Practical tips and guides for everyday sustainability in Europe.
Make sustainable living practical, affordable, and compatible with a busy life. We focus on energy efficiency, renovation subsidies, and everyday habits that cut both bills and emissions — with a strong focus on France and the EU policy landscape. The goal is to make energy and renovation decisions readable: which subsidy applies, what it pays for, what it does not pay for, and which decisions can wait until next year without penalty.
Green Daily Fix grew out of a renovation. After moving back to France from the UK, Julien Maurice bought a poorly-insulated house and started the long, paperwork-heavy process of bringing it up to a workable energy standard. Within a few weeks the questions had outgrown anything one Google search could answer: was the house eligible for MaPrimeRénov' or only for CEE? Was a heat pump the right call given the local climate? Did the éco-PTZ stack with the départemental grant? What did the new DPE 2026 thresholds mean for the property's resale value? The official sources existed — france-renov.gouv.fr, ADEME, the European Commission's energy pages — but they were written for installers and policy specialists, not for households trying to make a single decision well.
The site grew from notes Julien took during his own renovation: short, dated explainers that put the rule, the deadline, and the source side by side. As the file got bigger, it became clearer that other households were running into the same questions — heat pump rebates, the 2026 oil-boiler ban, electricity tariff reforms, eco-PTZ stacking — and that the answers were not in any one place.
Green Daily Fix exists to be that one place: a single readable explainer per topic, written from the household's point of view, with the legal and policy references attached for anyone who wants to dig deeper.
Julien Maurice is a French developer and entrepreneur who built AdminLanding, a platform for navigating French administrative procedures. Green Daily Fix grew from his own experience renovating a home in France and researching energy subsidies, heat pump options, and EU regulations.
Every article on energy policy and renovation subsidies references official sources (maprimerenov.gouv.fr, france-renov.gouv.fr, ADEME, European Commission) because getting the details right can mean thousands of euros in grants or avoided penalties. Articles are written by Julien personally, then cross-checked against the relevant ministerial decree, ADEME guidance, or EU directive before publication. When a subsidy ceiling is revised — and the French ones are revised most years — articles are updated and the change is logged.
Three rules govern every guide here. First, accuracy over reach: an article only ships when the relevant subsidy or regulation has been verified against the official text and, where possible, walked through with a real installer or contractor. Second, plain language over policy jargon: the goal is to leave a reader confident enough to ask their installer the right questions, not impressed by the vocabulary. Third, dated and revisable: nothing is published without a "last reviewed" timestamp, and any guide more than twelve months old is flagged for re-verification before promotion.
We do not accept paid placements, sponsored guides, affiliate-fee content for installer matching, or referral arrangements with subsidy intermediaries, and the site has no advertising. Funding for the editorial work comes from the AdminLanding software business — which is why Green Daily Fix guides occasionally link to AdminLanding tools (administrative letter templates for MaPrimeRénov' applications, for example), and never the other way around.
Green Daily Fix is opinionated about its scope. We cover energy efficiency in homes, renovation subsidies in France and the EU, heat pumps and other low-carbon heating, household electricity and tariffs, and the EU policy frameworks that drive these decisions. We do not cover lifestyle minimalism, fashion sustainability, food sustainability beyond the energy angle, transport beyond the home charging question, or general environmentalism untethered to a concrete household decision.
This narrowness is deliberate. The market is full of generalist sustainability sites, and most of them are worse at any single topic than a focused site would be. We would rather be the right site for one decision than the second-best site for ten.
Green Daily Fix is part of the AdminLanding ecosystem (adminlanding.com). For readers who need to act on the renovation and energy topics covered here, AdminLanding offers ready-to-send administrative letter templates for MaPrimeRénov', éco-PTZ, and CEE applications, plus Guide: Démarches en France — an AI assistant (Chrome extension and Android app on Google Play) that annotates 23 French government sites field by field, in English or French. Landlords managing rental properties can also download Rent by AdminLanding on Google Play for ALUR-compliant leases, rent receipts, and digital inspection forms.
Questions, ideas, corrections? Reach out at [email protected] — we read and respond to every message.