Climate change is making extreme weather events, both hot and cold, more frequent across the Great Lakes region. Weatherizing low-income residents’ homes is an important way to prepare.
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It’s often more effective, cheaper and less controversial than other efforts to confront climate change.
In the wake of the Paris Climate Agreement, France has committed to cutting achieving carbon neutrality for its building stock by 2050. While the goal is ambitious, the challenges are significant.
Aged-care units can be a lottery of comfortable versus uncomfortable temperatures, depending on the building’s construction and where you live within it. That needs to improve.
Before you spend up on heating and cooling, here are a few simple retrofits to try first.
Power-hungry houses that rely on air conditioning to make up for their bad design mean that the electricity grid has to cope with summer demand peaks – and everybody pays.
Scotland’s failure to meet target illustrate a worldwide problem - the right to adequate heating and energy is not being properly recognised.
Improving energy efficiency is not an option for a significant number of people in Australia – renters.
How Messrs Thouless, Haldane and Kosterlitz could hold the key to the future.
Have you thought about usable space, re-engineering, structural integrity, contamination, insulation and comfort? If not, you need to before jumping into building a home from shipping containers.
There’s loads of advice out there on how to save energy. But how much of it is based on real scientific evidence?
If you live in a poorly insulated home, and many of us do, you could spend thousands this winter on energy bills. But our ancestors had many ways to keep snug at little or no cost. Now, thanks to modern…
The most important finding in the final report of the Royal Commission into the Home Insulation Program is the one the Abbott government is least likely to heed. One of the two crucial flaws Commissioner…
The political fallout over the ill-fated Home Insulation Program continues, with former prime ministers Kevin Rudd and Julia Gillard now having been summoned to appear before the Abbott government’s royal…
What’s the world’s most important fuel, as we head into the 21st century? Oil, coal, gas, renewables? A recent International Energy Agency report stated the most important fuel for the future is energy…
Britain’s housing stock is old and leaky. The vast majority fails to meet modern energy efficiency standards, is responsible for over a quarter of the nation’s greenhouse gas emissions, and is often very…
First the banks lost the public’s trust, then the tax activities of some large corporations were brought under scrutiny. So perhaps taking on the “big six” UK energy companies as household fuel bills incessantly…
Winter is coming, and all across the southern states eyes turn to energy bills and minds towards how to make them smaller. What is the most efficient way to heat your house? As with anything to do with…
The words “pink batts scheme” are rarely heard without “debacle”. But a recent Insulation Council of Australia report by Energy Efficient Strategies (EES) has described the government’s home insulation…
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Professor of Construction and Environmental Assessment, The University of Melbourne
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Associate Professor in Property, Construction and Project Management, RMIT University
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Associate Deputy Vice Chancellor in Research & Innovation, RMIT University
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Professor of Sustainable Energy Business and Policy, University of Strathclyde
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Research Fellow in Sustainabilty Assessment, University of Sheffield
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Leader of the Energy Programme, Environmental Change Institute, University of Oxford, University of Oxford
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Associate Professor in Construction and Environmental Performance, The University of Melbourne
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Associate Professor in Sustainable Development
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Senior Lecturer - Energy, Queensland University of Technology
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Professor of Advanced Building Design, University of Hertfordshire
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Postdoctoral research associate, University of Sydney
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Lecturer in Energy Efficiency, University of Salford
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Professor in Regeneration & Sustainable Development, University of Salford
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Professeure associée et coordinatrice de la chaire « Energy for Society », GEM
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Researcher in architecture and urban planning, Climateworks Centre