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	<description>News and updates about all things sustainable in construction</description>
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		<title>It PAYS to Retrofit</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Governments Pay As You Save scheme that offers loans of up to £15,000 which are tied to the property was announced 8 weeks ago but may not become available until 2012. It is part of DECC&#8217;s Home Energy Management Strategy that is designed to stimulate uptake of green energy measures and remove the pain [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.backtoearth.co.uk/blog/?p=56</link>
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		<title>BBA&#8230;..Finally!!!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Tradical® Hemcrete®, the innovative lime and hemp based renewable and highly thermally efficient alternative to conventional masonry cavity walls, has achieved British Board of Agrément (BBA) accreditation. With approval from the UK’s major authority on construction products, specifiers of Tradical® Hemcrete® can have total confidence in the product’s performance.
Developed in Europe by Lhoist and manufactured [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.backtoearth.co.uk/blog/?p=54</link>
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		<title>Life Support?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[An article in the New Scientist (26th Feb 2010) asks how much further can we push the planetary life support systems that keep us safe?? Apparently more than you&#8217;d think.
The demands of the nearly 7 billion humans on the planet are stretching the Earth to breaking point. The obvious threats are climate change and pollution [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.backtoearth.co.uk/blog/?p=45</link>
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		<title>Climate</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Most people were expecting great things to happen at Copenhagen, especially as Barack Obama&#8217;s administration seems to be pushing forward on emissions reductions however, the dance continues. 55 nations (representing 78% of total greenhouse gas emissions) submitted pledges to the UN to cut emissions by 2020. Unfortunately they mostly reiterate pledges made before the summit [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.backtoearth.co.uk/blog/?p=42</link>
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		<title>More social housing for Tradical Hemcrete</title>
		<description><![CDATA[An ambitious sustainable social housing scheme, designed to meet Level 4 of the Code for Sustainable Homes through the use of renewable materials, has achieved planning approval. The development is being delivered by Crossover C-Zero LLP in partnership with Flagship Housing, one of the largest providers of social housing in East Anglia and will be [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.backtoearth.co.uk/blog/?p=41</link>
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		<title>Can we afford to go &#8216;Green&#8217;???</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The reason most people cite as preventing them from going &#8216;green&#8217; is cost. Politicians seem petrified of the public backlash from really tackling climate change because they fear it will cost too much.
However, a modelling exercise conducted for the &#8216;New Scientist&#8217; magazine shows that the fears are completely unfounded. Based on a 50% cut in [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.backtoearth.co.uk/blog/?p=40</link>
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		<title>Sustainables become favourite as environment moves up the agenda.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Both Thermoplan and Tradical Hemcrete have now become significant players for buildings aiming for Code level 4 and above. At this level it becomes reasonably complicated to design walling with conventional materials such that the costs involved mean it is easier and quicker to use the alternatives.
The Natural House, built at the BRE&#8217;s Innovation Park, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.backtoearth.co.uk/blog/?p=38</link>
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		<title>Has it really been that long??</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The last 3 months since my last rant have shot by rather fast as we head into the glorious depths of the English autumn and winter. Once again we are experiencing some fairly extreme weather, 225mm in the Lake District in 1 day is apparently a 1 in 100 year storm. This is quite like [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.backtoearth.co.uk/blog/?p=33</link>
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		<title>Bucking the trend??</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Yes, yes, we know how awful the economy is and yes we know the building industry is extremely hard hit by it all BUT&#8230;. There are little rays of light beginning to shine through the gloom. We have had the best spring quarter that we have ever had and we are getting enormous interest in [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.backtoearth.co.uk/blog/?p=30</link>
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		<title>Show Time!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The season of local shows is upon us!! We started off with the Homes for Good show at Westpoint in Exeter, next was the highlight of the social calendar, the &#8216;Thorverton Country Show&#8217; (which actually brings in as many sales as some of the large shows), after that is the Mid Devon Show (25th July [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.backtoearth.co.uk/blog/?p=29</link>
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