Highlights

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WRITTEN MEDIA/specialist journals & newsletters	DATE	BROADCAST MEDIA	DATE
Independent on Sunday -half page with colour pictures	8 January 1995	RADIO 4 - 6 min - 'Woman's Hour'	January 1995
Daily Telegraph - Half page with pictures	21 August 1994	BBC 1's COUNTRY FILE, report	January 1995
Mail on Sunday	26 March 1995	RADIO 5 LIVE -	May 8 1995
Daily Telegraph	April 6 1995	BBC Radio Scotland, Colin Campbell Show	10 April 1995
Sunday Telegraph - 10 column inches and picture	August 18 1996	Afternoon Shift' Radio 4 - Interview with Tom Watts	May 1995
Times - 20 column inches and 2 pictures	4/9/96	Radio 1 Newsbeat - 2 mins	8/1/96
Building for a Future - 2/3 pages with linked article about Newark &Sherwood council	November 1996
Eurobau (German building magazine)	Jul ‘97’	Radio 4 - Today programme - early morning news - approx. 3mins	5th May 1997
Swedish local newspaper - Photo + reference	Jul ‘97’
Building Design, Part of Centre spread, with 3 diagrams and photo’s	Jul 11th ‘97’
Sunday Telegraph - 29 column inches + 3 colour photo’s	August 24th ‘97’
Times - (weekend property) - 2 column inches + 1 large photo	Jan 31st 1998	Radio 4 - “Going Underground” - ½ hour documentary	April 20th 1998
Guardian Education - 2 centre page spread	26/5/98	BBC 2 ‘Home Front - 9 mins -  “The greening of a lounge”	3/6/98
BBC ‘ Good Homes’ – 2 pages, including 9 colour pictures	August 1998	Channel 5 News - 1’40” *3	5/6/98
BOOK – “Greening the Built Environment”, Smith, Whitelegg & Nick williams	July 1998	BBC  Six O’clock News - “..report from Nottm which hopes to achieve the highest development in energy efficiency” - 2 mins	26/10/00
Daily Telegraph - Special report – Energy efficiency in the home. Reference to Nick Raynsford. 3 photographs + 10n column inches	27/10/00	Radio 4 ‘Today’ - Including interview with Construction Minister, Nick Raynsford.	27/10/00
The Observer - “Homes to make you green” -3 photographs + 15 column inches	8/11/98	Sky News - “Revolutionary green house project launced in Notts” Two live interviews via satellite link up on launch day including Nick Raynsford. Also on regular bulletins all day.	27/10/00
The Times - “Radical change starts at the grass-roofs level” 3 column inches	25/11/98	Central News - “Country’s first ever self-sufficient ecological housing development is officially launched today” Live interviews via satellite link up on launch day including Nick Raynsford.	27/10/00
Design – The journal of the Design Council - “Subterrburban heaven” 4 pages + 5 colour photographs	Winter 1998/99	BBC 2 – Weather Show- 5 min programme all about Hockerton, in particular the importance of weather to the way the houses at Hockerton operate, and what lessons are to be learnt more widely about the way we live in our homes.	3/11/98
The Times “Heat is on for change – Energy-conserving houses may open up a builders’ market for the future” 8 column inches	10/2/99	All the Right Moves – BBC2 –8.30pm (6mins) “Green housing is no longer the domain of the alternative lifestyle. Be it semi-underground and developed with minimal impact on the surrounding environment, or triple glazed with solar panels, this is the trend that'’ growing fast."	24/6/99
Sunday Times “Don’t let green loans colour your judgement” 1 column inch + colour photo	14/3/99	Central TV – 24 Hours – 7.30pm (25mins) “Five Hockerton families want to build a wind turbine, but neighbours are fighting their proposal”	6/7/99
The Obsever “Save the planet and save on the gas bill” 12 column inches + colour photo	14/3/99	Carlton TV – ‘Our House’ “A new series of ITV lifestyle show Our House will hit the screens on Friday – first programme takes a peep inside Nick & Trudi White’s home at the Hockerton Housing Project” 9 mins
Building For A Future Magazine “Hockerton in focus” 3pages including 4 colour photo’s)	Spring ‘99’
Living Lightly “Sheltered by the Earth” 2 pages, including 3 colour pics + a graphic	Summer ‘99’
Big Issue “Where Swampy meets Wimpey – Labour has promised an ‘urban renaissance’in our cities. But what about people who want to live in the country? Sam Hart meets a couple who are painting the shires green”	W/c 12/7/99
The Architects Journal “Model Housing – A small Nottinghamshire housing development is pioneering ideas about communal sustainability” 3 pages,incl 5 colour photo’s and 3 graphics.	15/7/99
BBC Vegetarian & Good Food Magazine “GOING UNDERGROUND-Why would a group of successful, professional people, with good jobs and comfortable homes, give it all up to live in holes in the ground?” 3 pages + 11 colour photo’s	Aug ‘99’	NTV Moscow (russian TV) 5-10 min piece about the project – it will be broadcast to 30-40 million Russian speaking people throughout Europe and Israel.	Oct ‘99’
Ikea Lifestyle magazine	Winter ‘99’
Sunday Times “Why we all feel safe as houses living in the past” 2 column inches + 3 pictures	26/12/99	Open University (BBC OU Productions) – Video ‘Green Homes’ – for OU course ‘ Working with our Environment’. 18 minutes	Mar 2000
BOOK – The New Autonomous House – Design & Planning forSustainability Includes double page graphic of HHP homes and several text references	25/4/00	Discovery Today (ITN Factual) 4 mins covering general aspects – Also 3 mins on Autonomous House.	July 2000
Publication – New Practice Profile 119 – ‘The Hockerton Housing Project – design lessons for developers and clients’ (Part of Governments Energy efficient Best Practice Programme – produced by BRESCU) 8 pages / 14 images	June 2000	Discovery Worlwide Village Green 8 mins	July 2000
Book – Organic Living – simple solutions for a better life 2 photos	January 2001	Discovery Channel (Small World TV) Village Green Approx. 5 mins	2/8/00
		Independent Production (A lIght source film production) The Future of Paridise - the European Ecovillage Experience 8 mins on HHP	Sept 2000
		BBC Newsround In Nottinghamshire there are already attempts to do something to slow down the changes. While politicians argue about how to stop the pollution, at a place called Hockerton, children and adults have changed the way they live. They recycle everything, grow their own food, they have no heating in their houses and are kept warm by the good insulation on floors and ceilings. Each family is allowed to own only one petrol driven car. The Hockerton project is inspirational. It made me realise that although global warming is happening, we can all do something to try to slow down climate change. Approx. 1.5 mins	16/2/01
BOOK – The Total Beauty of Sustainable Products (Edwin Datschefski) Ecological House – “I awake to the sun streaming in through the conservatory of my ecological house” 2 pages, 2 colour pictures		Radio 5 Live BBC presenter considers slipping on her bikini in biggest greenhouse in the world On Tuesday, the day of the Tony Blair’s announcement about increased funding towards renewable energy, the project was included as case study on Radio 5 live. With a satellite link up, Simon Tilley, resident in one of the homes was interviewed about the project in connection with the proposed extra Government spending of £100m on supporting solar, wind and wave power. It was all the more relevant since despite ice still on the lake outside, Simon and the Radio 5 presenter were bathed in the 25 degrees of solar warmth – all without costing a penny or a single puff of CO2 to produce. Indeed the presenter was so impressed by the warmth of the home that she felt wearing her bikini would not be so inappropriate. 6-7 minutes	6/3/01
		BBC Countryfile The programme covered the project set up and how the houses are designed to minimise energy use. However they also focused on two other aspects: (1)  The design principles of the homes at Hockerton Housing Project (HHP) as a potential solution to building more homes to a higher energy efficiency standard. A link was made to a local speculative development that HHP helped inspire to integrate much higher levels of energy efficient. A spokesman from the Government’s Energy Efficiency Best Practice programme was also interviewed and invited to comment on need for higher standards. (2)  Link to the Government announcement in same week to increased funding of £100m towards renewable energy. Approx. 5 minutes	11/3/01
		Radio 4- Changing Places - Home – but not alone HHP is the subject of a Radio 4 programme ‘Changing Places’. In it’s fifth series, Howard Stableford (ex Tomorrows World presenter) once again tells the extraordinary stories of ordinary people who are changing the place where they live, so creating new lives for themselves and those around them. Both in rural Nottinghamshire and just two miles from the centre of Bristol, ordinary people are building themselves the homes of their dreams whilst at the same time creating a community with minimal impact on the environment.	29/3/01  Repeat: 1/4/01
		Channel 4 – Not all Houses are Square Charlie Luxton takes a look at those who go it alone with their personalised houses, assessing examples ranging from successful eco-homes at Hockerton, to unusual town houses built on small strips of land rejected by developers – projects that have beneficial implications for the whole housing sector. Approx. 5 mins	21/10/01
		BBC- Radio 4 (Live) Interview with Nick & Trudi white about recycling. Part of story about UK in risk of being fined by EU for not achieving recycling targets. Follow up interviews with Margaret Beckett (Minister for DEFRA) and an EU spokesman. 1.5 mins	21/11/01
		Channel 4 – Forum: Once Upon a Planet (staying Cool) Once Upon a Planet seeks to bring schools up to date with the latest thinking on some of the major environmental problems of our time. The programmes include an 'alarm bell 'component,spelling out the sheer scale of the global crises engulfing us biodiversity extinction, climate change,pollution and over-consumption of natural resources. But there is also a campaigning edge, as we highlight solutions that are being developed in Britain and around the world, and show what ordinary citizens can do The programmes stress the economic and social issues that underlie the environmental crisis, and the need to pursue a global model based on the ideal of sustainable consumption. This programme looked at the specific issues og global warming and climate change, using HHP as an example 3 mins	6/3/02
The guide to Renewable Energy Centres in the UK (Dti) 1 page + 1 colour picture	August 2002	Channel 4 – Ideal Home Show This week Channel 4 was at the Daily Mail Ideal Home Show at Earl’s Court in London. This programme included HHP as an example of an innovative solution to energy saving in the home. Presenter was Charlie Luxton (for the second time at HHP) 4 mins	7/3/02
BBC Wildlife Magazine Hockerton: Letting the Earth do the work 1 page + 2 colour pictures	September 2002	Radio Nottingham (Sarah Julian Show) Five interviews with HHP members (Megan M, LL, NW, NM & ST) each about 5 mins played one per day during week. 23 mins in total	12th-16th July 2004
		BBC1- Heaven & Earth Show 'The Good Life' Over the course of five films, Mel (from comedian duo ‘Mel & Sue’) will be attempting to transform her life to minimise her 'eco footprint' on the world looking at consumer choices, travel, transport and even where we should take our holiday. This week, Mel's home audit was completed by Jo Taylor, a Consultant for BioRegional Consulting. Jo seeks out the potential problem areas in Mel's home and discovers that the chemicals underneath her sink are not the only toxins lurking in her home. With a wealth of green know-how Mel's mission takes her to Nottingham to meet residents of the Hockerton Housing Project, the UK's first earth sheltered, self-sufficient ecological housing development, to learn more about living in harmony with the environment. 11min 32s	10/10/04
		Channel 5-A Different Life Documentary series examining the lives of children who live in unusual circumstances. Luke is 11 and lives in an ecological commune: an earth-sheltered house which uses solar and wind power. Most of his food is grown in his back yard. He is learning to grow his own food and to keep bees. His favourite pastime is learning survival tactics. We follow him as he spends a night surviving in the woods. 22’ 30”	17/10/04
		Carlton TV – News * 3 bulletins Short pieces to coincide with initiation of the Kyoto Protocul	16/2/05
		BBC  One O’clock News Live link to HHP associated with Governments launch of consulation on microgeneration (Tom Heap) 2 mins	23/6/05
Self-Build & Design magazine A new way of living ½ page + 6 colour photos	June 2006	BSkyB – Sky News At HHP all day as part on budget day – live links to comment pre-post budget on issues related to environment – mainly in connection with extra costs for 4X4 vehicles. 11.45 (1.5mins): What do we want to see from budget (ST/NW) 2.45pm (2 mins): Reaction to budget part  (NM/NW) 3.45pm (2 mins) : HHP homes + budget link (NW/RW) 4.45pm (2mins): Cars & car tax (TW/ST) 5.45pm (2mins) : Cars & car tax (TW/ST) (NM) 7.30pm: (10mins): Debate about 4X4 between ST and a local 4X4 enthusiast.	22/03/06