Expert in Sustainable Construction & Renewables, Passivhaus Consultant, Passivhaus Self-Builder and Public Speaker. All views my own.
Joined January 2009
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This picture should be on the front page of every newspaper and leading every news programme. Never let them normalise our descent into hell
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Please support this petition for 0% vat on deep retrofit:
change.org/p/uk-government-z… #greenrecovery #zerocarbonretrofit @RishiSunak @AlokSharma_RDG @elliereeves @JanetDaby @passivhausnews @ArchitectsCAN @XRLewisham @Archima @AECBnet @STBA_UK @asbp_uk @PassivhausTrust @enhabitfeed
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UK Government: Zero-rate VAT on deep retrofit/eco-refurbishment building works - Sign the Petition! chng.it/KyptB9W8 via @UKChange @asbp_uk @CIBSE @RICSnews @STBA_UK @PassivhausTrust @LETI_London @RetrofitWorks @AECBnet @archdeclare @sianberry @Ashden_org @AlokSharma_RDG
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We are hiring! Would you like to join WARM in Plymouth as a Passivhaus Consultant? Please see our website for further details: peterwarm.co.uk/vacancy-pass… #passivhaus
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Few have done more to champion the environment & fight for the welfare of our animals. @ZacGoldsmith truly cares. As someone who cares deeply about these issues too, I would be devastated it he wasn’t there fighting for them in Parliament. It would be an enormous loss. #BackZac
I may not be fully pro conservative at the moment but this is someone who’s values I’ve known for 30 years and they haven’t once altered regarding the environment, and I followed his lead into that arena many years later, although specialising in construction.
My brother @ZacGoldsmith has been perhaps Parliament’s most energetic and effective environmental campaigner for ten years. There aren’t enough genuinely nature-loving MPs. Zac was rescuing birds and hedgehogs aged six. Pls re-elect him Richmond Park!
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What can space travel tell us about insulating buildings? ggbec.co.uk/insulation-in-sp…
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Great decision!
Fracking makes so little sense for the UK. Among other things, it would require total industrialisation of the countryside before having even a minor impact on our gas imports.
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Next week (Weds PM) we're hosting a workshop to pull together a response to the Future Homes (part L/F) consultation on behalf of our AECB local group. Do come along aecb-local-group-partl-f-con… @AECBnet @MoreOurselves
Alex Baines retweeted
Winners! #stirlingprize #goldsmithstreet @riba #councilhousing
So, so proud to have been on the design team for this amazing project.
Alex Baines retweeted
Good luck to all the #passivhaus certified projects at the Sterling Prize this evening. And all the Social Housing ones.
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Consultation now open on proposed changes to Part L and F of the Building Regulations (closes 10/01/2020) gov.uk/government/consultati…
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My speech to the UN on climate & environment. It is hard to exaggerate the challenge we face, and yet our collective response doesn’t come close to matching the scale of the crisis. The UK intervention at the UN was fantastic, but there is much more to do.
Alex Baines retweeted
A history lesson for people who think that history doesn't matter:
What's the big deal about railroad tracks?
The US standard railroad gauge (distance between the rails) is 4 feet, 8.5 inches. That's an exceedingly odd number.
Why was that gauge used?
Well, because that's the way
Alex Baines retweeted
The thread I’ve been hanging on for - SF6
Okay, it's worth digging into precisely how bad this @BBCNews article on SF6 emissions by @MattMcGrathBBC is, which has been picked up by the climate denial and anti-wind farm groups around the world
Alex Baines retweeted
This is a neat example of how eminently resolvable challenges around the clean power transition are framed by deniers and ideologues as incurable curses, while actual scientists and engineers just get on with fixing them.
