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• How to make House and Home more Sustainable.

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• Sustainability is the ability to carry out an
  activity or a process in such a way as to
  conserve ecological balance and avoid depleting
  resources.

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• Problem is current system is linear.
• We take a resource, use it and then throw it away.

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• Need to go from this linear system
• Resource Production Use
  Waste

To this circular system Resource Waste
Production Use
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• There are three key features that I will look at

• Water
• Waste
• Warmth (Energy)

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• Water demand

• For the first time in history, urban demand for
  water is outpacing farm demand, as city users
  outbid irrigators. By 2050 cities will consume
  half the worlds fresh water reducing that
  available for food production by a third.
• From The Coming Famine http//www.policypoint
  ers.org/Page/View/6978

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Waste water the hidden effects
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• Reduce Water demand
• Recycling Grey water to feed plants
• Grey water is used bathing/washing water.
• Use ecological detergents Ecover, Eco-balls,
  un-perfumed/simple soaps etc.

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• Waste (from a BBC report a few years ago)

• The UK disposes of more than 27m tonnes of waste
  to landfill each year - 7m more than any other
  country, the Local Government Association (LGA)
  says.
• An area the size of Warwick - 109 sq miles - is
  now landfill and landfill space could run out in
  2016.
• After the UK, Italy is next with 20m tonnes,
  followed by Spain (17m), France (13m) and Germany
  (10m). Germany has a 25 larger population as
  well.
• From http//news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/6238357.stm
  

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Spot the People/Shark!
People
Dead Shark
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Recycling http//www.uk-energy-saving.com/recycli
ng_facts.html
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Ultimate Green-recycling!
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The Gaurdian newspaper is also doing a series on
greening your home http//www.guardian.co.uk/envi
ronment/series/green-your-home
Welcome to Green your home, our new eco
refurbishment experiment
Momentum is building for the Great British Refurb
Kevin McCloud
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• Warmth (Energy)

• More than 75 of the electricity made by power
  stations is wasted through inefficient
  generation, transmission, and end use. (James
  Bruges, 2007, The Big Earth Book
• There are approximately 26m homes in Britain,
  most of them as well insulated as a rabbit hutch,
  most of which will still be in existence in 2050.
  And those homes are responsible for around 27 of
  Britain's carbon emissions.
• From http//www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2009
  /apr/24/great-british-refurb

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• Washing m/c

Go to www.eaga.com/shopwersmart for a free flow
reducer!

• Shower

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• Heating

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Water, Waste, Warmth/Energy