A new Green Homes Service for carbon neutral living

November 20, 2007

Yesterday Gordon Brown announced a new Green Homes Service to advise consumers on their energy consumption and how they can manage their carbon footprint. I asked Peter Grant’ for his reaction to the prime minister’s speech:

“Anything which details the private citizen’s impact on the environment and explains, in clear terms, what we can do about it has to be a good thing. We have a commitment to 100% carbon neutral properties at Grant Management and that is a message we are very keen to get across to anyone looking for an environmentally-friendly house to rent or student accommodation. That is precisely why we launched our new Rent Carbon Neutral site last week.”

“We do our best to offer general guidance to tenants keen to save energy at home but this new government one stop shop seems like it could be a useful resource of more specific advice on everything from keeping heating bills down to refuse disposal.”

“However,” he continued. “It must be adequately funded and advertised and, above all a Green Homes Service needs to be properly managed to make sure it doesn’t consume more resources than it saves. The last thing we need is more hot air.”

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