buying and renting an eco-friendly home starts with whatgreenhome.com

Whatgreenhome.com provides you with independent reviews of eco-friendly homes for sale and to rent at more than 100 developments and private properties in 29 countries worldwide, including the UK. To find your eco-home look to the right and click on one of the featured eco-homes, or choose a region that will reveal a map showing all the developments we have profiled, or enter the town where you are looking to buy in the search box. You can receive more information, including free inspection visits in many cases, by clicking on the Request Sales Details or Request Rental Details button within an eco-home’s profile and then completing the pop-up form.

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FOR RENT: holiday eco-homes

Climate change awareness means that more and more of us are either holidaying at home, or looking to rent a property abroad where our carbon footprint is as light as possible. Eco-homes available to rent on whatgreenhome.com are located near and far to reflect where you live in the world and where you want to holiday.
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green your own home

So you’ve decided you want to live a more eco-friendly way of life, but how do you go about it? How about harvesting rainwater, or producing hot water from solar power? You could even generate your own electricity so that you can live an independent ‘off-grid’ life. So let’s look at several eco-friendly options around your home that you can do with varying levels of cost, commitment and time.
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a perfect 10

Households in the UK account for 27 per cent of the total CO2 emissions made, costing you money and the planet irreversible damage. But it doesn’t have to be that way. There are many eco-friendly products to...
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anatomy of a ‘zero-carbon’ home 2

The VELUX Model Home 2020 project is an innovative scheme, which aims to provide an example of sustainable homes that are practical, comfortable and appealing to the homeowner while remaining affordable and easily replicable for the mass...
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FITS for purpose

The Government’s announcement on feed-in-tariff (FITs) levels from 1 April is to be welcomed. The highest tariff of 41.3p per kWh for electricity generated from PV of under 4KW on a retrofitted home - with an additional minimum of 3p per kWh...
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