Five green things we learnt this week

James S Murray
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From Green Deal loans to RBS energy efficiency loans, we run down the top stories from the past five days

You can now take out a Green Deal package After months of build-up, the Green Deal launched this week to a crescendo of criticism, much of it justified, some of it ridiculously over-blown. Concerns...

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