Thursday, 02 July 2009 00:00
British government abandons green building plans?
Written by Lenny Antonelli
Writing on his blog, George Monbiot suggests the British government has abandoned plans to make all new homes there "zero carbon" by 2016 and to demand that the energy efficiency of homes be significantly improved whenever they are upgraded or extended. Monbiot says the plans were absent from the British government's latest consultation document on Part L of its building regulations.
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Lenny Antonelli
Lenny Antonelli is deputy editor of Passive House Plus. He also writes regularly for the Irish Times, and has contributed to a variety of other publications including the Sunday Times, the CS Monitor, Village, the Sunday Tribune amd the Dubliner. He is currently working on a radio documentary on Ireland's oceans.
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