insulation Archive

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    Insulating the Budget



    Well, it’s happened again. Budget stuff has leaked from Wellington, stealing the thunder of Greens and Tories alike ahead of tomorrow’s announcement. No one is immune, and all sorts of theories can develop about who may gain an advantage by leaking such stuff. First of all, after a thorough hop around the corridors of power, I [...] read more
    May 27, 2009 5:43 pm - 23 Comments
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    Tourists welcome, but don’t breathe or drink!



    While the media have been awed by the novelty of besuited brainstorming at the Job Summit on Friday, there seems to be a lack of comprehension as to what some of the ideas might actually mean. To be fair, the Government is also going away to consider the ideas – they’re not constructed in carbon-intensive [...] read more
    March 2, 2009 10:58 am - No Comments
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    Irish government unveils insulation scheme



    While our government prevaricates and even cancels our shovel ready Green Homes Insulation fund, the Australians and the Irish have announced ambitious plans of their own. The Irish Times reported today: HOW TO cut heating bills, reduce carbon emissions and create thousands of jobs in the construction sector in the process? The Government, through its national [...] read more
    February 10, 2009 5:08 pm - 17 Comments
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    The ideas are free and plentiful – you just need to ask



    An interesting discussion from the Otago Daily Times’ Dene Mackenzie – who was lunching with Jeanette and Australian Green Leader Bob Brown yesterday: Senator Brown said the injection of new ideas in politics around the world was coming from the Greens and there [...] read more
    November 6, 2008 9:26 pm - 9 Comments
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    National Party to dump the billion dollar Green Home Fund



    Last night in Auckland, National Party Climate Change Spokesman Dr. Nick Smith MP announced under pressure that National has no plans to keep the billion dollar Green Home Fund that the Greens negotiated with Labour. Speaking at the Oxfam Climate Change Debate, Smith was pressured by Minister Parker as to whether National would keep the fund. [...] read more
    October 14, 2008 6:11 am - 62 Comments
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    UK Green Party – living wage, warm homes and public transport



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    October 3, 2008 8:29 am - 1 Comment
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    Dunne makes chickens suffer



    Peter Dunne is pooh-poohing the $180 million compensation package for households that will form part of the Emissions Trading Scheme, which NZ First is claiming from it’s negotiations with Labour.  Dunne’s back of the napkin calculations are that each household will receive $2.15 a week. He then further calculates $2,15 to be about 7 eggs. Well, [...] read more
    September 2, 2008 12:11 pm - 40 Comments
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    $1 billion of warm homes



    The have been the usual voices in favour and against the Greens’ decision to back the Emissions Trading Scheme, and I’ll talk more about that later. But I also just saw a media release coming from a different angle from the Director of the University of Otago Wellington’s He Kainga Oranga/Housing and Health Research Programme [...] read more
    August 27, 2008 4:30 pm - 47 Comments
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    21,000 warmer state homes



    Housing New Zealand owns and maintains about 68,600 houses throughout New Zealand.  Many of these properties were built before 1978, prior to insulation becoming mandatory. Many of these homes have poor or no insulation and inefficient heating such as open fires. Housing New Zealand has been running a programme to progressively retrofit uninsulated state homes with energy [...] read more
    May 15, 2008 1:59 pm - 30 Comments