🌞 interests: energy poverty, home performance, heat pumps & good jobs | 🌜interests: friendship, belonging, dignity, meaning | not here any more
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Our off-the-cuff chat might be a little rough around the edges, so lets unpack.
Summary: we'd decarbonize/electrify better/faster when white-collar policy makers/shapers work *with* blue-collar (HVAC) technicians, rather than design programs *for* them from afar. 1/
What culture is going to drive residential electrification?
Hint: it's not white collar culture. Communities of practice are one piece, which HVAC 2.0 does among other functions.
An impromptu discussion with @akantamn
youtube.com/watch?v=9eEysGwL…
I was very lucky to be able to catch a bit of @Skills_Canada event in Winnipeg this year and lucky to have witnessed some Canada’s next generation of skilled tradespeople. Such a fantastic initiative to help young people find meaningful work.
youtu.be/aimo5jYZ23w
Abhi from Canada 🇨🇦 retweeted
HVAC contractors work in the nasty parts of homes. As did I as an insulation contractor.
The work needs to pay well or it won’t get done, or at least not done well.
Abhi from Canada 🇨🇦 retweeted
Want boots on the ground home electrification knowledge? And analysis of the challenge with hvac contractors?
Check out @akantamn and I’s Boundary Spanners podcast.
This is a wicked heavy lift!
bit.ly/BSpodSpotify
#electrifyeverything #HVAC
How to make room for - in thinking about energy policy - for the ordering of our inner lives?
Where to begin accounting for things like - your sense of honour and dignity that bind you to a certain way of being? 1/
However, we are all not merely fragmented automatons that can be nudged into certain 'preferred' policy pathways to maximize our private utility. 7/
Takeaways from 2 months spent driving 15k kms across 🇺🇸/🇨🇦
1) Home is where you're missed
2) There's an epidemic of profound loneliness & a devastating decline of social relations, in communities of all kinds- from coal towns in WV to software suburbs of WA
3) Wither antidote?
Same patterns come up in nearly every conversation with all kinds of people. Concerns about
> Uprootedness from and disenchantment with places
> Erosion of shared spaces and corrosion of shared aspirations
> Hostile fragmentation of attention and affection
Embarking on a cross-country 'goodwill tour' of 🇺🇸 next week to forge deeper ties between our two great nations ....
but mostly to learn first-hand about HVAC & home performance biz models from the best in business - #hvac20 @jeffdoug26 @energysmartwv @EfficiencyLast et al
Sometime this month, I'd have lived here in 🇨🇦 longer than I did in the 🇺🇸.
I have very fond memories of the people, places and my 'hometowns' of the US, but the enduring legacy of my time there will be : fully internalizing this disposition to Self and life .
What do folks make of this?
Nearly a third (4.5 M) of all 🇨🇦 homes have both a central AC for cooling AND a forced air furnace for heating.
What if - at end of life - either of those systems was replaced with a single heat pump that could do both? 🤔
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This is a horrifying piece on #climate, dripping with contempt for poor people from developing countries. Aside from just being wrong, these malthusian arguments increasingly come from people who can't seem to stop talking about saving the planet.
scientificamerican.com/artic…
