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  • Pollution From Construction – The legacy persists

Pollution From Construction – The legacy persists

January 7th, 2024|

Pollution From Construction The construction industry is a major source of pollution, responsible for around 4% of particulate emissions, more water pollution incidents than any other industry, and thousands of noise complaints every year. [...]

  • What is the effect of quarrying

The Impact of Quarrying: Cause and Effect

January 7th, 2024|

The Impact of Quarrying Quarrying is necessary to provide much of the materials used in traditional hard flooring, such as granite, limestone, marble, sandstone, slate and even just clay to make ceramic tiles. However, [...]

  • Earthship in Olst, The Netherlands

Build Your Own Earthship: the Ultimate Sustainable Home!

January 6th, 2024|

Build Your Own Earthship: the Ultimate Sustainable Home! Earthships are growing in popularity around the world and are said to be the ultimate in sustainability – but be warned, they don’t often look like [...]

  • Conceptual Underground Construction

Digging Deep: The Innovative World of Underground Construction

January 6th, 2024|

Underground Construction Underground construction has been around for thousands of years, mostly developed through mining and more recently through transport, housing and commercial industries. The Channel Tunnel, London Underground, British Library, and various shopping [...]

  • Limewash and whitewash on exterior walls

What is Limewash and where can I use it?

February 15th, 2023|

We have a great selection of breathable and natural lime paints, suitable for traditional or heritage buildings, lime plasters and lime renders. Below, we have a nice detailed to guide to the use [...]

  • Upgrade Your Home - Simple Green Home Improvements

Upgrading to an Greener Home

January 28th, 2021|

Whether you want to enhance the energy efficiency of your home by making small, yet cost-effective, changes, or if you're about to embark on a home improvement project to make your house greener, either way, [...]

  • Energy Efficient Home Design & Top Tricks

Upgrading to an Energy Efficient Home

January 8th, 2021|

The concept of energy efficiency has been around for quite a few decades now, but it has only recently caught momentum. With global warming and depletion of our natural resources, we have become acutely aware [...]

  • Eco Friendly Jargon

Confused about the Eco-Friendly Terminology and Jargon?

August 14th, 2020|

Over time, the world has become increasingly more conscious of a need to protect and preserve the environment. People are more environment-conscious now than they have ever been before. With this awareness, several new [...]

  • What is spray foam insulation for the home and is it worth it

What is spray foam insulation for the home and is it worth it?

July 16th, 2020|

The importance of home insulation cannot be understated. Having your home insulated is a great way to increase the energy efficiency of the household, decrease the electricity bill, and basically create a comfortable living [...]

What’s Driving the Sustainable Interior Design Movement?

August 3rd, 2016|

Sustainable interior design has come a long way. From being exclusively the preserve of the counter-culture it has become part of the mainstream, with sustainable practices benefiting from an extra dash of zeitgeist-grabbing cool.But despite [...]

  • Eco Green Home Architecture

Green Futures: Eco Friendly Architecture Grows Up

March 30th, 2016|

Modern buildings have a bad reputation, and it's easy to see why. From the brutalist concrete shells of the 1960s to the materialist excess of the 1980s, right up to the wave of cheap, [...]

  • Straw Bale House Build

Straw Bale House Build: The Bricks of the Future?

March 16th, 2016|

When most of us hear the idea of a house made of straw, the first thing that comes to mind is the tale of the Three Little Pigs. But with straw now being recognised as [...]

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