DALE VINCE-DIAMOND GEEZER

The owner of Ecotricity and Chairman of Forest Green Rovers is Dale Vince and I have written about him twice because his story is one you really must know or be reminded about. 

He lives in a mansion near Stroud, owns Forest Green Rovers FC and has banned his players from eating red meat, does not allow the sale of red meat at the ground and has installed the world's first organic pitch, cut by a solar powered lawn mower. After the removal of the red meat van at the club, his fans now gorge themselves on veggie burgers and he claims that people come up to him and tell him that he has "changed their lives". Hmmmm? Vincent claims some supporters come to the ground just for the food-well it can't be for the football can it? Each 1st team player has a new diet and an electric club car. "Red meat slows you down", say Vince and so do electric cars, I think! You have to admire him don't you? Bless.

The blog below covers the main items of his commitment to football (and the globe) BUT not his most recent scheme, presented in the news overnight and this morning:

https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/3994718670252035536/4813672134084210106 

Born in August 1961, he left school at 15 years of age, married and with three children to support, he has already broken a rule of "how many children should you have to save the world?"  He saw his first wind farm in 1991 and decided to make something of this and in 1995 founded the "Renewable Energy Company". In 1996 he launched his first windmill providing green electricity.

In 2010 Vince became a shareholder of Forest Green Rovers and by 2011 he was Chairman, setting  new standards in the way that football clubs should be run.

Described as a British "green energy" industrialist, he started out as a New Age Traveller...see link. 

His most recent involvement is creating artificial diamonds from "chemical vapour deposition", capturing the carbon from its abundance in rain water, in the atmosphere. He claims he will be able to produce diamonds from CO2, using his environmentally produced energy, which will be the same as diamonds mined from the earth. With all that potential finance at his beck and call, what about FGR to climb through the pyramid and grace the Premier League then? Add a "jewel" to the "crown".