So – we might have mentioned it before – but we have been nominated for a few awards this year – The Guardian Sustainable Business Awards 2016 – in the built environment category – in fact we (Fran and I) are going up to the awards ceremony tomorrow night to see if we win!! To be honest having looked at …
Guardian Sustainable Business Awards
So – the time is ticking down towards the May deadline to find out if we have won our “Built Environment” section of the Guardian Sustainable Business Awards 2016… wish us luck…
Shortlisted in Guardian Sustainable Business Awards
Well – this is really exciting – but we’ve been shortlisted in the Built Environment section of The Guardian Sustainable Business Awards: Built Environment – An award for innovative redevelopments or new-build projects that are at the leading-edge of approaches to reducing the built environment’s negative environmental impacts and raising its positive social impacts. http://www.theguardian.com/sustainable-business/2016/mar/14/announcing-the-2016-guardian-sustainable-business-awards-shortlist We’re up against some pretty …
Photos of the BGH team hard at work
The good guys from Amelia & Satnaam @ Funding Options and great photography from Toby @ Exposure photography we have been doing a little posing on one of our recent jobs!! So – some of these pictures are a little “cheesy” but some are great – what do you all think? any favourites? Answers on a postcard please – or …
New Website Goes Live
So – we are very happy to have finally updated our website (the old website was great but just didn’t work too well on an iPad or phone. Now that so many people are using these devices we thought it would be a good idea to get “with the program”. In an age of information overload we try and keep …
Ecotricity
Bright Green Homes buys all of its Electricity and Gas from Ecotricity, Britain’s largest Green Energy company, who in their own words “invest the money from your bills into building new renewable sources of energy.” which we think is pretty cool.
Brighton and Hove Energy Services Company
Working with Brighton & Hove 10:10, Bright Green Homes and other community partners, a new energy company has been formed: Brighton and Hove Energy Services Company. BHESCo is a social enterprise which is bringing together thousands of people in Brighton and Hove to bulk buy energy and save money on their fuel bills. As well as passing on the savings …
Green Web Hosting
Bright Green Homes has moved its web hosting to 3Co Hosting.co.uk : an ethical, customer focused web hosting and design company delivering an environmentally friendly web hosting solution using carbon offsetting projects and renewably sourced electricity. Bright Green Homes is an investor in the community Solar project – Brighton Energy Cooperative – Brighton Energy Coop owns more than £700,000’s-worth of …
Green House Cleaning and De-cluttering Tips – Guest Blog
At a certain point you might get tired of flooding your house with chemicals while busy home cleaning. In this case you should start thinking about your home as well as the environment, and thinking of natural and green ways to get the home clean. And then thinking of some methods to keep the home clean. You are not limited …
Blog from the wingtip part 5 : Le LEAF and the Peripheriques
In September 2015 I set off for the first LEAF trip to my cosy gite in the Vendée, France – had a plumber booked to civilise its bathroom and, well, I just get itchy feet every couple of months. My Leaf doesn’t have Tesla’s battery power. My NEXT Leaf might though (can’t imagine owning an ICE again) as the …