Birmingham City University has become one of ten UK universities to be awarded the EcoCampus Platinum award. It underlines the university’s achievements in improving environmental performance and practice. EcoCampus is the leading national environment management...
The Centre for Sustainable Energy (CSE) is to help community groups to ‘engage actively with Green Deal and stimulate low carbon housing refurbishment’. This is also reflected in CSE’s latest changes to its PlanLoCal project and website (see links below). Green...
Green Deal, the government-backed initiative aimed to reduced the majority of household carbon emissions at least by 2050, seems under seriod pressure at the present time, according to reports in today's newspapers. Apparently a group of senior Tory ministers is...
Nick Clegg the Deputy Prime Minister has announced that at least £540 million of the government’s home energy efficiency programme - worth £1.3bn per year - will be targeted at helping the poorest. In a speech he said: “We will be requiring the energy companies to...
The Royal Institute for British Architects (RIBA) has raised concerns that significant Green Deal obstacles need to be resolved for it to work in practice. Anna Scott-Marshall, RIBA head of external affairs, said: “To stop it failing at the first hurdle the government...