LIST OF LINKS
Websites on what you can do to improve your house to save money and reduce CO2 emissions
There is the energy saving trust with masses of accessible information and links:
www.energysavingtrust.org.uk/
This is a summary of good principles on how to maintain and improve your house’s environmental impact:
www.aecb.net/factsheet.php
and this one goes through some of the most effective things you can do to your house to save CO2:
And this has a neat summary of the cost savings for each measure taken and the corresponding reduction in CO2 as a result:
www.blewbury.co.uk/energy/cost.htm
And this newspaper article has many ideas of what you could do with your house to improve its carbon footprint:
www.independent.co.uk/life-style/house-and-home/property/20-ways-to-go-green-at-home-463438.html
an introduction to low energy house design:
www.lowenergyhouse.com/index.html
A great book which gives you ideas about your personal CO2 footprint - you can find out about it at this address:
Other eco building retrofit projects
Oxford 1930’s eco house – with masses of links and information which means I do not have to repeat it in my project!
www.theyellowhouse.org.uk/
Carshalton
www.parityprojects.com/
Nottingham
Camden
www.sd-commission.org.uk/communitiessummit/show_case_study.php/00230.html
Brighton
Oxford
www.sageoxford.org.uk/ecohouse.htm
Technical stuff
I would suggest searching the following for discussion on any green building topic, some of it quite detailed and technical:
www.greenbuildingforum.co.uk/
There is also this great website which suggests and compares different materials and looks at their overall eco rating:
Apart from the many eco specialist suppliers, and sources for recycled materials (eg architectural salvage merchant in Burgess Hill, the recycled wood outlet in Brighton), there are two chains worth looking at:
B and Q are probably the greenest of the big chains and are advertising themselves as offering
alternative eco materials and sustainably sourced timber. I think they are better than some.
Covers, who operate in the south, have built an eco centre at Chichester and have plans to provide similar displays at some other stores www.covers.biz/details.asp?ID=251
And last but not least, I must mention Transition Towns and all the people who are trying to find positive solutions to the challenges of climate change and peak oil. Do join in, everyone is welcome!
The Open Energy Saving House Weekend this year 19th/20th June 2010
and the Open Eco House event that we held last year:
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