing up to... © Stefano Cagnoni

02-10-2017 London Police Officers laying out a Talon spiked net outside Parliament to prevent vehicle terror attacks against crowds attending major events. The nets are capable of stopping lorries weighing up to... © Stefano Cagnoni

14-09-2017 Hanksville, Utah, USA: Mars Desert Research Station. Researchers simulate living on Mars. The RVs (R) house project administration, and are not part of the simulation. © Jim West

28-05-2014 Watford City, North Dakota - Natural gas is flared off as oil is pumped in the Bakken shale formation. © Jim West

28-05-2014 Watford City, North Dakota - Natural gas is flared off as oil is pumped in the Bakken shale formation. © Jim West

29-11-2012 Williamsport, Pennsylvania - A natural gas well being drilled near a house in rural Lycoming County in preparation for hydraulic fracturing (fracking). © Jim West

28-11-2012 Construction site, Redrow development of a brownfield site for residential , Stratford upon Avon, Warwickshire © John Harris

11-08-2011 A waitress entering a customer's order into the till to record the order and produce the bill. Piccolino restaurant, Bristol. © Paul Box

11-08-2011 A waitress entering a customer's order into the till to record the order and produce the bill. Piccolino restaurant, Bristol. © Paul Box

24-06-2011 A BT Openreach engineer installing fibre optic broadband. © Paul Box

24-06-2011 A BT Openreach engineer installing fibre optic broadband. © Paul Box

24-06-2011 A BT Openreach engineer installing fibre optic broadband. © Paul Box

23-06-2011 Contractors fixing solar panels to the roof of a terraced house, Barnet, London © Duncan Phillips

13-06-2011 BT Openreach, installing a new telephone line to a house, Pembrokeshire, Wales. © Paul Box

13-06-2011 BT Openreach, installing a new telephone line to a house, Pembrokeshire, Wales. © Paul Box

13-06-2011 BT Openreach, installing a new telephone line to a house, Pembrokeshire, Wales. © Paul Box

13-06-2011 BT Openreach, installing a new telephone line to a house, Pembrokeshire, Wales. © Paul Box

13-06-2011 BT Openreach, installing a new telephone line to a house, Pembrokeshire, Wales. © Paul Box

19-05-2011 Housing to rent. Too late Let Agreed sign. Ipswich, Suffork. © John Harris

07-10-2010 A customer works on his laptop computer at Milagros Coffee House. Profits from the coffee shop support La Puente, a nonprofit agency providing social services in Colorado's San Luis Valley. USA © Jim West

06-10-2010 A worker with Veterans Green Jobs uses instruments to measure air leaks in a home, prior to doing insulating work. Testing House Leakage with a blower door. An infiltrometer (blower door) is a variabl... © Jim West

30-08-2010 Ship used by Trinity House to maintain bouys in UK waters, Multi Functional Tender (MFT), GALATEA designed with buoy handling, wreck marking, towing and multibeam and side scan hydrographic surveying... © Duncan Phillips

17-08-2010 Crop spraying asparagus ferns with an insecticide on a farm in Wawickshire. © John Harris

24-07-2009 Television aerial on a roof silhouetted against a stormy sky on a chimney. North Shields, Tyne and Wear © Mark Pinder

19-01-2009 Thermographers from Heatseekers analysing heat loss from homes in Salford. The van based infrared camera scans houses and the results are used to inform residents who may need to improve home insulati... © Christopher Thomond

19-01-2009 Thermographers from Heatseekers analysing heat loss from homes in Salford. The van based infrared camera scans houses and the results are used to inform residents who may need to improve home insulati... © Christopher Thomond

10-12-2008 Ffos-y-Fran opencast coal mine site above Merthyr Tydfil. It is only 36 metres from nearby houses. © John Harris

10-12-2008 Ffos-y-Fran opencast coal mine site above Merthyr Tydfil. It is only 36 metres from nearby houses. © John Harris

10-12-2008 Mobile phone mast near houses, Merthyr Tydfil © John Harris

24-02-2008 A dangerous electrical fuse board on a hose refurbishment which electrics require rewiring. © Paul Box

23-11-2007 Polsat satellite TV dish on the side of a house of Multiple Occupancy (HMO). Stratford upon Avon, Wawickshire. © John Harris

10-10-2007 Digital television switchover UK. Whitehaven in Cumbria is the first town in Britain to have exclusively digital television reception when the analogue TV signal is switched off beginning October 17th... © Mark Pinder

10-10-2007 Digital television switchover UK. Whitehaven in Cumbria is the first town in Britain to have exclusively digital television reception when the analogue TV signal is switched off beginning October 17th... © Mark Pinder

10-10-2007 Digital television switchover UK. Whitehaven in Cumbria is the first town in Britain to have exclusively digital television reception when the analogue TV signal is switched off beginning October 17th... © Mark Pinder

10-10-2007 Digital television switchover UK. Whitehaven in Cumbria is the first town in Britain to have exclusively digital television reception when the analogue TV signal is switched off beginning October 17th... © Mark Pinder

10-10-2007 Digital television switchover UK. Whitehaven in Cumbria is the first town in Britain to have exclusively digital television reception when the analogue TV signal is switched off beginning October 17th... © Mark Pinder

10-10-2007 Digital television switchover UK. Whitehaven in Cumbria is the first town in Britain to have exclusively digital television reception when the analogue TV signal is switched off beginning October 17th... © Mark Pinder

10-10-2007 Digital television switchover UK. Whitehaven in Cumbria is the first town in Britain to have exclusively digital television reception when the analogue TV signal is switched off beginning October 17th... © Mark Pinder

10-10-2007 Digital television switchover UK. Whitehaven in Cumbria is the first town in Britain to have exclusively digital television reception when the analogue TV signal is switched off beginning October 17th... © Mark Pinder

10-10-2007 Digital television switchover UK. Whitehaven in Cumbria is the first town in Britain to have exclusively digital television reception when the analogue TV signal is switched off beginning October 17th... © Mark Pinder

21-09-2007 House with Solar panels on the roof, Wesel, Germany © Timm Sonnenschein

08-01-2007 Rotating ventilation cowls on the roof of a building at the Beddington Zero Energy Development BedZED in the London Borough of Sutton. Warm air extracted from the highly insulated buildings heats cold... © Philip Wolmuth

08-01-2007 Rotating ventilation cowls on the roof and solar panels on the south-facing wall of a building at the Beddington Zero Energy Development BedZED in the London Borough of Sutton. The 82 mixed tenure hou... © Philip Wolmuth

08-01-2007 Rotating ventilation cowls on the roof and solar panels on the south-facing wall of a building at the Beddington Zero Energy Development BedZED in the London Borough of Sutton. The 82 mixed tenure hou... © Philip Wolmuth

08-01-2007 Electric vehicle charging point at the Beddington Zero Energy Development BedZED in the London Borough of Sutton. A Green Transport Plan is an integral part of what is the UKs largest carbon neutral e... © Philip Wolmuth

08-01-2007 Rotating ventilation cowls and rain water collection pipes on the roof of a building at the Beddington Zero Energy Development BedZED, in the London Borough of Sutton. The 82 mixed tenure housing unit... © Philip Wolmuth

08-01-2007 Rotating ventilation cowls on the roof of a building at the Beddington Zero Energy Development BedZED in the London Borough of Sutton. Warm air extracted from the highly insulated buildings heats cold... © Philip Wolmuth

08-01-2007 Rotating ventilation cowls on the roof of a building at the Beddington Zero Energy Development BedZED in the London Borough of Sutton. Warm air extracted from the highly insulated buildings heats cold... © Philip Wolmuth

08-01-2007 Rotating ventilation cowls on the roof of a building at the Beddington Zero Energy Development BedZED in the London Borough of Sutton. Warm air extracted from the highly insulated buildings heats cold... © Philip Wolmuth

08-01-2007 Rotating ventilation cowls on the roof of a building at the Beddington Zero Energy Development BedZED in the London Borough of Sutton. Warm air extracted from the highly insulated buildings heats cold... © Philip Wolmuth

08-01-2007 The Beddington Zero Energy Development BedZED in the London Borough of Sutton. The 82 mixed tenure housing units, part of the UK's largest carbon neutral eco community, were designed by Bill Dunster A... © Philip Wolmuth

08-01-2007 Rotating ventilation cowls on the roof of a building at the Beddington Zero Energy Development BedZED in the London Borough of Sutton. Warm air extracted from the highly insulated buildings heats cold... © Philip Wolmuth

06-04-2006 Palm House at Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew © Duncan Phillips

06-04-2006 Palm House at Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew © Duncan Phillips

06-04-2006 Palm House at Kew Gardens © Duncan Phillips

06-04-2006 Palm House at Kew Gardens © Duncan Phillips

06-04-2006 Palm House at Kew Gardens © Duncan Phillips

13-01-2006 Keyboards dangling from the ceiling in a classroom at the Dormer Secondary Comprehensive School, Warwick, Warwickshire. The school has been sold off to make way for the construction of new houses and... © Justin Tallis

13-01-2006 Keyboards dangling from the ceiling in a classroom at the Dormer Secondary Comprehensive School, Warwick, Warwickshire. The school has been sold off to make way for the construction of new houses and... © Justin Tallis

11-11-2004 The London Eye, Big Ben and the Houses of Parliament. © Philip Wolmuth

02-07-2004 Yorklake Homes new build sustainable living apartments with solar panel roof. East London. © Jess Hurd

22-06-2004 Bangor University of Wales. Experimental glass research domes used to carried out controlled light and air experiments to monitor global warming. © David Mansell

09-11-2001 Pupils using microscopes and iBook laptop computers in science lesson at Crompton House school, Shaw, near Oldham, UK © Paul Herrmann

29-04-2001 Farmhouse with horse in a paddock near Oldbury Nuclear Power Station, an early Madnox reactor. © John Harris

17-07-2000 Washing blowing in the wind infront of a row of terraced houses, Cumbria. Windfarm in the distance © Paul Carter

17-07-2000 A young boy roller skating along the street by a row of terraced houses, Cumbria. Windmills from a windfarm are in the distance. © Paul Carter

17-07-2000 Workers relaxing during their lunch break on the coast of Cumbria. This windfarm supplies 3,800 homes and saves 15,225 tonnes of green house gasses a year. © Paul Carter

16-06-1988 Women cleaning windows of a terrace house, VSEL shipyard which builds the Trident nuclear submarine in the background. Barrow-in-Furnes © John Harris