Australian Houses are TOO BIG

Yesterday I reported how Australian homes are now officially the largest in the world. Greens MP John Kaye pointed out that such large houses outrank those of any other country in the world in terms of their carbon footprint as well as their size. Large houses need more energy for lighting, heating and cooling. What he doesn't mention is that a large part of the carbon footprint of a house is in the concrete that goes into making it, so again the bigger the house the more emissions from the concrete that went into building it.