- Depave is an organisation that “promotes the transformation of over-paved places“. What a great idea.
- The Ellen MacArthur Foundation has launched a new circular economy news site, Circulate.
- Carbon Brief have extracted all the climate related policies in the parties manifestos and put them in a handy Excel sheet.
- The Campaign for Rural England don’t like wind turbines, so they argue that we need a huge home efficiency drive to reduce our need for them.
The Earthbound Report 
British homes are energy gobblers, and it costs people big money too. Swedish standards of construction are required. I am saving a fortune in energy costs since moving from the UK, and that was Brighton when heating was only one mid-October to mid-April, if that. The trouble is all the old buildings with 9 inch brickwork, and the detached and semi-detached houses with three or four outside walls.
Yes, we’re really trailing behind on that. I got to know our Polish builders rather well when we renovating our house, and they always said that Polish people are much more discerning about what they want when it comes to efficiency. There are any number of techniques or materials that they regularly use that are unknown here.