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New Affordable Solar Energy eBooks Available Free

January 6th, 2010 · No Comments

Go-Green-Solar-Energy.com is pleased to announce a new collection of Affordable Solar Energy eBooks and resource library which was designed to assist newcomers to solar energy in finding the information and resources they need to begin to use affordable solar energy in their homes.
This information is designed to help people who wish to use solar energy [...]

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Keep Your Home Warm this Winter and Your Energy Bills Down

November 25th, 2009 · 1 Comment

It’s starting to feel a lot like winter. With cooler days and nights approaching, now is the best time to prepare your home for colder months. By taking a few steps to winterize your home ahead of time, you’ll be able to keep your energy bills lower and your house cozy and warm all season [...]

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Work starts on energy saving homes

January 21st, 2009 · No Comments

Work on energy saving homes that will have reduced fuel bills has started in Northamptonshire.
The 24 homes, which will be moved to the London borough of Hillingdon, will feature solar panels on their roofs that will generate electricity for communal areas.
The roofs of the homes at the Birchway development will also be covered in a [...]

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Traditional homes’ efficiency ‘can be improved’

December 10th, 2008 · 1 Comment

Energy efficiency can be improved and energy bills cut even in traditionally built homes, Historic Scotland has noted.
At its conference in Edinburgh last month a team from Glasgow Caledonian University reported a variety of measures owners of traditional homes can use to cut the heat loss through their windows.
Double glazing will cut heat loss through [...]

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More than 195,000 wind turbines to appear outside homes by 2020

November 25th, 2008 · No Comments

More than 195,000 wind turbines will spring up outside homes across Britain over the next 12 years, according to energy advisers, after the Government pledged to pay people for generating their own electricity.
A “feed-in tariff” will be introduced to ensure any household generating power through renewable power sources like wind, solar or biomass will be [...]

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Climate Change Could Force Millions From Homes

October 16th, 2008 · No Comments

Environmental damage such as desertification or flooding caused by climate change could force millions of peoples from their homes in the next few decades, experts said on Wednesday.
“All indicators show we are dealing with a major emerging global problem,” said Janos Bogardi, director of the UN University’s Institute on the Environment and Human Security in [...]

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Government urged to help homes go green

October 15th, 2008 · No Comments

The government must urgently begin improvements to make Britain’s 25m homes more energy efficient if it is to reduce the UK’s carbon footprint by 80% by 2050, a report says today.
The report, by the Green Building Council (GBC), says some homes are so environmentally harmful that they may have to be demolished. It also wants [...]

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Energy efficiency advert launched

September 21st, 2008 · No Comments

An advertising campaign encouraging householders to make steps to make their homes more energy efficient is to be launched today.
Following a rise in the number of people calling energy efficiency advice lines, the adverts, directed by This is England director Shane Meadows, are to air from tonight.
The adverts shot by Mr Meadows show a father [...]

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Energy efficient homes easier to let

September 20th, 2008 · No Comments

Making a home more energy efficient by installing measures such as insulation, double glazing and water conservation measures could increase its appeal to tenants.
According to a property insider, getting a high score on an energy performance certificate (EPC) could give a landlord the edge in getting tenants and securing their desired rent.
David Bexon, managing director [...]

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Sustainable Homes from Easy Domes

September 16th, 2008 · 1 Comment

Echoing the structures of Buckminster Fuller’s Geodesic Domes, Danish Architect Kári Thomsen and Engineer Ole Vanggaard have created Easy Domes, a series of quick assembly, low-energy homes! Following the success of the first Easy Dome home built in 1992 for the Greenland Society on The Faroe Islands, a number of dome-shaped cottages were erected as [...]

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