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Energy Efficiency not achieving results
Despite a push for more sustainable lifestyles through green programmes such as those for energy efficiency a forthcoming special issue of the 'Building Research and Information' journal, researchers from the Carbon Reduction in Buildings (CaRB) Consortium present new evidence on how people use energy in buildings. It suggests that installing energy efficiency measures, such as double glazing, insulation and energy efficient boilers, seems to encourage householders to turn up the heat, leave the heating on for longer and heat more rooms.
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The Three E's: excellent
Former US business leader and US environmental convert, Chris Martenson has been in the UK doing the rounds of conferences, seminar and the like. Last week he met with politicians and business leaders as well as a turn at SCVO's The Gathering and a lecture at Stirling University organised by Going Carbon Neutral Stirling to talk energy, environment and economy.
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Energy Efficiency Design Awards 2010
The deadline for the current round of the Energy Efficiency Design Awards falls on 19 April 2010. The Awards is a £1 million fund to bring
together designers, construction and manufacturing, housing
associations, councils or community groups to create the best energy
efficiency solutions for Scotland.
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Granny knew best
Whilst loads of us are out there trying to find the lowest energy consuming device to dry our clothes in Scotland, your granny probably did better with the low tech solution, the pulley . Surely this should come with an A+ rating at least.
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sustainable Glasgow
Sustainable Glasgow last week launched a report into how the city aims to become one of Europe’s most sustainable cities in the next 10 years. The report is the culmination of a year-long study by Sustainable Glasgow, a consortium led by the University of Strathclyde.
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Cut Carbon, Cut Costs
Small and medium-sized firms are being encouraged to take advantage of a free online tutorial aimed at helping them improve their energy efficiency. Government-funded environmental agency the Carbon Trust’s new Cut Carbon, Cut Costs video tutorial offers a whole host of handy hints on slashing energy costs and saving money.
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Biofuel - doing it yourself-Updated
You can make up to 2500 litres of biofuel from things like cooking oil and not have to pay the government any duty. Mind you, you have to do it yourself with one set of equipment, no sharing and no helping others.
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More Power to Your Elbow?
What picture springs to your mind when someone says the words 'renewable energy'?
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E.ON Sustainable Energy Fund
E.On , the power and gas generating and distributing company, has announced that the next application deadline for its Sustainable Energy Fund is 2 April 2010. The E.ON Sustainable Energy Fund offers grants of up to £20,000 to community groups and not for profit organisations who wish to consider and implement sustainable energy projects in their buildings.
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Scottish Company wins Carbon Trust Award
Scottish technology developer Artemis Intelligent Power, based in Edinburgh, has been named overall winner of this year’s Carbon Trust Innovation Awards by an independent panel of renowned clean technology-experts.
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Be a bright spark
Christine's Weekly Tip 9 - As we all know inefficient light bulbs are being phased out over the
next couple of years and you won’t find 100w bulbs or greater in any of
the shops. The government are presently working together with energy
companies and retailers to manufacture energy saving light bulbs which
will meet the demand.
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Solar powered Christmas Lights
It might be getting a bit late for Christmas but there are some who have been saving energy by not providing enough additional lighting in their street to illuminate a small village for a year. For those who must try solar lights..in Scotland..whatever next.
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Low power shower
Christine's Weekly Tip 8 - Take a Low Power Shower. Are you prepared to take the power out of your shower – shorter showers under a gentle stream of water saves water and electricity. – I read with interest your recent shower power survey – very informative, seems us girls don’t take so long after all in the shower.
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Getting plugged in
The UK Government is inviting cities and businesses to join together to bid for £30 million which will help fund the installation of charging points on streets, car parks and in commercial, retail and leisure facilities. This initiative – called Plugged-In Places – will support the development of between three and six electric car cities and regions across the UK which will act as trailblazers for electric car technology.
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Wrap up your home
Christine's Weekly Tip No 6 - Insulate your home ... it is getting colder after all and it's a no brainer. Did you realise homes in Britain lose enough heat through their walls and roofs to keep three million families warm?
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Shower power surveys
The older generation takes around 5 minutes less in the shower than youngsters aged 18 to 24, research launched by Waterwise reveals.
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National Campaign Warns of Winter Misery for Millions
A charity campaign launched today has warned of the misery faced by millions of people across the UK as they are forced to choose between heating their homes or saving money as Britain’s recession continues to bite.
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The End of the World is Nigh
Well not quite the end of the world, but perhaps the world as we know it. Figures released on the amount of oil remaining have raised serious questions over the 'when' rather than the 'if' we run out.
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Winners of the EAS EnergySavers Award 2009
Projects across Scotland that have helped people in lower income or disadvantaged communities to make energy savings in their homes have been recognised by the EAS EnergySavers Award 2009.
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It's blowin' in the wind
Christine's Weekly Tip No 3 - Switching to an energy supplier that generates power through renewable sources like the sun and the wind? Help fight climate change, choose green electricity and potentially save yourself some cash!
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Boil less, freeze more
Christine’s Weekly Tip 2 - boil less, freeze more.
We all like our cups of tea and coffee. If all you need is one cup’s
worth of water don’t boil up anymore, it’s a waste of money, the kettle
uses up lots of energy.
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Energy Saving Week
Energy Saving Week is launched today, 19 October 2009. An annual campaign run by the Energy Saving Trust (EST), hopefully it acts as another prod in the direction of reducing our energy demand. The theme of the week is 'Waste', which implies we still haven't learnt th elessons of the previous 12 annual weeks.
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Carbon reduction: a risky business?
The business sector holds a vast weight of responsibility when it comes to reducing the UK's carbon emissions. But what do companies think themselves?
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Bye Bye Standby
Christine's Green Tips - No1, this weeks green tip is about the use of standby on all those electronic appliances around the home
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Business Supports being restructured across the UK
Changes in the business support programmes for resource efficiency in England mean that there is a departure from funding and supporting individual companies.
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Recession reduces CO2
The world recession has caused the steepest drop in CO2 emissions for 40 years, according to the International Energy Agency's chief IEA economist Fatih Birol.
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New Business Resource Efficiency Research
Just published by the Sustainable Development Research Network is a new report into business and resource efficiency in the UK.The report calls for more to be done to engage small and medium sized
enterprises (SMEs) with resource efficiency and suggests that
intermediary organisations, such as banks, need to promote the agenda
further.
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Women are faster in the shower than we think
New research for an educational campaign spearheaded by Kriss Akabusi shows that despite the age old myth that women take ages in the shower, on average women spend just 39 seconds longer in the shower than men.
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Green heroes awards
If you feel that your deserve recognition or you know someone else who is a bit of a hero in the area of all things green and energy effcient then these awards might be of interest.
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Renewables grid connection consultation
Red tape restricting renewable energy projects from connecting to the national grid is set to be relaxed. Energy and Climate Secretary Ed Miliband has opened a consultation – Improving Grid Access - into new rules that will revamp the way power plants get connected to the UK’s grid.
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Top Four Tips for Eco-Driving
Apply these eco-driving tips and encounter an overall fuel saving of around 15% - helps your pocket, helps combat climate change too..
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Funding for home energy
Access funding through your energy supplier to increase the efficiency or your property or install renewable technology.
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EAS EnergySavers Award 2009
Energy-saving projects across Scotland are being invited to enter the EAS EnergySavers Award 2009 and celebrate their contribution to combatting climate change. Organised by fuel poverty charity Energy Action Scotland and supported for the eighth year by eaga , the Awards have a first prize of £1,500 and a second prize of £1,000.
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Host a Green Communities Training Course
This year the Energy Saving Trust (EST) Green Communities service (formally CAfE) is giving community groups the opportunity to host their own Green Communities course. By hosting a training, Green Communities will be able to provide your group with a bespoke course enabling you to improve your knowledge of energy and develop a community energy project. Best of all it’s free of charge!
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Energy efficiency paint
It sounds too good to be true these 'invented by NASA technologies'. Especially one that could help climate change but......
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Home insulation coming to some of you
Be on the look out for people baring climate change tackling gifts of insulation and other measures in a few select places in Scotland.
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Energy saving loans
The Carbon Trust relaxed its rules on who can apply for 0% loans for energy efficiency measures on 29 June 2009. All SME's in Scotland can apply for their share of the £100million expected to be loaned by the UK Government over the next two years.
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£5,000 household energy bills by 2020
The consumer website uSwitch.com is reporting that their research shows that household energy bills could rise to £5,000 a year by 2020. Last summer everyone was very aware of increasing prices, the global recssion and falling energy prices seems to have allowed this dramatic reality to fall in to the background.
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Retrofit for the Future
The Technology Strategies Board has opened a competition that will support companies try out innovative whole-house solutions to address the problem of energy inefficiency in our social housing stock. The competition is open to all UK companies, but with the twin challenges of some of the poorest housing and the coldest weather in the UK, Scotland needs to be well represented.
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Renewable Heat: It's about time
Scottish Renewables, the industry representative body, has just published a report into renewable energy and heat. About time that someone said something important on what is our main use for energy.
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Funding for energy efficiency
Are you or somebody you know spending more than 10% of your income on keeping warm? If so, then you are in fuel poverty and there are grants available to help.
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Get insulated
The government might want you to do it..but that's not a good reason to do it. Save money you idiot...that's a better reason. Your children and your childrens children will thank you.
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Low energy spotlights
Those spotlights in your kitchen and bathroom..ever wondered why it is so hot in there...loads of energy. Reduce you consumption and save money with LED bulbs instead.
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The winds of change in Fintry
The people of Fintry are reaping the benefits from having the vision and committment to go through with the development of a community owned wind turbine.
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Biomass the real future for renewables
Biomass is tipped to be the renewables technology to have the biggest impact in reducing co2 emissions and contribute to the UK's climate change challenge.
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Those darned clock changes
Many question the need to change the clocks twice a year. Started in 1916, its original purpose was to save fuel and money.
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Blue Beauty
Here’s an interesting wee presentation showing a series of NASA satellite images of our very own home. The presentation has accompanying music which although wouldn’t be described as “out of this world”, pretty much helps set the scene.
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Floating windfarms given the go-ahead
Offshore windfarms might be the answer to the prayer of many concerned about the current batch of landbased turbines being a blot on the landscape. A 5MW pilot project is now underway.
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Jobs in a greening economy
The concept of green jobs so abruptly dumped by the Scottish Government still finds a focus elsewhere in the world with a meeting of 20 nations in Italy. From leading thinking to also ran..yet again.
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It's easier than you think- being green
They have made it easier to be green, living every day. Follow the continuing adventures of the Strawbridges.
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