Hi, and welcome my name is Mike and I look after the ecofamily blog.
Here at Ecofamily we have a very simple goal, in our own small way we hope to educate and empower individuals and families to enable better choices to be made in the way we live our lives. We offer ideas, products and […]

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The renewable energy centre has produced a good little guide to saving energy around the house, including options for renewables and also links to other sources of information. The guide can be found here.
Channel 4 TV have a video diary running for families who are trying to save energy you can watch the first installment […]

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          There are many forms of micro generation technologies using renewable sources of energy, below is a list of the major ones with quick comparissons of the pros and cons. Within the EcoFamily Energy category you will find more detailed comparissons:-
Solar Photovoltaics: (displace grid electricty)
An exceptionally reliable technology and a strong contributor to carbon reduction.
It […]

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This is field scale renewable energy but willow can be grown on smaller areas and used on woodburning stoves

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These wind turbines just get bigger and bigger !

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    I am going to be doing some research into how efficient the various forms of household renewable energies technologies are and whether there is a cost benefit to installing them.
I have a particular interest in the growing of renewable energy crops such as willow and miscanthus for processing into electricity this is a very […]

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      The following has been reproduced from the Department Of Environment, Food and Rural Affairs website.  With almost half the UK’s CO2 emissions arising from the use of heat, a call for evidence has today been published setting out plans to deliver long-term reductions in emissions.
Heat Call for Evidence – published by the Department for […]

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