Each of us has a responsibility to protect the environment. But those who live in flats may feel their choices are limited. Certainly, it is more difficult to have a water butt and solar panels if you live in a block of flats, but it is not impossible and there are many other things you can do, says Susan Kerry Bedell...

Government’s zero-carbon challenge has seen pressure on housing developers to design and implement eco-friendly homes, reports Lee Middleburgh, MD of Peverel OM...

What residents living in blocks of flats are doing (and should do) to improve the environmental impact of their building and surroundings. Elliot Carter of PDM Consultants reports...

NOTB speaks with Tony Pidgley, MD of The Berkeley Group. (See the full interview in News on the Block magazine with this supplement)...

With completed housing estimated to account for 30 per cent of the UK’s total energy use and 27 per cent of carbon dioxide emissions, policies designed to tackle climate change are increasingly having an effect on how housing is built and managed, writes Chris Baker, partner at Davis Arnold Cooper...

County Estate Management (CEM) was the prize-winner in the International Green Apple Awards 2007 for Environmental Best practice. CEM was given the National Gold Award in recognition of its Green Vision: Making Homes and People Greener project...

When we think of ways in which we can minimise our carbon footprint and change our behaviour, what comes into your mind? Is it cutting down on flights, recycling, using public transport more and our cars less? Sarah Webb of the Chartered Institute of Housing attemtps to answer these questions.