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We pick the best questions and expert answers from our live debate on cutting energy bills and carbon emissions

Bibi van der Zee explores the growing community of energy groups to find out how they are changing the way we think about our energy system and our relationship with it...

St Vincents School in Liverpool (our ninth in the series) helps blind or partially-sighted children gain new skills - and is now part of the Solar Schools project

Want your own school to use solar panels and be a green energy example to pupils? 10:10s Esther Barlow explains how

Chris Newman explains how he retrofitted his draughty Victorian townhouse so thoroughly it beats the PassivHaus standard

From psychedelic teapots to rugs woven from thrown-away saris, weve pulled together some of the most beautiful and cleverly sourced homeware around

From sun tunnels to wood burners, here are a some small-scale, energy saving ideas for sustainable renovation, inspired by some of Britains superhomes

Standing for more than 40 years, gone in a few seconds, the three Didcot A cooling towers brought down by explosion on 27 July attracted joy, sadness and controversy...

Didcot As cooling towers fuelled not only power, but controversy and passion. Residents and workers talk about their final day

We examine three technologies touted to reduce our water use. Greywater systems can halve use, but are they worth the cost?

The Springwatch presenter explains the anger that motivated her to build the UK's first aquaponic greenhouse on her farm a closed-loop system producing food in a small space

Engineers have done their jobs too well, argues Waterwise's Jacob Tompkins. Taps flow but we don't realise our water is simply running out

In April 2014, hundreds of our readers accepted our challenge to reduce their home energy consumption by 10%. Here are the results Continue reading...

A musical instrument by day, a much-needed power source by night - the #ShakeYourPower project created by a pop musician aims to transform lives in Kenya and beyondFor the last year, I've been developing a prototype musical...

Old Yorkshire mills to a French chapel, eco village to Iranian mosque, see samples of what makes a building bring serenity