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The beginners guide to… creating a low carbon home
Ruth Styles
24th April, 2012
From reducing energy consumption to a full-scale retrofit, Ruth Styles explains how to make your low carbon dream a reality more...
Are straw bales the future of sustainable building?
Mark Briggs
20th April, 2012
Straw bale is a low impact, low carbon building material making strides towards mainstream acceptance. So is it about time we took notice? Mark Briggs reports more...
Beat the heat: how a new type of eco home is helping tackle global warming
Paul Miles
3rd April, 2012
As climate change speeds up, the question of how to adapt our homes to hotter temperatures is becoming increasingly important. Now, a pioneering project on the island of Tenerife has been set up to address those concerns. Paul Miles reports more...
Eco cement: the world's favourite building material gets a green-over
Paul Miles
14th February, 2012
Cement manufacturers are among the world’s biggest polluters and produce more emissions per capita than aviation. So how can you ensure that the cement you use isn’t wrecking the planet? more...Roundwood timber framing: the greener way to build
Maddy Harland
19th October, 2010
Using our native softwoods and 'in the round' construction, this innovative technique results in beautiful buildings with high environmental credentials more...
Tesco and B&Q join interest in 'Green Deal' to insulate homes
Mark Jansen
10th January, 2011
The UK government plans to get companies to pay to insulate energy inefficient homes - recovering the money from savings on the householder's energy bill more...
Seoul: on course to be one of the world's greenest cities?
Anna Sheldrick
30th November, 2010
Seoul, host of this year's G20, is well on the way to achieving its goal of becoming one of the world's most eco-friendly cities. But, as Anna Sheldrick reports, there may be room for improvement elsewhere in South Korea more...
PassivHaus construction: the future of UK housebuilding?
Laura Sevier
22nd October, 2010
German design, British location, tropical climate. Super-efficient PassivHaus construction makes for warmer homes and lower energy bills. So why aren't we all building this way? more...
The Government has seriously miscalculated the cost of green homes
David Thorpe
9th August, 2010
There's a lot of nonsense talked, bought and done when it comes to eco-retrofitting houses. David Thorpe's new book sorts the wheat from the chaff, and challenges some green orthodoxies... more...
The community-owned, timber-framed, self-heating village shop
Maddy Harland
26th January, 2010
In an economic climate where village shops are closing, woodsman Ben Law has helped his village open a new shop with a difference more...
We need a citizens' housing revolution
Stephen Hill
13th January, 2010
Self-builders are no longer a niche segment of society: they are industrious, skilled, innovative individuals who should be helped to create vital, sustainable communities more...
Building houses with straw bales
Mark Anslow
31st December, 2009
A house built with straw could cost as little as £70,000 to build - and some are still standing after 140 years. Barbara Jones' fantastic book Building with Straw Bales reveals all you need to know more...
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Toronto introduces green roof by-law
Ecologist
19th June, 2009
City legislators in Toronto, Canada, have stipulated that half the surface area of roofs on new large buildings are to be seeded as green roofs. more...
House of Bamboo
Laura Sevier
1st April, 2007
It’s used for kitchen wares, flooring, furniture and textiles. It’s natural, fast-growing and versatile. Is bamboo the green gold of furnishing materials? more...
A green building debate
Mark Hoare and Bill Dunster
1st June, 2009
Two views on form and function in the green building debate that must be sensitive to the local environment and responsive to the local character, cultural diversity and ecology of its place without diluting its uniqueness.more...
Green Construction or Pyramids of Waste
news
28th February, 2007
36 of the UK's leading construction companies, including British Land, Land Lease, HBOS and Barratt Homes, have launched a UK Green Building Council that will aim for "zero carbon, zero water and zero waste", according to its chairman Peter Rogers.more...
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