EcoHomes was an environmental rating scheme for homes in the United Kingdom. It was the domestic version of the Building Research Establishment's Environmental...
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BREEAM for new homes called EcoHomes was launched in 2000. This scheme was later used as the basis of the Code for Sustainable Homes, which was developed...
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An Eco-house (or Eco-home) is an environmentally low-impact home designed and built using materials and technology that reduces its carbon footprint and...
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EDF Energy (redirect from ECO 2020)
using "It's not easy being green" as their slogan to target a new greener eco friendly image. In 2009, with Euro RSCG London, EDF created the Team Green...
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Umberto Eco OMRI (Alessandria, 5 January 1932 – Milan, 19 February 2016) was an Italian medievalist, philosopher, semiotician, novelist, cultural critic...
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Eco-terrorism is an act of violence which is committed in support of environmental causes, against people or property. The United States Federal Bureau...
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be achieved through recruitment. The company also cofounded the National Home Decarbonisation Group (NHDG) with the goal of undertaking the high-quality...
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Eco-capitalism, also known as environmental capitalism or (sometimes) green capitalism, is the view that capital exists in nature as "natural capital"...
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The term eco-warrior is a self-description for an environmental activist that adopts a "hands-on" effort to save a plot of land. In the UK it coined the...
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Barratt Developments (redirect from KingsOak Homes)
Parks". Retrieved 1 March 2021. "Barratt contracted to build UK's first eco-village". The Guardian. 14 December 2007. Retrieved 1 March 2021. "Derwenthorpe...
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England and Wales. The Government-owned scheme was a successor to the BRE EcoHomes scheme first used in 2000. BRE managed and developed the technical contents...
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around the world aiming to cut greenhouse gas emissions, such as Dongtan Eco-City, which is planned to be zero waste, and the High Speed 2 Interchange...
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founding member of the UK Green Building Council, specializing in green and eco-friendly engineering and design. Fulcrum was responsible for projects such...
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alternative to gas boilers. Corgi: In 2017 CORGI HomePlan became part of the OVO group. They’re a boiler and home emergency provider in the UK, that currently...
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announced it had partnered with Amazon's Alexa virtual assistant, to optimise home energy use through the Agile Octopus time-of-use tariff. As part of their...
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residential and business retail business, and SSE's residential energy supply and home services business, excluding its business in Ireland. Although the merger...
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design-and-build contractor for The Mill, a 327-home high-rise development in central Ipswich, completed in March 2009. Some homes have been deemed unsafe since 2013...
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British Gas (trading as Scottish Gas in Scotland) is an energy and home services provider in the United Kingdom. It is the trading name of British Gas...
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ECO: A Covenant Order of Evangelical Presbyterians is an evangelical Presbyterian denomination in the United States. As a Presbyterian church, ECO adheres...
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Eco-anxiety (short for ecological anxiety and also known as eco-distress or climate-anxiety) is a challenging emotional response to climate change and...
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EcoSikh is a Sikh environmental organization. It is the most prominent Sikh environmental organization working on global environmental issues. It has...
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Berkeley Group Holdings (redirect from Berkeley Homes)
Berkeley Homes, a name borne by regional subsidiaries. Pidgley (the dominant partner) and Farrer had previously run the housing division of Crest Homes and...
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widely accessible. The initiative has prototyped the Seed Eco-Home – a 1400 square foot home with the help of 50 people in a 5-day period – demonstrating...
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Geodesic dome (redirect from Geodesic dome home)
and glass dome was used as a dome cover to an eco home in Norway and in 2013 a glass and wood clad dome home was built in Austria. In Chile, examples of...
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operational on 1 December 2008. Millennium Communities Programme, EP initiative EcoHomes Neil Shields, Chairman of the Commission for New Towns 1982–1995 Ibid Tyne...
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shares its headquarters building, at 2 Marsham Street in London, with the Home Office. There are corresponding departments in the Scottish Government, the...
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Vistry Group (redirect from Bovis Homes Group plc)
Vistry Group, formerly Bovis Homes Group, is a British house-building company based in Kings Hill, England. Bovis Homes completed a deal to acquire Galliford...
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Persimmon plc (redirect from Persimmon Homes)
After leaving George Wimpey, Davidson had formed Ryedale Homes in 1965, selling it to Comben Homes in 1972 for £600,000. Davidson restarted development again...
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producer. On 13 June 2010 Centrica, through Direct Energy, acquired Clockwork Home Services. Combining with the existing energy offer made Centrica the largest...
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An eco-city or ecocity is "a human settlement modeled on the self-sustaining resilient structure and function of natural ecosystems", as defined by Ecocity...
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