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Grow Your Own Insulation 5 Feb 2011 | 03:15 am
Move over, Expanded Polystyrene (EPS); you are highly carbon-intensive to produce (462kg of CO2 per cubic metre) and non-biodegradable. With plastic and foam accounting for roughly 10% of global oil o...
A House within a House 28 Jan 2011 | 04:13 am
Here’s a really interesting idea; the University of Salford is building a house within a house. Their Centre for Sustainable Urban and Regional Futures (SURF) department is recreating an old-style (19...
Generating more vs. using less 26 Jan 2011 | 06:33 am
There’s a lot of talk out there about generating energy to meet our insatiable needs, and it seems to me it all dwarfs the real issue, which is how to use less energy. I don’t know about you, but this...
