Posts Tagged ‘Green’

Ireland’s Government Budget 2010; – Continuation of the Home Energy Saving grants.

I welcome the positive announcement, in these gloomy recessionary times, of a further €130 million in the December Budget for 2010, towards retrofitting private homes, as a continuation of the ‘HES’ and Social houses through the ‘Warmer Homes’ scheme.This will stimulate householders to upgrade their home, who take advantage of this, where it funds up to 30% of the total investment.

Lets Go Green for Christmas

Did you know that Irish families this Christmas will consume an estimated 1 million selection boxes, 1.4 million boxes of biscuits and will pull 16 million Christmas Crackers. All this waste will result in a packaging mountain this Christmas, unless we do our part!

It starts at home

Going green starts at home and our next post from Duncan is going to give an overview of the steps we can take to future proof our homes, from the small and simple to the major changes. To get us ready for this post, over the next two weeks we are going to explain a [...]