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Anthropocene Magazine

#greenbuilding. When researchers auto-generated small apartment floor plans to make them efficient and comfortable, they found they could often reduce carbon emissions more than by changing the building exterior

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Anthropocene · An overlooked solution for climate-friendly buildings: Better floor plansWhen researchers auto-generated small apartment floor plans to make them efficient and comfortable, they found they could often reduce carbon emissions more than by changing the building exterior
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KatLS

@seachanger but we’ll have to think about something else and there are already 200 flavors of breakfast cereal to confront- 🙄we have priority problems in America when what we need to attend to are structural issues of all kinds that build in sickness, disease, inequality, and waste.
Can health be more profitable than sickness? Who knows? We should try it and see.
#infrastructure
#greenbuilding

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Definitely Doc D

Bravo, heat pumps!

Big tax credits for these in Biden's big climate action law, the Inflation Reduction Act and more rolling out. Plus 25 states have their own incentives, so check yours.

No gas leaks, no oil deliveries, and
"magically efficient" - uses just a third or a quarter of the energy

Imagine what that does for your bills - and greenhouse gas emissions 🌳

#climateaction #hvac #greenbuilding #cleanenergy

grist.org/energy/heat-pumps-ou

Grist · Heat pumps outsold gas furnaces again last year — and the gap is growingBy Alison F. Takemura, Canary Media
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Sally Strange

Fuck, I got a #FF shout-out from Bread and Circuses. Better do that intro I've been meaning to (re) do! Hello, new followers! :heart_pride:​

Who am I: a lady, a bitch, a woman, a human. Cisgender, queer, white. Living in New York, where I was born, but I have traveled. Doing my best to support my Darling Nonbinary Spouse in their challenges being one of very few Black people in our community. Currently working as a drafter of soil/water conservation infrastructure. Before that, I bounced around a lot. Did construction and childcare and food service and data entry and more.

What you can expect from me: PLENTY boosts. I see it, I like it, I boost. Regular posts about #ClimateChange, #Degrowth, #GreenBuilding, and related topics. Commentary about social justice. Some news, but more opinion, about USA and NYS politics. I tag these (USpol/NYpol), but don't CW them. Edit: almost forgot to mention: I'm an anarchist apparently (I had to look it up) and I hate capitalism.

Other, less weighty stuff I like to talk about: #music of any genre. I'm developing the desire to become a DJ and collect vinyl, somebody stop me! #Crochet and fiber arts. #SciFi, #SpecFic. Not a skilled shitposter but I do appreciate the art form.

Fair warning: I like to argue. If you don't enjoy seeing someone go back and forth with mildly offensive bootlickers from time to time, I may not be your cup of tea. And don't worry about my mental health WRT arguments, to my brain a good argument is a lot like a good video game.

That's my #introduction! Ask me anything.

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Sally Strange

"Eco-building and eco-living appear as essential steps in struggling climate change. Impacting both human and natural systems, architectural design plays a crucial role in this process. Scientific fields, such as sociology, economics, ecology and ideology, study ecovillages and intentional communities, but often forget the importance of their built environments. However, history of architecture can provide an original point of view. In this article, ecovillages are studied as whole entities acting on several levels of architectural design—from dwellings to territories, from spatial to social organization, from local to worldwide networks."

#Climate #ClimateChange #EcoVillages #Architecture #GreenBuilding #SolarPunk #Ecology #BuiltEnvironment

nature.com/articles/s44168-023

NatureEco-building for eco-living, an essential step to face climate change - npj Climate ActionThe article provides an historical overview of ecological design within the context of intentional communities. It explores how this design approach has evolved over time and emphasizes its significant contributions to the struggle against climate change. The key principles used by ecovillages (renewable energies, waste recycling, water consumption, voluntary simplicity and degrowing economies, shared governance) are recalled, bringing into light interactions between eco-housing and eco-living designs at all scales. The paper discusses the various challenges faced by ecovillages, such as the need to deeply articulate their own project to a local territory, while simultaneously being part of international networks. The demonstration argues that ecovillages already act, and could have a wider potential to promote sustainable living if they were considered as “setting an example”. The critical discussion acknowledges the difficulty in quantifying ecovillages’ current contributions. However, for their qualitative potential, they are seen as a valuable and strong potential resource in the fight against global warming. In summary, the article highlights the holistic approach of ecovillages in addressing all climate change issues and suggests considering them as laboratories for “empathic” architecture.
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