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Reasons to make your home green

Making our housing eco friendly doesn't have to cost the earth. While many of us can't afford heat pumps, solar panels or new electric boilers, there are things we can all do to help ourselves and the environment through minimising our energy consumption. Remember, around 30 per cent of the UK's CO2 emissions come from our housing stock.

Look for A, AA and AAA rated appliances

Save water, don't waste it!

We really should have listened to those climate Cassandras....and while many politicians still try to ignore the elephant in the room that is climate change and the climate crisis, we know we have to conserve water and stop burning fossil fuels. As individuals It's not to hard to use less water, so let's remind ourselves of the checklist why don't we!

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Home Sweet Home: immersive exhibition at Mall Galleries

The first show of its kind at Mall Galleries, ‘Home Sweet Home’ is the ambitious vision of award-winning Chinese children’s author and artist Huaicun Zhang.

Coventry University wins Green Flag award for 13th year

Over recent years Coventry University has transformed its campus through the creation of spaces such as the Peace Garden, which sits opposite Coventry Cathedral, Starley Gardens and its edible garden, which serves as a pollinator hub and provides fruit, vegetables and herbs for students and staff.

E waste - get rid of it correctly

Most of us replace our mobile phones every 2-3 years - but what do we do with our old one?  Let it gather dust in a cupboard?

We're continually updating our tech, which generates more than 50m tonnes of e-waste globally. Yet only 20 per cent of this is recycled, which means tons of increasingly rare precious minerals, such as copper, tellurium, lithium, cobalt, manganese and tungsten, are winding up in landfill sites.

Tech recycling specialists Envirofone say there are key common misconceptions many of us have surrounding recycling our E-waste.

To buy or not to buy leather? Is it eco friendly? A tough decision...

Is there eco friendly leather? Is leather good or bad from an environmental perspective? Many of us think because leather is a natural product, it must be good. But tanning leather has always been a dirty business and in many parts of the world it remains so.

Rugs for the garden

Fab Habitat recycled plastic rugs are eco friendly and long lasting. They are also recyclable. NOW Carpets has launched its own range of designer rugs made from recycled polyester yarn, made in India. Tags: garden, eco friendly, recycled, craft, sustainability, decoration

Low maintenance gardens

Most of us want a garden we can enjoy, but not all of us have the time or gardening expertise needed to cultivate splendour. British Garden Centres has put together some simple ideas we can all try to achieve that little bit more outside, whatever the size of the space we have. 

Start with containers

Heat pumps do bring down energy costs

Researchers at the Energy House 2.0 research facility at the University of Salford, working with housebuilders Bellway and Barratt Redrow and construction solutions manufacturer Saint-Gobain UK & Ireland, have spent the past year testing 14 different heating systems to see which ones will heat homes the best at the lowest cost.
 

Eco friendly wall coverings

According to the British Coatings Federation wallpaper sales are continuing to grow, as they have been for the past few years. Well, lockdown did present many of us with time to get to grips with some of the more difficult DIY tasks ..such as learning to hang wallpaper. 

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