This year’s Green Open Homes scored the biggest ever number of face-to-face and online visits to homes and advice events. Offering a wide choice of green technologies to view and expert advice to access, with over 140 bookings (nearly 50% up on 2020), showing that Muswell Hill people really do want low-carbon homes which are also economic to run and comfortable to live … [Read more...]
Last in the Green Open Homes 2021 event series: Energy Efficiency for Renters
The last of our popular Green Open Homes 2021 online events is on Monday, 6th December at 7.30pm, when we welcome Tom Ruxton of HEET to speak about how private tenants can save energy in their homes. MHSG Chair Cara Jenkinson will follow to set out private landlords' legal obligations. Book here … [Read more...]
Open Green Homes 2021
We're looking forward to our 9th Open Green Homes weekends on 13/14 and 20/21 November 2021. We'll have a mix of in-person and virtual tours with some talks giving advice on retrofitting and energy saving. For more information and bookings click here. … [Read more...]
N10 Traders for the Earth Week
Muswell Business and Muswell Hill Sustainability Group ran an exciting N10 Traders for the Earth Week in July to showcase local businesses. The coronavirus pandemic has showed us the value of our local high streets and we are very lucky to have such a great range of shops on our doorstep. Shopping locally reduces car miles, improving local air pollution and congestion. And … [Read more...]
Try out our new home retrofit advice service
Our homes are one of the biggest contributors to our personal carbon footprint, so many of us are keen to make them more energy efficient. But where do you start? Muswell Hill Sustainability Group are offering a new retrofit advice service, provided by Future Fit Homes – which is a community enterprise based in South London. The service starts with a 30 minute … [Read more...]
Grow your own veg this spring
If you're growing your own vegetables, May is the month when we think about planting vegetable seedlings outside in the ground or in containers. The weather has been unseasonably cold and windy this spring, so it is important to prepare seedlings before you plant out. Gradual introduction to an outdoor sheltered space is important to strengthen their roots to cope with … [Read more...]