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Brand new 1930s house is built to test energy efficiency..
'E.ON, one of Britain's big six energy suppliers, is teaming up with the University of Nottingham to build a replica 1930s house which will be used to test technologies aimed at improving the energy performance of Britain's ageing housing stock'. Read more at Guardian website
Exposed: the great GM crops myth:
'Genetic modification actually cuts the productivity of crops, an authoritative new study shows, undermining repeated claims that a switch to the controversial technology is needed to solve the growing world food crisis'..
Read more at The Independent website.
Breathing Places
'Breathing Places is a major BBC Learning campaign to inspire and motivate you to create and care for nature-friendly green spaces where you live'.
bbc.co.uk/breathingplaces
Catch up with That Roundhouse.
An ecohome of wood frame, cobwood, straw-insulated turf roof, solar power, a wind turbine for electricity, compost toilet, reed beds for grey water, which has been fighting for planning permission several times with the help by locals, the media and other brave souls..
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