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The Edge has published a set of policy proposals for the built and natural environment to accelerate action to tackle climate change and ecological loss.
If you only have time to read one thing today, make it this. 🧵 #edgedebate #ClimateActionNow
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New Editorial! Disrupting the imaginaries of urban action to deliver just adaptation
New adaptation imaginaries will facilitate just adaptation and enable radical changes in the relationship between humans and their environment. How it can happen?
Read: buff.ly/4co85HW
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The authors conclude, “Helping people afford the housing stock that is available would be more cost effective than expanding new home construction in the hope that additional supply would bring prices down.”
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New Book Review! Healthy Urbanism. Designing and Planning Equitable, Sustainable and Inclusive Places By Helen Pineo
Bomin Kim reviews this excellent book that provides a actionable guide to create equitable, inclusive and sustainable urban environments.
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@erbecdt @UCL_Energy @LboroABCE @MaREIcentre @polimi @PWr_Wroclaw @iiSBE_org @EdgeDebate @WSofArchi @UniRdg_Arc @tudelft
Announcing the 2024 PhD VIDEO CHALLENGE.
Calling all #PhD candidates doing built enviroment research! Create a 2-minute video that tells the world about the significance of your research. The theme is “WHY IT MATTERS”. buildingsandcities.org/video… @BuildingsCities @ARL_Hannover
Friends of the Edge, we are now on LinkedIn! Give us a follow and don’t forget to tag us in your posts!
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How will processes like retrofitting and life cycle assessment help us reach net zero? Join us on Wednesday 29 November for a webinar exploring energy saving in the built environment, with Steve Fernandez @Arup and Jane Anderson @constructionlca
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join me tonight for the #CityofLondon Winter #UrbanClimate walk w. Dimple Rana @cibsehcnw (ARUP) Explore how urban climates & climate change impact cities beyond #overheating Discuss sheltering effects UHI benefits & more #UrbanClimateTour #ResilientCities eventbrite.co.uk/e/cibse-hcn…
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It's taken me nearly 3 yrs to write, involving over 80 hours of interviews with some of the world's leading #circulareconomy thinkers, practitioners & enablers. Now the Second Edition of @RIBA RE-USE ATLAS is finally complete. #Reuse
Pre-Order now
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we are - #CIBSE_HCNW have orginised one for next week eventbrite.co.uk/e/cibse-hcn…
feel free to come along and say hi!
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New: DATA POLITICS IN THE BUILT ENVIRONMENT
Datafication processes are far from neutral & foster exclusion. This @BuildingsCities special issue explores (often invisibile) practices, politics & power implications of data-driven buildings & cities
buildingsandcities.org/journ…
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READ THIS: Impact of 2050 tree shading strategies on building #cooling demands.
Using proxy neighbourhood models, the boldest tree planting strategy (16% canopy cover) reduced neighbourhood-scale building cooling energy demand by 48%. #urbanplanning
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Catch up on this brilliant event here if you missed it!
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Aecom are researching the Impacts to Business of Carrying Out Whole Life Carbon Assessments (WLCAs) on behalf of DLUHC. Please consider filling out the enclosed survey if you are involved in whole life carbon assessments.
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Wealth tax of 0.5% could cover UK’s share of loss and damage fund, says charity theguardian.com/environment/…. A good step in the right direction maybe but why don’t we move the whole system to a pollster pays operation - water, air travel, food etc @EdgeDebate
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Fossil fuel firms owe climate reparations of $209bn a year, says study theguardian.com/environment/…. Don’t we need to restructure our economy on a polluter pays principle?@EdgeDebate @BuildingsCities @CullinanStudio
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This is getting ridiculous.
OISST provides a real-time daily index of ocean surface temperature (60 S - 60 N). For the last month it has been continuously reading higher than in any previous year and still shows no sign of settling.
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How will different possible social and behavioural changes affect the path to net zero?
Read the Government Office for Science report featuring UK energy systems modelling from @UCL_Energy and @UCL_ISR researchers using our UK TIMES model.
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📣📣📣 Come do a #PhD with me and @ArchitypeUK @erbecdt @UCL_IEDE @TheBartlettPhD on #health & #wellbeing in #lowenergy #lowcarbon #netzero #Passivhaus buildings!
Click here to apply: bit.ly/3MubGK6
Deadline: 7 May
#findaPhD #PhDchat #PhDposition
📣 UCL is now recruiting for a fully funded 4 year PhD research project in partnership with
@ArchitypeUK
📖 "Empirical assessment of health and wellbeing in low energy buildings." Start date: Sept 23
🗓 Deadline 07/03/23
Details & how to apply: erbecdt.ac.uk/news/4-year-uc…
@UCL_IEDE
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Thanks Sophie. We never did need to build tall if we plan our towns and cities efficiently and stop uncontrolled land value speculation -we need an effective planning system @CullinanStudio @EdgeDebate
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Simon Foxell launches the Edge Policy Proposals session @FuturebuildNow @EdgeDebate @CullinanStudio
