Sustainable Homes and Business

Useful Information & Links

We do not try to provide a full list of all web sites - just the ones that we find useful and where we know the information provided is genuine.
Carbon offsetting
Equiclimate One of the few systems where offsetting your carbon removes carbon credits from the EU Emissions Trading Scheme - meaning others can not buy them to carry on emitting greenhouse gases - simple but elegant!
Energy Suppliers
Good Energy 100% renewable energy supplier.
Ecotricity Not a 100% renewable energy supplier but has consistently spent more on building new sources of green electricity in the last four years than all the other suppliers added together
Ebico Not-for-profit energy supplier. Not necessarily 'green' - supply partner is Scottish and Southern Energy but 10.2% of their 2007 supply was from renewable sources
EPCs
Energy Performance Certificates Government web site (Department for Communities and Local Government (DCLG) - gives all the background to the Energy Performance of Buildings and Energy Performance Certificates
HIPs
Home Information Packs Main government web site explaining everything you need to know about HIPs
Renewable Energy
National Energy Foundation Good source of information on sustainable energy sources
Solar Trade Organisation Trade Association for the Solar Energy Industry
Renewable Energy Assurance Scheme Assurance scheme of the Renewable Energy Association - find suppliers that subscribe to a code of practice
Ground Source Heat Pump Association. Information and suppliers that subscribe to a code of practice