All Sustainability articles – Page 93
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First carbon-negative residential development breaks ground
National Grid to take excess power from 172 homes
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Downturn will hit green gains in housing
Recession is already leading to reduced demand for sustainability in housing, reveals survey
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Conservatives propose £6,500 eco-grants for homeowners
Tory 'green' paper includes £1bn investment in national grid to enable homeowners to sell energy from domestic renewables
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Green Tape: Sustainability regulation
To keep up with environmental regulations, contractors must build sustainability into their contracts
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Government moots SAP levy
The government is considering introducing a levy on domestic Energy Performance Certificates to pay for the expansion of the system used to assess the energy efficiency of houses
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Greenpeace's John Sauven: can we be friends?
John Sauven, Greenpeace’s executive director is a suave, pragmatic, political insider. Which means he’ll be happy to work with the industry on plans for more runways and reactors, right? Er, not exactly…
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Eco-terraces: Urban jungle
Eco-terraces are the next big thing in rooftop developments – but, says Stephen Kennett, it pays to have green fingers. Where’s Alan Titchmarsh when you need him?
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Paul King: The carbon crunch
It’s a global crisis, and it’s getting grimmer by the day, but this one we might actually be able to do something about… Paul King explains why sustainability is still the biggest issue of 2009
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Sheep vs grass: The best and the worst eco-ideas
With all great movements come fresh ways of thinking – some good, some, frankly, not so good. Roxane McMeeken asked five sustainability experts to name their favourite green ideas and those that they would send straight to the recycling plant
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Developers fear becoming green energy suppliers
Survey reveals that a third of firms expect to become responsible for renewable energy generation
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Big ambitions: Defra's Alnwick HQ
When designers began working on Defra’s offices in Alnwick, they thought a BREEAM ‘excellent’ rating an exciting enough challenge. But then BRE went and introduced ‘outstanding’…
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Plastic lobby wins row over wooden windows advert
The Advertising Standards Authority has upheld a complaint that an advert for wooden windows misleadingly implied that plastic windows were more environmentally damaging
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Revolutionary breathable insulation system gets £1m funding boost
Energyflo's developer is given £948,000 to help bring air-permeable dynamic insulation module to market
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Government 'acted too slowly' on landfill waste
NAO warns that slow reaction to EU directive means councils could face massive penalties for missing targets
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Tesco's first eco-store has cardboard signs
Store has a carbon footprint 70% smaller than 2006 shop
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Bond Bryan gets go-ahead for Rotherham college
Architect gains planning approval for £70m new-build art and technology college in town centre
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79% ignore EPC recommendations
Energy certificates are failing to kickstart efficiency improvements in buildings, according to a joint survey by ºÃÉ«ÏÈÉúTV and the Chartered Institution of ºÃÉ«ÏÈÉúTV Services Engineers
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UK's biggest current zero-carbon housing scheme unveiled
Barratt site in Bristol will feature 195 homes meeting level six of the Code for Sustainable Homes
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Nordic firm develops world's longest-lasting turbine
But experts question windmill's efficacy