Greening your home can save you energy and money as well as making it healthier and lowering its carbon footprint
… Ecologist guide to greening your home Laura Sevier | 2nd March 2010 Ethical … Energy Lighting Eco Paints green-your-home.jpg Greening your home can save you energy and money as well as …
Anne Power, Professor of Social Policy Housing and Social Exclusion at the London School of Economics, on why nearly all homeowners can afford to insulate properly, and how to save energy on a budget
… recipe for 80 per cent energy savings in your home Matilda Lee | 3rd March 2010 Comment … London School of Economics, on why nearly all homeowners can afford to insulate properly, … Lee: How big are the energy costs of our homes? Anne Power : Massive, in three …
From reducing energy consumption to a full-scale retrofit, Ruth Styles explains how to make your low carbon dream a reality
… The beginners guide to… creating a low carbon home Ruth Styles | 24th April 2012 Ethical Living Green Deal Retrofit Home Carbon Energy Saving Building … business. The concept is simple: improve your home’s energy efficiency and you’ll save on …
This gallery of images shows a prototype solar powered, zero carbon house designed by students at Nottingham University
… Powered Energy Efficient Zero Carbon Eco Home … modern, super-efficient, solar powered family home of the future look like? Anyone visiting … a house. Known as the Nottingham H.O.U.S.E (Home Optimising the Use of Solar Energy), it …
I know that I should avoid compost containing peat, but what is the most environmentally friendly alternative that I can buy?
R Townsend, by email
… The obvious answer is to turn your hand to home composting. Yet the majority of us will … This is because what we can make ourselves at home is considered a soil improver, not a … 2009 For ethical and sustainable suppliers of Home and Garden goods and services check out …
The idea has yet to catch on in the UK but in Scandinavia, where the very first 'nature house' was built in the 1970s, the idea of surrounding your existing home with what is essentially a 'greenhouse' to create a living home is one that is catching on. PAUL MILES explores the eco benefits
… 1970s, the idea of surrounding your existing home with what is essentially a 'greenhouse' to create a living home is one that is catching on. PAUL MILES … if someone completely encased their entire home in glass? If the British love of all …
What’s the point of zero-carbon homes that aren’t fit for habitation? There is more to sustainable building than meeting Government targets, argues Dr David Strong
… Dr David Strong | 20th June 2008 Comment Home Carbon Zero Carbon Housing Houses Green … Panels.jpg What’s the point of zero-carbon homes that aren’t fit for habitation? There is … and ambitious plan to ensure all our new homes are zero carbon by 2016 and new …
Stressed out and living for the weekend? Breaking free may be easier than you thought...
… time to change your lifestyle. Work from home With more than 3.3 million people home-working, the benefits of home-based work include: the use of one …
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...
… has seriously miscalculated the cost of green homes David Thorpe | 9th August 2010 Comment … and challenges some green orthodoxies... Our homes are responsible for 60 per cent of EU … energy use, and around 80 per cent of the homes we will inhabit in 2050 are here now. So …
Home brewing need not produce unpalatable dross. With this simple guide, you can use your gluts of marrows and pears to create cheap-and-cheerful signature wines
… Living Green Living Making Your Own Wine Home Brew Self Sufficient Grow Your Own Andy … Marrows make a 'rather palatable' wine Home brewing need not produce unpalatable … two myths that always arise when it comes to home brewing. The first is that you need a lot …
Angela Merkel’s decision to dispense with nuclear power has left environmentalists around the world exploring alternatives. Henry Gass weighs up the options
… 2011 Ethical Living Renewables Nuclear Power Home Solar Wind Biomass Green Living Science … heating options. So what does this mean for homeowners? Home heating accounts for 13 per cent of the …
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
… Beat the heat: how a new type of eco home is helping tackle global warming Paul Miles | 3rd April 2012 Ethical Living Home Bioclimactic Architecture Green Living … speeds up, the question of how to adapt our homes to hotter temperatures is becoming …
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
… celebrated self-builder began to build his home by the side of Walden Pond in the woods … about sustainable living and ideal homes. He was as irritating as many of his … regulated business of building a sustainable home today – everyone except the person for …
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?
… 22nd October 2010 Ethical Living Green Living Home PassivHaus Architect Building Energy … PassivHaus Institute Heat Ventilation House Home Solar Photovoltaic Derry Dale Yorkshire … PassivHaus construction makes for warmer homes and lower energy bills. So why aren't we …
There’s more to an energy efficient home than good insulation; everything from radiators to windows can play their part. Ruth Styles explains how to make your home a greener place to be
… Ruth Styles | 16th May 2012 Ethical Living Home Blinds Energy Saving Radiators Windows … There’s more to an energy efficient home than good insulation; everything from … part. Ruth Styles explains how to make your home a greener place to be Energy-saving …
A growing number of homeowners are taking the green initiative. Laura Sevier reports
… Archive_219.jpg A growing number of homeowners are taking the green initiative. … closer inspection that their identity as ‘eco homes’ become apparent. When people think of eco homes‚ most think of the ultra-modern. But …
From great public transport to carbon reduction initiatives, the UK’s towns and cities are making strides towards becoming greener places to live. Rebecca Campbell takes a closer look at the most impressive
… Campbell | 30th March 2012 Ethical Living Home Cities Moving Right Moves Green Living Society Forum For The Future Home Buying Property Property Search … Move , 800,000 people are planning to move home this year. Along with finding out where …
Insulating your home will save energy and money. This simple guide will show you where to start and what material to use
… Wrap up your home Laura Sevier | 1st March 2010 Ethical … wearing protective clothing Insulating your home will save energy and money. This simple … 50 per cent of all heat loss in an average home escapes through the walls and roof …
One family's journey to turn a draughty, turn-of-the-century terrace into a snug paragon of eco efficiency
… Turning our Victorian terrace into an ecohome: part one Sue Wheat | 29th April 2010 … into a snug paragon of eco efficiency Ecohome envy. That's what I've had for a very … 1.2m houses by 2015. The Government's Warm Homes, Greener Homes strategy, released this …
Green design doesn't have to mean scrimping on aesthetics; as George Blacksell discovered, combining style with sustainability is easily achieved
… Top 10...eco design for home George Blacksell | 2nd September 2011 … Living Eco Design London Design Festival Homes Interiors Sustainability Recycling Green … hopefully convince the sceptics that green homeware really can be chic. From Ross …
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
… rural waste product and use it to build a home that is not only highly insulated and … friend some more intelligent answers. Future homes The book (images from which are … She has a keen grasp of what owning a home in the UK means - a working-life saddled …
‘If we could think locally, we would take far better care of things than we do now. The right local questions and answers will be the right global ones. The Amish question, "What will this do for our community?" tends toward the right answer for the world.’ Wendell Berry
… nearest source of electrical power to your home? 6 What time did the sun rise this … on a dollar a day alive? 13 When was your home built, who built it and where did the … from? 14 What was on the site before your home was built there? 15 What is the name of …
According to the Energy Saving Trust, the average UK household spends more than £870 per year on fuel and power, and produces around six tonnes of CO². £300 of this cost (and around two tonnes of CO²) could be saved by being more energy efficient.
… Six Home Energy Saving Tips Laura Sevier | 1st … more energy efficient. 1. Lofts and walls UK homes lose enough heat through roofs and walls to heat around three million homes a year. Nearly 50 per cent of all …
Sue Wheat thought a wood-burning stove was the greenest way to heat her house until a chat with authors, Nick Grant and Alan Clarke, made her think again. The biggest crisis of her eco-refurb so far? You bet it was!
… Turning our Victorian Terrace into an Eco-Home part seven - Heating Sue Wheat | 7th February 2011 Ethical Living Eco-homes Refurbishment Wood Stoves Fuel Carbon … time to think about green ways to heat our home. We chose a Stovax multi-fuel stove, …