KEYWORDS relating to likely topics on this website

Sustainability, ecology, energy, retrofitting, design, solar, natural, house, home, landscape, architecture, photovoltaic, reflectors, conservation, water, tanks, mass, thermal, insulation, temperature, global warming, pollution, low energy living, aesthetics, environmental, renewable,

These topics will be of interest to anybody who is concerned about the
degradation of our natural environment by human beings and who wish to DO something about reversing the trend.

The author, an architect and industrial designer with some 59 years of
professional experience in the field of design feels strongly that those of us fortunate enough to own a home can make a significant contribution to these planetary problems by modifying (retrofitting) our homes to :

* reduce our emission of greenhouse gases
* consume fewer resources
* utilise and conserve renewable energies and resources that are freely
   available to us all in preference to non-renewable
   which have the potential to :
* improve the comfort of our homes
* reduce the running costs of living in our homes
* increase the selling price of our homes
* reduce our individual footprint on this earth
* leave a better world for our grandchildren to enjoy

These aims and outcomes are described in detail in the recently published book

“Making your home sustainable” - see pages 3 and 4 of this website for more details, also other pages of relevant topics which will be posted from time to time.

I hope you will find these offerings useful and stimulate action - after all, it is no good just talking, writing or reading about sustainability.

- it requires us to do something toward that critical and vital end point - a sustainable world - so that we can all look our grandchildren in the eye with something like a clear conscience.
Derek F. Wrigley