THE UK GOVERNMENT NOW does seem to be serious about promoting environmentally friendly homes – in particular zero-carbon homes. However, this raises a number of questions. How should we define a zero-carbon home? Should we try to generate all our heat and power from renewable energy on-site? What policy measures should we be supporting? And with space heating now only about 3% of the carbon emissions of a person living in a new home, all the evidence suggests we should be thinking about low- and zero-carbon lifestyles, not just zero-carbon homes. When we take lifestyles as our starting point, ...
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