All posts by sophialouisecox

Building, Energy, Sustainable Living

Transition Homes

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Ealing Transition member Dora has started a fabulous blog  “West London Transition Homes” where she aims to collect and collate information helpful to those wanting to radically upgrade the energy efficiency of their homes, and has started with some great posts about the Varszegi family’s PassivHaus retrofit of their own ex-local authority 1930s semi in South Ealing.

The Varszegi’s now use 90% less gas than before the refit, and haven’t used the central heating for 18 months, but their home is a constant and comfortable 22°C! It’s almost certainly the most energy efficient home in West London.

See this month’s Ealing Council “Around Ealing” article for an interview with Dora, and visit the “West London Transition Homes” blog for more information.

Editorial, Reskilling

Re-Skilling Day Workshop Facilitators

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We had over 150 people through the doors on Re-Skilling Day 2013, who took away new skills and fresh inspiration! Thanks for coming!

We’d also like to thank everyone who made the day possible: our tireless organisers, the front desk helpers, the people who made and served the food, the church for use of its facilities, and those who set-up before, and swept-up afterwards!

Of course the day would have been nothing without our wonderful Workshop Facilitators, who gave up their time and offered their skills for free: cheers!

We’ve now got a little page dedicated to them, so if there was a workshop you attended, and would like to know more, or if there’s one you missed out on, that’s the place to head to find out how you can contact them.

And thanks again, everyone!