It’s fine and well banging on about making our homes more eco-friendly, but it can seem a daunting tast, especially when you don’t know where to start. Take an existing home, with average insulation, the usual bog-standard energy supply and lots of waste going to landfill, and turn it around. This special report from the Guardian helps you to make sense of it all with a good simple graphic on how to make a house more environmentally friendly.
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Thanks for that - very informative.
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