Green Buildings: Cooking Without Gas
It may surprise many that some of our biggest fossil fuel uses are inside our homes – with the appliances that heat and cool water and air, dry our clothes and cook our food. But government funding, new technology and home building improvements are changing the way we think about constructing and living inside our homes and buildings to rely less on fossil fuels.
Climate One · Climate One from The Commonwealth Club
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Show Notes
It’s become common for homeowners to install solar panels to provide themselves with emission-free electricity. But increasingly more attention is being paid to decarbonizing things inside the home – the machines that heat and cool water and air, dry our clothes and cook our food. The Inflation Reduction Act includes many ways for homeowners and renters to start to electrify their lives. And in some places, builders are developing highly efficient, all electric homes from the get-go. What more is needed to make our buildings greener and get away from fossil fuels?
Guests:
Mark Chambers, Sr. Director Building Emissions & Community Resilience, White House Council on Environmental Quality
Bruce Nilles, Executive Director, Climate Imperative
Contributing Producer: Cody Short, WBHM
For show notes and related links, visit ClimateOne.org
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