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Roadmaps for fuel poverty and retrofit: we know what needs to be done so why can’t we do it? With Tania Jennings (Chair of the Association of Local Energy Officers, London)

Roadmaps for fuel poverty and retrofit: we know what needs to be done so why can’t we do it? With Tania Jennings (Chair of the Association of Local En…

FromZero Ambitions Podcast


Roadmaps for fuel poverty and retrofit: we know what needs to be done so why can’t we do it? With Tania Jennings (Chair of the Association of Local En…

FromZero Ambitions Podcast

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Length:
81 minutes
Released:
Nov 28, 2023
Format:
Podcast episode

Description

We invited Tania Jennings back. Most folk in the retrofit or social housing space will probably be aware of Tania from LinkedIn and the myriad jobs she has. If you don’t know her yet, check her LinkedIn.Anyway, she wrote a thing for Architect’s Journal about fuel poverty, Covid, and inevitably retrofit and it was excellent. It sparked a conversation about why we’re barely making a dent in resolving the massive pile of retrofit problems in front of us, one that seemed ripe for the podcast, so we brought Jeff and Alex into it too.Broadly, we need better roadmaps and collaboration to enable the change we want to see. We know that the solutions are, it's just that we're not able to deploy them if we carry on going about things the way we currently are. Notes from the show
Tania's article: Poor housing and Covid deaths: it’s the same damn map

Wikipedia's page on Manthusianism

The Association of Local Energy Officers (you don't need to have that specific job title to join their ranks)
Check the National Retrofit Hub

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Follow us on the Zero Ambitions LinkedIn page

Jeff, Alex, and Dan about websites, branding, and communications - zap@eiux.agency; Everything is User Experience

Subscribe and advertise with Passive House Plus (UK edition here too)
Check Lloyd's Substack: Carbon Upfront

Join ACAN

Join the AECB 
Join the IGBC

Check out Her Own Space, the renovation and retrofit platform for women (but not in a patronizing way)
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Released:
Nov 28, 2023
Format:
Podcast episode

Titles in the series (100)

Zero Ambitions is a podcast about sustainability, the built environment, and zero-carbon goals. We talk about how sustainability applies to the built environment, to draw attention to the achievability of it all, wherever there is the will to make a difference. It's not easy, but it is possible. Hosted by Jeff Colley (Passive House Plus), Dan Hyde (Everything is User Experience) and Alex Blondin (Everything is User Experience) Zero ambitions is a hub for sharing good practices, advice, stories about the importance of sustainable building, retrofit, performance, efficiency, new materials, strategies, and whatever needs to be done in order to meet the collective challenges that lie ahead.