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News Howgate Close: Is this a third way?
4th August 2021
A rhetorical question asked by Professor Ian Rotherham when recently introduced to ‘Howgate Close’ by Dr Chris Parsons.
‘Howgate Close’ offers many solutions, not least attending to recent issues raised by the European Environment Agency.
News ‘Howgate Close’, rural housing by numbers
22nd July 2021
Literally describing ‘Howgate Close’ by numbers gets us closer to a formulaic solution for replicable rural housing.
News ‘Howgate Close’, a replicable rural housing solution
13th July 2021
‘Howgate Close’ brokers a replicable model that can provide both rural housing and wood pastures for every village in the country.
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Blog Dial Cottage: A Journey Towards Decarbonisation
Civilisation is in the midst of a transition to a post-hydrocarbon era. Adapting to this future challenge requires living without resort to fossil fuels for power, transportation and heating. Transitioning our homes to operate free of their reliance on fossil-fuels involves decarbonising its construction process and its operation in use. The UK’s journey towards decarbonisation has already started with the declaration of a ‘Climate Change Emergency’. South Norfolk District Council’s own declaration in February 2019 was a call to action in preparing communities;
Blog Getting Homes Ready To Operate In A Post-Hydrocarbon Era
Houses, if they are to remain fit for purpose transitioning to a post-hydrocarbon era, will need to operate free of fossil fuels. It may also be necessary for these homes to have an off-grid capability given recent National Grid concerns over future grid capacity. If predictions of a warming climate and population increase prove accurate, then another building imperative could be to include better conservation and harvesting of our most precious finite resource, water. But the biggest challenge, will almost certainly be heating these fossil-fuel-free homes.
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