REdimension Capital has closed it ~USD 14 M Real Estate Technology & Sustainability Fund I, backing early-stage proptech startups in South Africa| WeeTracker
□ TOM ACKERS puts the case for a universal programme to retrofit the UK’s housing stock with insulation, in this edited excerpt from his new pamphlet. In a linked article here, he argues that a strategy to decarbonise home heating must rely first of all on electrification and heat pumps □ The whole pamphlet, Remaking […]| People and Nature
□ Electrification and the installation of heat pumps should be the principle technology for decarbonising homes in the UK, TOM ACKERS argues in this edited excerpt from his new pamphlet. In a linked article here, he assesses the great potential for reducing energy throughput by retrofitting buildings with insulation. □ The whole pamphlet, Remaking Home […]| People and Nature
□ Heat pumps and insulation are the keys to decarbonising home heating in a socially just way, TOM ACKERS argues in this edited excerpt from his new pamphlet. In a linked article here, he surveys fuel poverty and the UK’s broken, inadequate mechanisms for monitoring it □ The whole pamphlet, Remaking Home Heating in the […]| People and Nature
□ Fuel poverty in the UK is exacerbated by the poor condition of millions of people’s homes – and methods such as the government Energy Performance Certificates are woefully inadequate, TOM ACKERS argues in this edited excerpt from his new pamphlet. In a linked article here, he puts the case for an integrated approach to […]| People and Nature
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The Toronto waterfront is home to the largest colony of cormorants in North America. And now they're spreading—squawking, puking, leaving toxic guano. Inside the fight between residents, conservationists, and governments over the most divisive and persecuted bird on the planet.| The Local
Growing a city means constantly pushing up against the border between the urban and the wild. From coyotes to cormorants, how do we share space with creatures we don’t always like?| The Local
A version of this post was published in the Indiana Historical Society’s Traces of Indiana and Midwestern History 34, no. 4 (Fall 2022). On the first Monday in November 1801, a landowner name…| The Indiana History Blog
PARTNER VOICES | An interview with Paula Champagne, the artist behind the new mural at the Natural Capital Center The post New art in the Natural Capital Center: An interview with Paula Champagne appeared first on Ecotrust.| Ecotrust
Suspended: If we were to imagine an ecosystem as a shifting body of water, then your CF3 chairs are carefully designed pebbles, dropped in the waters of Forsyth Plaza, and the ripple carefully docu…| Suspended Reason
“West Hammond has been electrified of late by what a woman—a woman of intelligence, of action and indomitable courage—can accomplish.” -Munster Times, 1911 The woman described by the Ti…| The Indiana History Blog
Ruth Peters and Ken Shay conceived of the idea for the Diversity Center in 1993, a time when there were… Read More »Diversity Center| Encyclopedia of Indianapolis
As we near the end of Week 1 of the COP28, there is consensus that ambition needs to rise quickly. Accelerated timelines & mobilization of expanded funds for transformational climate action are…| Climate Value Exchange
Eco-building, cob, straw-bale, tiny houses--this article explores a wide range of green building techniques.| Free Permaculture
Atlanta sits at the center of the history of public housing in America. We were home to the country’s first-ever federally-funded public housing complex, Techwood Homes, in 1936. A little over half…| mapping atlanta
Last month, we shared a snapshot of the landscape of large corporate single family landlords across metro Atlanta, showing that just the top ten of these companies own over 30,000 properties here i…| mapping atlanta