The BBC News website features a series of photographs of life in a eco-friendly Celtic-style roundhouse. Tony Wrench and Jane Faith built the roundhouse 9 years ago in Pembrokeshire, and live a low impact life in it. The house is made of wood, turf, straw and recycled materials. You can see the photographs and learn …
For Anne Summers, going green started with the purchase of a set of Eco Balls and the delivery of some council recycling bins. Before she knew it, she’d accidentally started an online shop selling all those hard to find supplies for making your own, simple cleaning products that are kinder to the environment. Anne launched …
As posted at the Eco Street forum by ECO TV: Is your garden more rubbish dump than compost heap? Are you a green god/goddess in the kitchen and eco-disaster in the garden? Do you ever wonder why you never see any wildlife in your own back garden? We are looking for people from the South …
We’re a little late on take-up with this, but never late than never. It’s Energy Efficiency Week this week (it started on Monday), a national campaign in the UK to bring attention to saving energy, money and the environment. With homes contributing 28% of all carbon emissions in the UK, and the UK top of …
Thousands of American homes and buildings will open their doors to the public today (7th Oct 2006) to give everyone the opportunity to experience solar power, solar heating, cooling, and hot-water, wind power, daylighting, and green building technologies. This is a chance to get first-hand advice from homeowners who are already taking advantage of renewable …
It’s fine and well banging on about making our homes more eco-friendly, but it can seem a daunting tast, especially when you don’t know where to start. Take an existing home, with average insulation, the usual bog-standard energy supply and lots of waste going to landfill, and turn it around. This special report from the …
I like the idea of popping down to the hardware shop to pick up some organic compost, a new pair of wellies and wind turbine. Ecologically, installing some sort of micro-powergeneration seems to be the right thing to do, but most of us also have to be practical about finances. So it’s good news that …
Wondering where all the green homes are? Now there’s a directory to help you find them. Vivavi’s new Modern Green Living Home Directory promises to help users “design, build, remodel, furnish or find a green home.” The directory features green residential communities in the US, Canada and around the world, and also includes a green …
The Association for Environment-Conscious Building has put forward its new CarbonLite programme in the hopes that it will be adopted by architects and builders as best practice, or perhaps the government would consider including it within building regulations. As it stands, CarbonLite (“carbon literate” design) is a voluntary sustainable building programme with bronze, silver, gold …
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