energy, Tag

Electricity costs are constantly increasing. This article explains 10 top tips that are cost effective and practical.

How to save money by being more energy efficient, we look at various ways of reducing your energy bills and electricity consumption.

Solar Power systems installed at the home or office can reduce environmental impact. How solar panel systems work is described and how you and the environment benefit.

Windows, doors and other openings account for up to 40% of a buildings energy consumption in heating and cooling. This article explains what you can do to save money and be green.

Passive solar building design is explained and how passive solar principals are used to design green homes and buildings, and save you money.

UK’s dirty air still ‘a public health emergency’ despite dramatic fall in death rates

Don’t buy the greenwash. Shell’s initiatives, which have won over many conservation groups, are dwarfed by its investment in oil and gasIt is hard to believe it needs stating, but it does. The oil industry is not your...

The spat over VAT on solar batteries shows how Brussels-bashing is taking precedence over urgent social priorities• Molly Scott Cato is a Green MEPAs pro-European MEPs we grow weary of the government claiming credit for...

Electric cars are better for the environment than fossil fuel-burning vehicles, but they still rely on the grid, which can be variously dirty or clean depending on what sources it uses for its energy...

Ex-US vice-president says only big solutions can offset impact of systemic shifts and avert disaster

Treasury proposes rise from 5% to 20%, while the tax on coal will stay at lower rate

“I just want to be proud of the company that I work for,” Maren Costa told me recently. Costa is a Principal UX Design Lead at Amazon, for which she has worked since 2002. I was referred to her because of her leadership...

Washington governor’s campaign centers on climate crisisAnnouncement to be made in threatened Florida EvergladesWashington governor Jay Inslee will set his sights on powerful fossil fuel interests on Monday, by introducing...

Workers have been fighting uranium mining for decades – the environment needs mass civil disobedience

Some families are already taking advantage of "demand response", reducing their bills by cutting their electricity use at peak times. But a move to promote competition in the demand response market has come up against some...

The government stands accused of failing to protect workers as it sold off projects to EDF and other foreign firms

Actor says Royal Shakespeare Company deal allows the oil firm to ‘obscure the destructive reality of its activities’

Action to save environment is even more imperative; it beats sitting on hands for another three years

They have an option through the Coag route to pursue the Neg even if Angus Taylor refuses to play ball

File ice cream vans under “things I never thought posed a significant risk to the environment but might actually.” Nissan has developed a new concept vehicle that addresses the problem of all the emissions generated...

Works out how long an investment in an energy storage time shifting system would take to pay back in full. Such systems typically charge a battery during the off peak period and then discharge during the peak period, so saving...

Work out how much power your devices and appliances use with the total cost. Also shows how much standby/phantom power costs you. Helps you save money.

Helps you work out the running cost of electric based underfloor heating taking into account peak and off-peak electricity prices