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The case for including energy efficiency investment in the fiscal stimulus package

Publication date:  30 March, 2009
Bold investment in energy efficiency measures now could provide tangible short-term and long-term benefits to our economy - boosting employment, reducing the problems of fuel poverty, and delivering substantial carbon savings. This investment must be made as an integral part of the government's planned fiscal stimulus package.
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Article tagged as: buildings, energy efficiency, financial crisis, green new deal

London goes retro to beat climate change

Posted by jamie - 29 February 2008 at 1:36pm - 0 Comments

Fashion is a fickle beast but now a whole city is going retro (well, not quite but it was too good a pun to waste). The long-awaited plan to retrofit all buildings owned and operated by the Greater London Authority (GLA) with energy-saving systems and technology is finally in motion with contracts awarded to companies which are going to slash the capital's emissions.

While much of the discussion about energy efficiency in buildings has focused on new houses, there are still millions of older buildings that lack proper insulation or top-notch heating systems. No matter how good those eco-towns are, if and when they're built they'll only represent a small proportion of the building stock in the UK. Fortunately, the GLA have a cunning plan.

Article tagged as: buildings, climate change, emissions, energy efficiency, ken livingstone, london

Energy efficiency


The way we use energy is shockingly wasteful. Every year, we throw away more than eight times the amount of energy supplied by all of the UK's nuclear power stations combined.

Through our inefficient use of energy (gas guzzling vehicles, badly insulated buildings, poorly designed appliances etc) we needlessly throw away almost a third of the energy we use (source).

Article tagged as: buildings, climate change, electricity, energy, energy efficiency, heat, insulation

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