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Sustainable Social Housing Refits
In my previous post I summarised AHURI’s set of interlinked research on circularity in housing. They found that there is a long way to...

Jon Eastgate
Sep 18, 20245 min read
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Building a Circular Economy in Housing
The Australian Housing and Urban Research Institute (AHURI) recently completed a series of linked research projects on the subject of...

Jon Eastgate
Aug 7, 20245 min read
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Getting Off Gas in Esperance
The recent article on transitioning away from gas provided an overview of the reasons to transition, some of the challenges involved and...

Jon Eastgate
Feb 14, 20243 min read
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Getting Off Gas
One of the major issues in household energy use at the moment is how quickly we can, and should, wean households off gas for cooking,...

Jon Eastgate
Feb 2, 20246 min read
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Extreme Green Buildings
A quick shout-out to the team at The Fifth Estate , who do a great job of spreading the word on zero carbon and environmentally-positive...

Jon Eastgate
Apr 13, 20231 min read
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Healthy Homes for Renters
On 10 March this year, a wide coalition of organisations launched a national blueprint for energy efficiency standards in rental homes. ...

Jon Eastgate
Mar 27, 20233 min read
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Sustainable House Day
I thought my readers might be interested in some upcoming events put on by Renew as an extension to their annual Sustainable House Day....

Jon Eastgate
Feb 25, 20231 min read
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Soft City
Among other priorities in the past couple of weeks I’ve been reading David Sim’s book, Soft City: Building Density for Everyday Life. Sim...

Jon Eastgate
Feb 6, 20234 min read
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