Model behaviour: Robert Ashton’s earth-sheltered home
‘It costs no more to build a house that needs no heating than it does to build conventionally.’
‘Setting an example is not the main means of influencing others, it is the only means.’ Albert Einstein
I’d met a Friend for a socially-distanced coffee in her garden and the conversation moved to climate change. She told me the steps she was taking to improve the energy efficiency of her rather-elegant home. Being eighteenth century, it is not terribly well insulated, but she was hoping that installing photovoltaic panels to a roof would take her some way towards a greener lifestyle. ‘Because we can afford to,’ she said, ‘we have a duty to set an example.’
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