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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…

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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-…

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Insulating every home relatively cheap says Stern

Posted by Cathy Debenham on 31st December 2008 at 12:26 pm

Insulating every home relatively cheap says Stern

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 …

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Low carbon UK is well down the pecking order

Posted by Cathy Debenham on 17th September 2009 at 11:35 am

Low carbon UK is well down the pecking order

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…

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