Carbon Neutral Homes...
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Build Your Own Earthship: the Ultimate Sustainable Home!
Earthships are growing in popularity around the world and are said to be the ultimate in sustainability – but be warned, they don’t often look...
Calculating Your Home's Carbon Output
Media attention has shifted over the past year from encouraging us to calculate our personal carbon footprint that is how much carbon we individually...
Carbon Neutral Plans for the UK
In his 2006 pre-Budget speech the Chancellor at the time, Gordon Brown mentioned his wish to see Carbon Neutral homes being built throughout the UK, and this year,...
Changes to Feed-in-Tariffs: What this Means for your Sustainable Build
After much speculation, the UK Government has announced plans to cut the Feed-in-Tariffs (FiTs) by 50% for new solar installations, as part of...
Could Your Home Be a Super Home?
Sustainability is now a big part of most new build projects – but what about the millions of older homes in the UK which make up the bulk of our housing?...
How to Have a Healthy Home
According to experts, air pollution is the main cause of virtually all respiratory problems – and the pollution could be higher inside your home than outdoors....
Making Your Home Carbon Neutral
If you have calculated your personal total carbon footprint and also that of your house, as detailed on our page ' Calculating your home's carbon output', and are...
Reclaimed Materials
This guide can take the form of a booklet, or instead be an online, Internet resource, which gives consumers or ordinary householders the means to make sensible,...
The UK's First Low Carbon Town
The UK’s first low carbon town in South Wales was a mammoth undertaking and involved making around 40,000 existing homes much more energy efficient.
The...
