Sustainability News – Page 107
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NewsLivingstone sets out latest green policies for new developments
Mayor's London Plan includes target for all developments to invest in decentralised energy systems
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Energy productivity can halve CO2 emissions, says report
McKinsey report focuses on vast potential of energy efficiency and abatement in cutting carbon, with domestic sector offering huge opportunity
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NewsVince Cable video exclusive
The Lib Dem shadow chancellor outlines his party's proposals for the upcoming budget, assesses the best way to make the existing stock of buildings efficient and offers an insight into his own eco-project
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NewsAtkins team sets up solar panel research station in Dubai
Architect Ronak Gawarwala leads team on testing panels in extreme temperatures
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NewsPlans for green police station revealed
£1.3m Cambridgeshire scheme boasts solar panels and 17.5m wind turbine
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NewsReplacing concrete
Will Jones examines current developments in technology that offer potential alternatives to the use of concrete
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NewsHoare Lea helps bring green angle to Warwick research lab
Warwick Digital Laboratory aims for BREEAM excellence with exposed thermal mass, under floor heating and sedum roof
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NewsDeutsche Bank starts Europe's biggest green office refurb
Work starts on £150m scheme to slash power and CO2 emissions by more than half at Frankfurt headquarters
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NewsLivingstone's on-site energy plans 'inefficient'
London First hits out at mayor for piecemeal approach to renewables and for ignoring the existing estate
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NewsWeekly Green Gauge Feb 15th
Some of the frutiest stories on the web this week were our bitter Valentine, up to the ears with Charles and the most complicated sustainable transport project since Boston's Big Dig.
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NewsLib Dems call for tax on energy firms for home improvements
Vince Cable, the Liberal Democrat shadow chancellor, has called for a one-off windfall tax on energy firms for improvements to existing homes.
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NewsPrime green
Here is a sneak preview of HTA Architects’ design for housebuilder Barratt’s zero-carbon housing development in Britain at Hanham Hall near Bristol.
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NewsSo what if it’s raining?
Housebuilders need to look beyond the dismal economic weather and make arrangements for the future if they are to deliver 3 million zero-carbon, cost-effective homes by 2020.
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NewsThink event assesses sustainability in a slowing market
Shadow Liberal Democrat chancellor Vince Cable and UK Green Building Council chief executive Paul King consider tough business and Government choices at Think Tank breakfast event
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British Land green boss moves to rival
Industrial REIT Segro has poached a Claudine Blamey to take on its newly created role of head of sustainability.
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NewsInsurance threat to homes built in floodplains
A third of Gordon Brown's planned 3 million new homes may be uninsurable warns Association of British Insurers
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Is Prince Charles igniting a civil war?
When is an eco house not an eco house? When Prince Charles builds one. Or so the boffins at the BRE would have us believe.
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NewsImage: Power behind 2012 Olympics revealed
The NORD Architecture-designed substation will be built from crushed materials from demolished buildings on site
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No technology 'magic bullet' for eco-homes, warns BRE
Latest research cautions for more reality-checks on eco-technologies for homes
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Cutbacks at WRAP
Material recycling firm makes 31 redundancies in a bid to save 25% in its annual £70m spending