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Upcoming course at National Self Build Centre off M4 in Swindon.
These look very interesting indeed.
Saturday 10th July, Sunday 11th July, 2010.
These are seminars so just drop in, tickets for the weekend event from:
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Today had fun planting 12 sakura cherry blossom at Miami Green Condos Penang Malaysia for Earth Day. This is the ‘watering ceremony’.

The gardeners got there first and put them in, which was not the plan, but keeps people employed.
These are around the main entrance with the waterfalls, and a few other places.
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Eco Workshops are to help self builders, DIY people and renovators understand the green issues affecting them and their projects.
Dave Hilton an eco expert is giving a talk, along with many others. This is at Buildstore exhibition centre at Swindon off M4 junction 16 >.
For a ticket see here >
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Visiting a Home Depot in the US recently, President Obama said “Energy Efficiency is sexy”.

Clever use of buzz words to get his message to the American people (and us, thanks to the internet).
Insulation is slightly erotic as it is a type of blanketing… if you find that sexy of course.
This phrase will wind [...]

There is a series of talks at the British Council, Penang, Malaysia.
The Lecture Series is organized by Global Leadership Consultants in collaboration with Asian Global Business, GeorgeTown College and HELP University College. They use the British Council, Penang rooms as they share the building.
This talk on 18 March 2010 was about easy green tips [...]

These proposals were set out a while back but we’ve been busy. The basic scheme is better than people expected with these figures:
A feed in tariff (FIT) allows home produced electricity from solar, wind, GSHP or water (etc) to compete on the grid, as national grid supplies are heavily subsidised.
Electricity is paid at a set [...]

Penang is a UNESCO world heritage city but has an over supply of high rise condos while many old buildings are left to rot, or even worse, turned into swift houses (or swifthouses) (where swifts are factory farmed for bird nest soup ingredients – the nest – in old buildings that no one can afford [...]

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This opens today, if you still want to go you can still register for free at
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Next year’s Ecobuild has a look at the effect of 3 years of Government legislation on building practice – the Code for Sustainable Homes, EPCs, and many others. These are for new building and also refurbishment and DIY refitting.
We are supposed to be headed for the zero carbon home by 2016 – that is [...]