Building Healthy Housing for the Planet

Buildings have a huge carbon footprint, both from the materials and energy used in construction and from emissions once the building is inhabited. Here, we present new methods of building that actually sequester carbon, use fewer damaging materials in construction and require less energy to heat and cool.

#ChrisMagwood, architect and author of Building Beyond Zero: New Ideas for Carbon-Smart Architecture, #LloydAlter, architect, developer, and author of Living the 1.5 Degree Lifestyle: Why Individual Climate Action Matters More Than Ever, and our own Mike Coe, who designed and built two energy efficient houses, and now lives in one of them on the Isle of Skye in Scotland, take us through exciting developments in #Architecture.

[EmeraldView]

This would have been great! 40 years ago.

[hipser]

Really good show. I want a mycelium house that prints itself..

[LittleNoiseBoy]

Most inspirational, thank you! I suspected - but didn't know for certain until watching - just how embedded our few major hutch builders (in the UK) are with government. A disgrace that must be overcome to take advantage of the many exciting possibilities your guests describe.

[margaretbeasley]

Great video! Margaret really likes it xx

[tinacurran]

Really inspiring. I want to share with all the builders - and homeowners - and people who live in houses!

[margaretbeasley]

Margaret Beasley our building work was completed before early 21st dentury. We had first generation solar panels and retro fitted DIY insulation roof & walls on an old one. Mike Coe made such a good case for not being too nit picking about fine detail. I learnt a lot from this video.

[o_o]

4:39 the recent IPCC report said that "a quantum leap in climate action" is immediately needed to stay under 1.5C. Can we stop pretending like staying under 1.5C is plausible?

[cbgregoire]

Really enjoyed this and am very interested having a home like this. Well done.

[redrockcrf]

In terms of embodied carbon, given that most houses had emissions impact, the real shame is when those houses aren't durable, or when we tear them down just to make a new, bigger one. For a time, before the current housing bubble, it was as if "fast-fashion" had come to houses. As per your guests are saying, if those houses had been built better and with more of an eye for the future, we would be facing less construction now and less emissions now.

[toyotaprius]

Depends who owns and plans housing, free market capital venture on people's rents, or social housing.

[lordcrunk]

All buildings, with a temperature/humidity controlled interior space MUST! be built with a totally passive outer thermal envelope. Ricebales are said to have 2x the R value of strawbales. Even beneath the slab or foundation. Build passively insulated skyscrapers, cities.

[GodiscomingBhappy]

just a thought....carbon is us, co2 is the gas of life, the food for the trees that makes life wonder why we would reduce that?

[caterthun]

In UK The new houses built by those box house builders are dreadful. They allow building estates in flood planes. They are install gas supplies without under floor heating. Even the roof design is so poor it needs extra support installed to take the weight of solar at a future modification. .. You are correct its the politicians that are failing us

[o_o]

10:23 is this guy supposed to be a climate expert? it's well known that Europe is warmer than N. America because of ocean currents, so I don't see how it's useful to make that comparison.

[ClimateTv]

Why Dale is wasting her time on such things?? Rather she should enjoy her life at the fullest. We haven't reached the bottleneck, we have reached the hell and its coming much sooner than expected. God she got such a lovely smile alongside Peter Wadhams, an adorable pair to watch in discussion and debates. May god bless them 👍