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The climate crisis is dogged by worry and denial - Carbon Watchdog focuses on the basic facts behind the panic and bluster. My name is Adam Hardy and I produce informative and entertaining material for people everywhere in the world who have seen this whole thing brewing and are looking for the best ways to tackle it. Society is adapting to climate change at breakneck speed - and God knows, we have to - but the information tsunami is only going to get bigger - so what do all the headlines and cool infographics about Arctic sea ice and hydrogen power actually mean? Carbon Watchdog has put together a complete package of not-so-inconvenient truths about living with climate change - regardless of your politics (or lack of) and moral and ethical viewpoint. We should all do our bit of course - but what is "our bit" and who says? The US president? Greta Thunberg? God? Listen here for a range of interesting, inspiring, helpful, effective and trustworthy climate-related discussions! Get more Carbon Watchdog content at https://carbonwatchdog.o
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Sunday Feb 14, 2021
Sunday Feb 14, 2021
- I talk to Robin Nicholson, who is an architect at Cullinan Studios, an architecture co-operative which has been designing innovative low carbon buildings for 65 years, some of which are now listed, using design strategies such as passive solar as early as 1970. He was a key force in the creation of the Edge Debate, a round table that encourages the Professional Institutions to work together to greater effect on public policy, setting standards like the Cross-Institutional Climate Action Plan for the construction industry and the Collaboration for Change report. We talk about:
- zero carbon schools and retrofitting
- are there enough tradesmen and engineers who can do the job? Er... no.
- whole life carbon calculations
- some of the techniques, technologies and materials for low carbon or low energy buildings
- how to smash energy efficiency targets in schools by putting an electricity display meter in the entrance and paying the kids to keep it down
- the UK government's success or lack of it with low carbon building policy
- regulations are good - so the industry can break them 😬
- the biggest challenge - making buildings that can be taken apart again and re-used
- Masdar, Teach The Future, user interaction design for machinery...Â
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