Bring Back the Blitz Blackout to Save Power Says Kirstie; Energy Saviour: Kirstie Allsopp, Joint Author of a Tory Review on Housing Policy, Wants Home Owners to Reduce Electricity Consumption, Insulate Better and Black out Their Properties with Heavy Curtains

Byline: JASON BEATTIE

HOMEOWNERS should be forced to black out their properties with heavycurtains as a means of saving energy, TV property expert Kirstie Allsopp saidtoday.

Ms Allsopp said that in the age of global warming it was "sociallyunacceptable" for people to waste electricity.

Britain's streets should resemble those during the Blitz when a blackout wasmandatory, she said.

"I feel hugely passionate about how damaging our homes are to the environmentand I think we need to do a great deal more. Everybody needs to realise thatunless we reduce quite considerably the energy we use in our homes we arewalking towards disaster. It's not …

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Publication information: Article title: Bring Back the Blitz Blackout to Save Power Says Kirstie; Energy Saviour: Kirstie Allsopp, Joint Author of a Tory Review on Housing Policy, Wants Home Owners to Reduce Electricity Consumption, Insulate Better and Black out Their Properties with Heavy Curtains. Contributors: Not available. Newspaper title: The Evening Standard (London, England). Publication date: December 7, 2007. Page number: 27. © Not available. COPYRIGHT 2007 Gale Group.

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