With the climate crisis still ongoing, many people and businesses are thinking about ways they can help to reverse it. Global Footsteps is an ‘educational charity which links grassroots communities around the world ‘. Based in Cheltenham, the group has played its part and had retrofitting carried out. Global Footsteps trustee, Alison Crane, discussed the […]
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Is housing the root cause of the climate crisis?
With the UK housing industry accounting for 27% of the UK’s carbon dioxide emissions, attention turns to what we can do to reduce this figure, while still keeping costs low. The BedZED project has already proven that it’s achievable, albeit expensive. For those of you who aren’t aware, BedZED is the UK’s first major zero-carbon […]
Is housing the root cause of the climate crisis?
The environment is at the forefront of people’s minds, and with global temperature slowly rising, people are asking what can be done to sort this problem out? Later on today, Branch will be publishing an article focusing on this very problem, taking into account voices from the UK Green Building Council and BedZED (the UK’s […]
Environmentally Sustainable Housing – Will it help?
The UK housing industry accounts for 30% of the UK’s total energy use, and 27% of the UK’s carbon dioxide emissions. With this, I decided to investigate whether there is something that we can do to solve this, and make housing more environmentally sustainable. I looked into whether these improvements will be worth the money […]