Every two years we have an inspection by the Green Tourism Scheme . We had our inspection back in August and we're delighted to announce that we have maintained our GOLD standard. We've made many changes since our last inspection, to help improve our rating, so we're delighted with our score. These changes include:- completion of our water recycling system so we can use water from our washing machines to water the garden. all showers in the house now have Mira Eco-shower heads, which use up to 75% less water (and therefore energy to heat the water) than standard shower heads. the new lighting in the large double room is all compact fluorescent we replaced the cooker and fridge as they were very old and the oven was next to the fridge/freezer. we've replaced the bottled water in guest room fridges with jugs of filtered water, so no more plastic bottles we've "disposed" of many items using www.freecycle.org so that rather than items becoming rubbish they