Climate-conscious Katherine Scott is selling her dream family home for one that is energy efficient – ABC News

When Katherine Scott and her husband moved to a new housing estate in regional Victoria, climate change was far from their minds.
Key points:

• Many home builders and buyers are unaware of what makes an energy-efficient house
• Stricter building regulations could bring down the cost of more sustainable and energy-efficient housing
• A group of local councils wants a framework for assessing resource-efficient dwellings

Like most people dreaming of a home, they were thinking about location, price, and the…

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