While governments around the world scramble to find new ways to cut emissions, they are putting pressure on local councils and businesses to come up with new and innovative ways to cut emissions and increase recycling. While these schemes have good intentions, many feel that people should not be relying on the government to tell them how to live their lives and that if true change is going to be made that it must be made by individuals, not big groups. After it was revealed that world leaders, who can’t be asked to make changes in their own lifestyles, will be creating a city’s worth of carbon emissions for the United Nations summit in Copenhagen, it has become clear that real change is not going to come from politicians, but from individual households.
This is why over five hundred households volunteered for a new scheme in the United Kingdom which aims to make their homes more efficient in the ways that they use energy. Houses in Sunderland, Birmingham, Sutton and Stroud will be undergoing complete makeovers in an effort to make the homes more environmentally friendly. The scheme allows homes to have green technology for free and pay for the cost over the long term, so that it doesn’t offset the savings that the green technology will give them. One of the biggest problems for some homes is that they cannot afford the up front costs of installing green technology into their homes.
The project will supply more efficient insulation as well as other green technology such as wind and solar power.
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