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Charged up: breakthroughs in battery technology are rapidly draining demand for fossil fuelsAt the outset of the millennium, evidence-based hope for a rapid energy transition was consistently challenged by the critical matter of storage. Generating...
Commentary
Vaccine Verse: medicine for our timesVaccine Verse by the Plague Poets This volume of poetry from troubling times emerges on National Poetry Day and at a time when global and local challenges...
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London’s ‘Great Stink’ of 1858: how a rapid policy response stopped the stenchIn 2022 raw human waste was pumped into the United Kingdom’s rivers and seas 825 times per day on average. Modern Britain has a big, steaming sewage...
Commentary
Rapid transition to beat the heat – HousingUK homes are not built to handle the heat. Most of them were designed and constructed for a much cooler climate where extreme heat events were rarer and...
Story of change
Keeping cool without costing the earthIn May 2022 temperatures in India and Pakistan reached 50°C. Heat this fierce causes chaos to infrastructure, water security and also triggers irreversible...
Commentary
An alternative energy strategy to stimulate rapid transitionAll around the world, governments’ energy policies are at a crossroads. In order to insulate themselves from dependence on Russian oil and gas, tackle...
Story of change
Goodbye gas: making the global leap to heat pumpsThe humble heat pump, a clean energy technology, is making a late global leap to help wean homes off fossil fuels and slow the climate crisis. The shift is...
Reset series
Repair and maintenance – how we learned to use our hands againThe human urge to mend, repair and improve is nothing new – it has just been forgotten and gone untrained, buried under an avalanche of mass produced...
Commentary
A one-stop shop for greener homesIt is about time the UK government got to grips with retrofitting existing housing to scale up home energy efficiency across the country. One way to do this...