Is this the U.K.’s greenest housing estate, this vision of snug, low energy Passivhaus life in the country? What is believed to be the largest Passivhaus development to date has been given the go-ahead. Councillors on Herefordshire Council voted in favour of the estate of 150…
Apple stores are some of the most enticing retail outlets in the High Street and shopping mall. They sell what is surely the world’s most seductive range of technological items affordable by the general public. You may just like to wander in for the cheerful…
On the day when serious doubts are raised about the economic and environmental case behind a plan to build a £25bn tidal barrage spanning the Severn Estuary, another, much smaller, scheme not many miles away on the same body of water n South Wales moved…
We watch Country File and Springwatch and many an informative documentary on landscape and rural life. So it shouldn’t be hard for us to open up to, and understand, a not so well-known area of France. One that is green and pure and wide and…
The Hay Festival is an appropriate place for a lightbulb moment. I was at a talk where green guru Julia Hailes was talking about converting her old farmhouse and making it as environmentally efficient and green as possible. I wrote down lots of things (not…
Do you know how much electricity you used watching TV last night, and how much it cost you? And what was your bill for mowing the lawn, and boiling the water for three cups of coffee and two pots of tea? Any clue how much…