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Energy efficiency – are government policies working?
The government wants homes to be energy efficient and to cut fuel poverty – but are its policies working? It sometimes feels that there is more heat than light in government policies on energy efficiency. The wholesale changes made by the coalition mean that it’s been difficult to work out what impact policies are having….
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In the red
Yesterday we went into the red. According to the Global Footprint Network, between 1 January and 22 August mankind used up a year’s worth of the earth’s resources. Earth Overshoot Day came sooner this year than ever before. Ten years ago it fell on 3 October, and as recently as the 1970s we were still living within…