You’ve doubtless heard this 1,000,000 instances: Probably the most sustainable [insert item] is the one you have already got. This holds true for your own home, too—however with a caveat. Probably the most sustainable house is the one you retrofit.
Ben Ridley, director of Structure for London, is an avid proponent of doing what you possibly can to make your outdated home as energy-efficient and environmentally wholesome as doable. In any case, most individuals don’t have the assets to, say, construct a passive home from scratch. (And, for those who dwell in a metropolis, as Ben does, there’s the difficulty of lack of buildable land.) However there are changes we are able to all make to zip up and greenify our properties.
“There are such a lot of adjustments one could make, even within the smallest initiatives, to decrease power use in a house,” he says. “Throughout my