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A mini power station in every building
Posted by Cathy Debenham on 15th August 2008 at 10:17 am
Renewable energy is at the heart of new proposals to solve the triple crunch of the credit crisis, climate change and high oil prices. The goal of ‘every building a power station’ is just one of the ideas outlined in the recently published. A Green New Deal. The proposals put forward by t…
Posted in: General, Energy efficiency
Feed-in tariff likely to boost microgeneration
Posted by Cathy Debenham on 10th November 2008 at 10:44 am
How lovely (and how rare) to be applauding an announcement from the Government. Not only has the newly appointed energy and climate change secretary, Ed Miliband, just committed the UK to the 80 per cent cuts in greenhouse gases by 2050 that scientists say we need, but he’s also promised a feed-…
Posted in: General, Solar electricity, Wind turbines
Bring some heart into renewable energy
Posted by Cathy Debenham on 12th January 2009 at 4:31 pm
I’m fascinated by the psychology of how we spend money. Is it our heads or our hearts that rule? While we probably like to think of ourselves as rational, logical human beings – and we even sometimes spend lots of time researching things to back up our beliefs – my feeling is that the he…
Posted in: General
Insulating every home relatively cheap says Stern
Posted by Cathy Debenham on 31st December 2008 at 12:26 pm
Insulating every home in the UK would be relatively cheap compared to what the Government has spent shoring up the banking system, according to Lord Stern. In a festive change to the normal BBC Radio 4's Today programme agenda of haranguing politicians, guest editor Jarvis Cocker took a look at how …
Posted in: Energy efficiency
Great British Refurb gets the thumbs up
Posted by Cathy Debenham on 21st April 2009 at 2:34 pm
Generating your own renewable energy, increased energy efficiency and whole-house eco-makeovers received the thumbs up from the UK public yesterday, according to new research. The survey aimed to establish what is needed for the public to take action to install renewable energy and generation and en…
Posted in: General, Energy efficiency
Ban power showers?
Posted by Barry Nutley on 11th April 2009 at 10:15 am
Banning power showers was the subject of a debate on Jeremy Vine's show on Radio 2 last Monday. It prompted many a response from listeners. The facts surrounding our lack of water in many parts of the UK are reasonably well documented (including on previously blog posts on this site), so the idea is…
Posted in: Rainwater harvesting
Stupid, or not stupid?
Posted by Cathy Debenham on 17th March 2009 at 9:20 am
I went to the premiere of The Age of Stupid on Sunday night. That's a first for me, having never been to a premiere before. But I didn't walk down the green carpet in Leicester Square - just a trip to Exeter Picture House - where we watched what was going on in London, before the simultaneous showin…
Posted in: General
Low carbon UK is well down the pecking order
Posted by Cathy Debenham on 17th September 2009 at 11:35 am
How much does the government really care about shifting the UK to a low carbon economy? Not a lot is the only conclusion I can come to from its spending figures. Yesterday's Guardian published a wonderfully simple, easy to read, chart called the definitive atlas of UK government spending, created…
Posted in: General, Energy efficiency
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