Is the pursuit of “zero carbon†in the built environment a symbolic act of ritualistic cleansing and purification? Or a kind of penance? Since there will always be carbon dioxide in the atmosphere resulting from natural processes, why is zero so important for anthropogenic carbon dioxide? Just a thought.
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The German standard for low energy buildings, Passivhaus, is flavour of the month in the UK at the moment. The very first SuDoBE project was a collaboration with BRE Wales to discover the best ways to disseminate the knowledge and information the construction industry in Wales would need to meet the aspiration for new buildings [...]
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The current wave of social networking applications is often referred to as Web 2.0 to differentiate it from the first wave, which ended in the dot-com crash and burn of the late 1990s, early 2000s. Web 2.0 has many features it uses to contrast with Web 1.0. Under Web 2.0, sites are in continuous revision, [...]
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This house (“Crossway†in Kent) was the subject of a recent Grand Designs programme. It claims to be one of the first “zero carbon houses in the UK†which in itself is interesting since the jury is still out on exactly what zero carbon means. Leaving aside the small matter of the absence of an [...]
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Politicians love the concept of ‘zero.’ It sounds firm and precise. It conjures up a business-like, tough, no-nonsense approach. That’s probably why ‘zero tolerance’ of crime garnered such widespread support in the US. Presumably the goal of declaring that all future buildings should be zero carbon was intended to elicit the same level of approval [...]
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This post on the carbon limited blog puts some numbers to the problem of reducing carbon dioxide emissions from housing and underlines the fact that most of the problem lies with the houses we have already built. Why do focus so much attention on zero carbon new build?
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Popularity: 11% [?]
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