New infrared fabric technology is easy to install, cheap to run and affordable so it has huge potential as a future alternative to heat pumps, especially for retrofit projects.
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One way to prevent the destruction wrought by a devastating earthquake – like the one that hit Morocco in September 2023 – is to construct resilient homes and buildings.
Armed police interventions are unconstitutional and incapable of addressing housing and safety in the inner city.
England’s housing strategy will consume our entire carbon budget by 2050 – there are alternatives, but they face political and economic barriers.
Tenants are rarely allowed to make permanent changes to a house. And many landlords know little about the conditions tenants endure, but most who do retrofit homes do it to improve renters’ comfort.
Before the pandemic, our cities had a simple plan: let population growth drive economic activity. But the world is changing and the perpetual growth mindset has to change with it.
North America’s 2021 extreme heat event should compel governments to scale innovations from leading cities and countries to advance resilient, restorative and renewable cities.
Almost 8 million Aussie homes lack sufficient insulation, use sub-par heating and cooling equipment, or are badly designed. These homes account for 18% of Australia’s emissions.
In the absence of a clear plan for affording the high costs of decarbonisation, it’s time for the UK Treasury to tax fossil fuel companies.
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Honorary Senior Fellow in Urban Geography and Planning, The University of Melbourne
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Research Fellow in Fuel Poverty and Energy Policy, Built Environment Asset Management (BEAM) Centre, Glasgow Caledonian University
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Postdoctoral Researcher, Monash Sustainable Development Institute, Monash University
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Research Fellow, Centre for the Understanding of Sustainable Prosperity, University of Surrey
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Postdoctoral Researcher, University of Oxford
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Associate Professor of Architecture, University of Technology Sydney
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Head of Finance and Macroeconomics, Institute of Innovation and Public Purpose, UCL
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Associate Professor in Human Geography, Monash University
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Fellow, MJ Wosk Centre for Dialogue; Executive Director, Renewable Cities, Simon Fraser University
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Professor and Deputy Director (Research), Monash Sustainable Development Institute, Monash University
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Professor of Civil Engineering, Colorado State University
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Professor, School of Architecture and Planning, University of the Witwatersrand
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Lecturer in Spatial Planning, Cardiff University
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Writing fellow at the African Centre for Migration Studies, University of the Witwatersrand
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Centennial Postdoctoral Fellow, School of Architecture and Planning, Centre for Urbanism and Built Environment Studies, University of the Witwatersrand
