Below you'll find a list of all posts that have been categorized as “Campaigns”
22 March 2021 (we have published this word for word as it shows on the Government’s own website – we have made no edits to the content). The Government is failing to grasp the enormous challenge of decarbonising the UKās housing stock, which accounts for 20% of our greenhouse gas emissions, the Environmental Audit Committee (EAC) warns today*. Read the …
Well – this is really exciting – but we’ve been shortlisted in the Built Environment section of The Guardian Sustainable Business Awards: Built Environment – An award for innovative redevelopments or new-build projects that are at the leading-edge of approaches to reducing the built environmentās negative environmental impacts and raising its positive social impacts. http://www.theguardian.com/sustainable-business/2016/mar/14/announcing-the-2016-guardian-sustainable-business-awards-shortlist We’re up against some pretty …
Part III of our ecorenovation in pictures,
So – pictures part II for our current eco renovation project in West Sussex. These photos have been set up into small groups to avoid over loading the server.. Ā check back in a couple of days for the next up load…
This is a post that has been generously shared with us by The Green Register‘s Lucy Pedler. Hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, was developed in the 1940s to recover gas from conventional wells and has more recently ārevolutionisedā the American energy industry, allowing the USA to become temporarily more energy independent by extracting gas (and oil) from small fractures in the …
Setting up the Green Building Partnership (GBP) with a terrific group of like minded and dedicated people and companies in the last two years, has led Bright Green Homes to a terrific moment in 2013. We have been successful in helping to develop an exciting project as part of the Department of Energy & Climate Change initiative – Green Deal …
Well, the much vaunted Green Deal; in Greg Barker MP’s words – a “revolution in the way we undertake energy efficiency improvements” has been launched in the UK. Did you hear the trumpet fanfare? The drums roll? The large scale promotion that was promised? No, us neither. There was a front page article in the Guardian’s Money section on Saturday …
Hmm… do the figures really stack up – personally I am starting to think people need their own plan on how to improve their homes, reduce their bills, add value and comfort… relying on a Government back scheme will once again be a red herring.
So, like much of the country everything slowed down for us over the Easter/Bank Holiday/Wedding fiesta that was the end of April, but it was back with all guns ablazing at the beginning of May, so sorry if I haven’t had time to update this blog as much as I would have liked. The conversion of the garage to a …
So, we come to week 8 and there is still so much to do, but we are certainly coming towards the final stretch. While much of the week has been finishing the air tightness layer in the living room, the new media wall and then plasterboard this area in order to make sure we are able to get the plasterer …
