Sustainability News – Page 56
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NewsJust 10 days to nominate your green guru
The deadline is looming for nominations for the title of Building's green guru 2009
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NewsBoris offers residents free 'carbon makeovers'
Mayor says 10,000 homes could benefit from £9.5m cash for energy saving measures such as loft and cavity wall insulation
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NewsGovernment names 10 nuclear sites
Sizewell in Suffolk among the sites nominated for nuclear development in draft documents
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NewsGreen light for UK's first zero-landfill energy park
Energy minister wants cutting-edge combination of recycling centre and biomass power plant at Peterborough to be first of many
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NewsHospitals face 'huge penalties' under carbon scheme
Carbon Reduction Commitment could heavily penalise public bodies that have little scope for further energy savings
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NewsBuilding and NES launch commercial EPC index
Initiative aims to tackle problem that 75% of commercial builds are illegally marketed without an EPC
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NewsRogers visits green city in Gulf to help promote UK firms
Richard Rogers visited Foster + Partners’ Masdar City in Abu Dhabi last week to discuss opportunities for UK firms to work on it
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NewsCentrica gives green light to huge wind farm
Project off coast of Lincolnshire to provide enough power for two large towns
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NewsGovernment needs carbon capture strategy, says ICE
Report says progress on carbon capture technology has been stalled due to lack of funding and a clear road map
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NewsStride Treglown office awarded BREEAM Outstanding at design stage
Architect's new Cardiff office will use a biomass boiler, grey-water recycling and a natural ventilation approach
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NewsEnergy minister pledges date for national policy statement
David Kidney says he is looking for 'earliest day in November' to publish full document
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NewsRadar-invisible turbine could blow away wind farm objectors
QinetiQ/Vestas 'stealth' turbine is hoped to remove a major planning barrier to wind power developments
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NewsCBI calls for boost to nuclear programme
Business body says UK risks undermining energy security if it fails to build at least six new nuclear plants by 2030
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News£100m to fund green projects in London
European and local money to go towards decentralising energy, recycling and waste energy creation
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NewsGovernment to pay for home energy makeovers
Up to 90,000 low-income homes will benefit from energy efficiency measures in plan to curb fuel poverty
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NewsBREEAM grows in European esteem
Developer Codic Group wins Belgium's first BREEAM certification for office scheme
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NewsSash windows can be green, says English Heritage
Research finds that simple improvements to traditional 1880s windows can bring most up to modern standards
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NewsWhat should the zero-carbon home standard be?
Government is consulting the industry on the definition of a zero-carbon home, and to add your views there is an official online survey here
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NewsNuclear power stations may receive public subsidies
Guardian newspaper says government plans to pay for new wave of power plants with carbon levy on electricity consumers
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NewsGreen light for 50MW biomass plant in Tees Valley
Aker Solution will develop £200m green power station to supply 80,000 homes with energy