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Off-grid solar power lighting up rural KenyaThis rapid transition has seen the booming of a private market since the early 1980s – with hundreds of thousands of Solar Home Systems (SHS) installed...
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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...
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Reclaiming power: The rapid rise of community renewable energy and why the added benefits of local, clean power can help accelerate transitionRenewable energy is on the rise. It made up more than a quarter of global electricity generation (27%) in 2019 and is outpacing all other energy sources’...
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...
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S**t matters – how the Covid-19 crisis reveals both progress and the challenge of universal sanitationNever has a resource crisis been brought so swiftly to the attention of the global North than when toilet paper was suddenly in short supply and even...
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The big rebuild: one-week zero-carbon home makeovers and setting new comfort levels‘Build, build, build’ is a call heard to boost economies trying to bounce back from the economic impact of the coronavirus crisis impact of the...
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The dash away from gas: how the Netherlands kicked a big fossil fuel habitOne of the biggest problems in making a rapid transition away from fossil fuels is because whole industries become dependent on them and infrastructures get...
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The first flush of transition: the rise of British indoor plumbing and what it tells us about rapid transitionA little over 100 years ago, most households in the UK did not have access to an indoor bathroom fitted with a toilet, bath, or even running water. The rise...
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The Great Switch – lessons from when 14 million homes and businesses changed fuel in less than a decadeIn 2019 the UK’s official advisor, the Committee on Climate Change (CCC), warned that the nation’s homes were ‘unfit for the challenges of climate...