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Happy Friday people of Bluesky! Here’s a proper #followfriday option - a starter pack of some of the women leading the way in terms of climate action in/around buildings. Please feel free to suggest other names to add. go.bsky.app/Badwi8

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If you know a woman starting out in sustainability, please do let them know about this event we're putting on - great chance to build confidence and contacts.

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Officially opened CHH’s newest 55-unit affordable housing building. It represents the best of what cities can do to address the housing crisis. #PassiveHouse standard family and single units replace an under-utilized municipal parking lot with #BikeShare & #Communoauto memberships for residents.

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Issue 49 of Passive House Plus is available to read online now! Featuring a remarkable Enerphit in Gloucestershire, a tenement retrofit in Glasgow and a Cavan passive house that proved powercut proof in the recent storms. Plus the usual columns and news. mailchi.mp/passivehouse...

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3 out of 4 older people - more than 9 million people in the UK - admit their homes are colder than they would like because they can no longer afford to heat them. Research comes from charity Age UK which will hand in a petition to No10 today calling on the gov’t to 'Save The Winter Fuel Payment’

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Friends of the cultivated discourse, uncompromised efficiency, quality indoor environments protecting you in all climates. I am delighted that #Passivhaus #PassiveHouse #EnerPHit Wolfgang Feist is finally here. Follow please: @wolfgangfeist.bsky.social

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Do people really get what makes a green home? 🚗 🤔 Ranking 14th and last in our green homes essentials countdown, only 20.6% of respondents to the #Smarter4EU Green Homes Sentiment Survey said reduced car use is essential. Have your say in this two-minute survey www.surveymonkey.com/r/BYPQVJH

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Pathway to passive or road to ruin? As governments come under increasing pressure to make real and significant reductions in energy use and carbon emissions while tackling energy poverty, is there a way of adopting the key principles that make passive house work? mailchi.mp/passivehouse...

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Do people really get what makes a green home? 🚗 🤔 Ranking 14th and last in our green homes essentials countdown, only 20.6% of respondents to the #Smarter4EU Green Homes Sentiment Survey said reduced car use is essential. Have your say in this two-minute survey www.surveymonkey.com/r/BYPQVJH

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The Curse is available to buy on Apple TV!

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Low carbon timber home gives high comfort and tiny bills The proof in the pudding with a notionally low energy building is in the eating. The Murray family have found their heating costs have been scarcely believable, in a home that also blitzes embodied carbon targets. mailchi.mp/passivehouse...

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Low carbon timber home gives high comfort and tiny bills The proof in the pudding with a notionally low energy building is in the eating. The Murray family have found their heating costs have been scarcely believable, in a home that also blitzes embodied carbon targets. mailchi.mp/passivehouse...

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Canada got a reprieve from the tariffs, but the issue hasn't gone away. We should be building with local low-carbon materials that are grown, not mined. lloydalter.substack.com/p/for-green-...

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Extraordinary Dundee co-living home shows a new way Passive house stalwarts Kirsty Maguire Architects’ latest opus is an award-winning architectural, engineering, and sustainability feat – which asks questions not just about how we build, but how we live. shorturl.at/XERDB

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Extraordinary Dundee co-living home shows a new way Passive house stalwarts Kirsty Maguire Architects’ latest opus is an award-winning architectural, engineering, and sustainability feat – which asks questions not just about how we build, but how we live. shorturl.at/XERDB

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St Albans developer backs bio-based passive house plus The Thursday long read - Fancy owning an energy positive, timber-based passive house in one of the most desirable locations in England? A new development in Hertfordshire may be just the ticket. shorturl.at/fEEAq #passivehouse #passivhaus

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East London passive school promotes active learning In issue 13 of Passive House Plus, Ekaterina Tikhoniouk wrote how the head teachers of an East London school had put their interest in sustainable building to the test with results quickly paying off for their pupils. mailchi.mp/passivehouse...

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Misinformation isn't random - it's strategic. 🧵 In the first cross-national comparative study, we examine 32M tweets from politicians. We find that misinformation is not a general condition: it is driven by populist radical right parties. with @julianachueri.bsky.social doi.org/10.1177/1940...

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#Passivhaus is the enhanced standard & #AECB the baseline standard for Tai ar y Cyd NEW Pattern Book for Welsh #socialhousing providers. www.passivhaustrust.org.uk/news/detail/... @phaccelerator.bsky.social @phplus.bsky.social @aecb.bsky.social @ipha.bsky.social

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Passivhaus doesn't care about materials! One stubborn trope in some corners of green building is that Passivhaus is so focused on energy performance that it advocates ignoring materials. Not so, argues Greengauge's Toby Cambray. ggbec.co.uk/passivhaus-d... First featured: @phplus.bsky.social‬

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I designed this firewise house for the Marshall Fire rebuild in Colorado. The principles—Passive House plus fire-resistant exterior materials and landscaping—are good ones for areas subject to wildfires. harrisonarchitects.com/portfolio_it...

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And we're back! We start 2025 with a look back to a Simmons Mills Architects project, an eco village in Tanzania, when the #sustainablebuilding experts were asked to design a new school, housing and other facilities using the principles of #passivehouse design. mailchi.mp/passivehouse...

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‼️ 100% funding for retrofit course ‼️ 🙏 CITB employers network. ➡️ coaction.org.uk/courses/retr... 📆 time limited, so book early to take advantage. www.linkedin.com/posts/jon-da...

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This is better than banning smart phones from schools, this teaches children how to use them. This is what British education should be doing.

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Happy New Year! Start the year right by following a media mix that is citizen journalism and investigative journalism. The world we want… we have to build ourselves from the ground up.

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I was going to light a fire in our stove as a Christmas treat, but there’s no real need for it in a passivhaus. A candle works just fine 🕯️

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Oversized 12V fan to air test a 260m2 Passivhaus built by Dai Rees in Herefordshire. Couldn't get below 60 Pa on slowest fan speed. n50 of 0.07/h confirmed by Gervase Mangwana with a proper duct blaster. @marksiddall.bsky.social 's record stands for a house in the UK.

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My nine year old daughter Sadie built a passive house on Minecraft. A thread 1)

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Lengthy article from the FT about the largest source of primary fine particulates, PM2.5 in the UK, in the run up to peak 'cosy' burn week. The response from Defra has always been weak, and enforcement of smoke control area restrictions is impossible given LA finances. on.ft.com/4j1Z6jo via @FT

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The Thursday long read is getting its Christmas holidays today, and will be back in the new year, but we sign off 2024 with a good one. Can you achieve an A1 building when a narrow site facing away from the sun, paired with a stunning, architecturally expressive design? mailchi.mp/passivehouse...

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The power of images and social media. Thanks @lloydalter.bsky.social for making me famous. 😊🤞🦋

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On the walk back from school today I was talking to my 11 year old son, Rex, about a #passivehouse version of the iconic poster for Ridley Scott’s Alien to promote the mag I publish, @phplus.bsky.social. Within an hour he emailed me this. (PS he won’t see the movie till he’s old enough)

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Reminder: Drax is the UK's single largest carbon emitter.

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UK Inland bathing sites polluted with 'perfect storm'of chemical cocktails @bylinesnetwork.bsky.social @yorksbylines.bsky.social @bylinetimes.bsky.social yorkshirebylines.co.uk/region/uk-in...

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Passive House Plus magazine Top of the pile! @phplus.bsky.social Miltiadou Cook Mitzman #PassiveHouse #PassivHaus

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I know we should not need this list in 2024! But on Friday I was speaking with a woman who was pulling together an important conference/workshop/roundtable. No session chaired by a woman. Less than 10% women speakers. 🙏 @phplus.bluesky.social go.bsky.app/Badwi8

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In 2021 I was invited to give a talk about the world’s leading standard for low energy, comfortable buildings, passive, house, at TEDx in the lovely Irish town of Tralee. I learned so much from the experience - including how NOT to apply make up. 1)

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PLEASE SHARE, COMMENT, QUOTE, &/OR REPOST 1/x Folks here from algorithmically-fiddled apps complain of a lack of engagement. It’s on all of us (to some extent) “Likes” don’t really do anything here. When you like someone’s post it just creates a notification TO THEM ONLY that you liked it.

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I think Direct Air Capture (DAC) is nowhere near ready to deploy. It’s too expensive, faces huge engineering challenges, and diverts money and attention from better climate solutions. Let’s stop giving fossil fuels a fig leaf on the taxpayer’s dime. news.mongabay.com/2024/12/dire...

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Thanks for the shout out. Incorporating point source ventilation in passive homes is difficult. But it’s required for cooking emissions-there’s just no other way to control them. They will mix throughout your house in record time. Here’s our paper. scholar.colorado.edu/downloads/wd...

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