Here’s a great way to get yourself a free house. Pose as an artist, say you want to create a gallery/meeting space that’s environmentally sound and get your local community to donate all their scrap wood and raw materials that would otherwise end up lying in a skip somewhere.
Now that’s not entirely what German designers [...]

Someone tell the three little piggies to forget their straw, wood and brick houses because I’ve seen the future – and it’s all made of foam.
Already mushrooming up in Japan (where else?) these styrofoam houses are being touted as the solution to the world’s housing crisis. You know those polystyrene cups of tea you get [...]

Depending on how eco-friendly you really are, the following information could have you nodding your head in resigned agreement or furiously head-butting your swanky new flat screen.
It appears that the self-proclaimed Protectors of the Great British Bin Collection (The Daily Telegraph and Daily Mail) have caught a glimpse of a top-secret report by DEFRA that [...]

Internationally famous tycoon Donald Trump and his equally famous side-parting descended upon Scotland this week for an inquiry into his plans to build the ‘world’s greatest golf course’ north of Aberdeen.
Of course, Scotland is widely regarded as being the home of golf but it turns out it’s also the ancestral home of Mr Trump, his [...]

Not content with heating Buckingham Palace with Geothermal energy Mrs Windsor has bought oneself a jolly big windmill, aka a 7.5 Megawatt Wind Turbine.
And not one to do things by halves she’s bought THE BIGGEST WIND TURBINE IN THE WORLD! Go Liz, go!
Appropriately enough, it’s called ‘Britannia’ and will be situated in the sea off [...]

I’ve read some pretty odd stuff about the housing market but I’ve yet to come across anything as entertainingly off-the-wall as the suggestion that first-time buyers should welcome the eco-apocalypse.
This, at any rate, is the reasoning of “three young couples in London, England, planning to buy our first homes.”

The couples (above) run a website called [...]