The House That Heats Itself
Miranda Krestovnikoff looks at new building materials for environmentally-friendly houses and asks where you should start if you want to build your own eco-home.
Miranda Krestovnikoff looks at new building materials for environmentally-friendly houses and asks where you should start if you want to build your own eco-home.
Costing The Earth visits Ashley Vale in Bristol: a self-built community of eco-homes to find out, ten years on, if the project has been a success.
Miranda also discovers the latest building materials and techniques available to those embarking on 'grand design' style projects and discovers how difficult and expensive it is to build your own environment-sensitive home.
Presenter: Miranda Krestovnikoff
Producer: Martin Poyntz-Roberts.
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The self-built housing estate
Duration: 02:18
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- Tue 12 Mar 2013 15:30Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 4
- Wed 13 Mar 2013 21:00Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 4 FM
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Costing the Earth
Fresh ideas from the sharpest minds working toward a cleaner, greener planet
