All articles by Michael Willoughby – Page 27
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Drivers Jonas scoops sustainable supplier award from Home Office
BREAAM 'Excellent' building saves £6m in running costs over the life of the lease
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MPs get behind desert power scheme
Activists 'encouraged' by growing support for high risk and high gain network
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Cabinet Office Minister, Tom Watson, to head new sustainable procurement task force
Midlands MP charged with reversing government's appalling environmental record
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IES enters free DEC software market
Alternative to 'incomplete' ORCalc being developed by the Scottish firm.
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Want to offset your holiday flight?
Michael Willoughby explores the theory and practice behind offsetting. And he discovers wildly differing costs for a return flight to Malaga from the price of a latte to a hardback book.
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Government widens microgen certification scheme
BRE to share certification of green energy kite mark
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Slide show: Hammarby Sjostad
Our reporter went on one of the popular 'decision-maker' tours of the Swedish eco-development led by David Birkbeck of Design for Homes. These are the shots that he got.
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Persimmon suppliers told to cut price by 15% or lose work
Subcontractors may have their contracts retendered if they refuse to cut agreed contracts
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Xtreme self-build: Scrap Heap Challenge meets Grand Designs
Making a shed-cum-spare room from reclaimed items: get together a team of mates, pop to a woodland to find a few unloved trees, nose around some skips or a disused railway. Bit of edible paint, bit of copper guttering. What could be easier? An intrepid Finsbury Park couple found out ...
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Social housing may be excused from green targets
Housing Corporation admits homes bought from private developers may not meet code level three
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Wind turbines at Elephant still possible, says Southwark ...
... but they won't produce 'satisfactory' power replies BRE
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Zero-carbon houses cost up to £47,000 more to build
First government Code level six figures show varied extra budgets to achieve zero carbon for different housing types
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London wind turbine underperforms according to study
Elephant & Castle Proven unit produce just over a half of predicted energy during trial amounting to 150 tonnes of CO2
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But I've got a sustificate! A day in the life of a DEC trainee
Being trained as a Display Energy Certificate assessor isn't all fun and games, as our ¾«¶«Ó°ÊÓ reporter was to discover
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UK Greenhouse gas emissions drop 2% from 2006 to 2007
But country will miss 20% reduction targets, Government admits
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'Disconnected' eco-towns will fail, says report
Research looks to Europe for increasing the benighted project's luck
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MPs attack government's 'empty rhetoric' in delivering green offices
All-party report offers eight ways Brown could get back on the road
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Sustainability Now: Boards of Wisdom
There were truths spoken in jest, pleas for help and even a climate change denier chatting...
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HIPs awareness spending outstrips EPC and DEC budget
Poor customer awareness is leaving industry feeling left in the lurch
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Sustainability Now conference draws 600 in first morning
Free virtual show launched today on ¾«¶«Ó°ÊÓ's sustainability channel with presentations and interviews on range of green issues