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Just as nature intended

Designers are seeing the green home as an opportunity to create gorgeous eco-friendly interiors products - proving you can have style and a clear conscience.

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Eco books 

Eco books

Using Natural Finishes is helpful for anyone who wants to renovate their home in an eco-friendly way; and Confessions of an Eco Shopper chronicles a change of lifestyle entirely for the better with good humour and style.

Why the delay? 

Why the delay?

More energy price rises are expected, and climate change continues to make the headlines, so why are new homes still not being built to maximum energy-efficiency standards?

Grass ceilings 

Grass ceilings

Roof gardens, once a common sight in London, are enjoying a renaissance, together with the growing popularity of living roofs. Grow a lawn on your roof space or a Japanese garden - even a golf course.

Your family and other animals 

Your family and other animals

Birds, bats and bugs need homes, too. Housebuilders are working with eco groups to save the local environment.


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The ultimate treehouse 

The ultimate treehouse

Jon Broome, pioneer of green building and one of the country's leading architects, has built a wooded hideaway home among the trees in Forest Hill, south-east London.