The writer has been a frequent contributor to the Sunday Times Home section. How snug was was your winter? Did your house cope comfortably with the bitter chill of December 2010, or, like most of the rest of us, did you simply crank up the central heating and throw on more blankets? Here are two… Continue reading
Posts tagged CO2
Time to inform drivers on vehicle emissions besides Co2
More hazardous pollutants from a car exhaust apart from Co2 I live close to a pollution hotspot, and, like many otherwise well-intentioned people I know, I add to that pollution. I don’t drop litter, or pitch trolleys into the canal, or do things I could easily stop. This is everyday, going-about-normal-life pollution I’m talking… Continue reading →
Argosy from the Orient delivers a greener future
When did an argosy laden with rare goods from distant parts last make the news in this country? You’d have to go back a long way. The city of St Petersburg may not have been quite up to the pedigree of Masefield’s Quinquireme of Nineveh from distant Ophir, bearing ivory,peacocks, sandalwood and cedarwood. But it… Continue reading →
“Tea cosy houses" will cost hardly anything to heat
The writer has been a frequent contributor to the Sunday Times Home section. A housing association development in the Essex countryside, now nearing completion, will be one of the first in Britain to meet the exacting Passivhaus low energy standards. The group of 14 home, which Hastoe Housing Association is putting up on a green… Continue reading →
Could 2011 be the year the electric car takes off?
Could 2011 be the year the electric car (EV) takes off? UK Transport Secretary Philip Hammond believes it might. His optimistic words came as the government announced the full list of cars, each one with CO2 emissions less than 75 g/km (grams per kilometre) that attract a grant of up to £5000 when you buy… Continue reading →