Gas is very popular in domestic properties including those which are rented out by landlords. Indeed it is often recommended in landlords Energy Performance Certificates as a way to improve the energy efficiency of a property. However gas is a fossil fuel. It may be a cleaner fossil fuel but it is a fossil fuel nonetheless. If we are to fight climate change we need to … [Read more...] about Why landlords should avoid gas installations
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Ecotricity’s Bills into Mills
You can fight climate change with your energy bills. Green energy company Ecotricity has a unique model - not only do they only use green energy, but they also use the money they get from their customers to build new forms of green energy - wind turbines and solar energy parks. They have been doing it for years - and you can see on their website the impressive number of … [Read more...] about Ecotricity’s Bills into Mills
What is Passivhaus?
Passivhaus is a design standard for buildings where buildings are built to reduce energy use and carbon emissions. To explain here are two videos. The first is from the Passivhaus Trust in the UK: https://youtu.be/hsDVIt7T7nU The next video explains more about Passivhaus in 90 seconds: https://youtu.be/CasrjYhZB1M … [Read more...] about What is Passivhaus?
Can we have a Zero Carbon Britain?
The things you read in the newspapers and hear in the news make it sound so dire that you wonder whether there is actually anything that can be done to stop the impending crisis. So far as Britain is concerned, the Zero Carbon project from the Centre for Alternative Technology seems to think that we can. Here is the video that they have … [Read more...] about Can we have a Zero Carbon Britain?
Welcome to the Eco Landlords website
This is a worrying time. Going about our day to day lives and doing our day to day things is, we are learning, having an increasingly negative effect on our planet. Carbon emissions are starting to heat up the atmosphere resulting in higher temperatures and melting ice at the poles, which will in due course lead to rises in sea level The plastic that we use all the … [Read more...] about Welcome to the Eco Landlords website