Ran Boydell
@ranboydell.bsky.social
Australian architect working in Aus+UK, pioneer of sustainable homes, built environment research, posts on #climatechange #netzero #architecture #housing #ecoart #leadership “Capacity is a state of mind.” David Schwartz www.ecohus.net #allmyownwork
This is a masterclass in great urbanism. Mixed-use development, tons of green, wonderful bike infrastructure, and even some space for the car. It's a shame that so many developments are mediocre when such beautiful examples exist. 📍Little C, Rotterdam
Part audio workshop, part concert hall, listening room, and family home – enter the custom-built woodland hideaway where Listude speakers come to life www.wallpaper.com/tech/listude...
Conceived in 1970, Pierre Paulin's Dune seating landscape is part of Fred Again.. and Latin Mafia's collaborative mixtape, '9 months & 50 hours', recorded at LagoAlgo in Mexico City, with a spatial installation by Paulin, Paulin, Paulin www.wallpaper.com/design-inter...
At this Arizona home by architecture studio A-I-R, light, shadow, and form interplay in a minimalist elegance constructed using simple concrete masonry units and stucco www.wallpaper.com/architecture...
“I do think there is a capacity to do things differently and using technology and imagination and clever design to actually have a city where there is more nature… Imagine a city that is, in effect, a nature reserve, where people are living in a nature reserve.” Shiv Malik
How ambitious ‘forest city’ plan for England could become a reality
Cross-party coalition behind proposals hope eco-friendly scheme for million people could begin before end of decade
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"David’s also challenged on whether carbon capture and carbon removal genuinely help tackle climate change, or if they offer oil companies an excuse to continue operating as usual. And is continued economic growth compatible with protecting the planet?"
Radical - Could Climate Engineering Do More Bad Than Good for the Environment? (Your Radical Questions with Professor David Keith) - BBC Sounds
Professor David Keith answers your questions about geoengineering.
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I was in a friend’s rental car and in place of a rear-view mirror there was a mirror-sized digital video feed of the back of the car. They replaced one of the most reliable & intuitive safety features in a car with a digital surrogate that could glitch at any moment. KEEP ANALOG SAFTEY FEATURES
We're not going to stop climate change unless we phase out fossil fuels.
Oil giant BP profits more than double due to Iran war - again
The "strong" three-month results come amid "one of the most disrupted periods in the global energy market".
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Italy to make full use of EU budget leeway for energy spending, FinMin says reut.rs/4fGoCLi
Italy to make full use of EU budget leeway for energy spending, FinMin says
Italy intends to make full use of budget leeway allowed by a European Union "escape clause" from the bloc's budget rules to fund measures aimed at softening energy costs, Economy Minister Giancarlo Giorgetti said on Wednesday.
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Climate disaster and record fossil fuel profits because of a war? How did that happen! www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
War! What is it good for? Absolutely humongous oil company profits | First Dog on the Moon
Mission accomplished
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Australia's new data centres must be majority renewable powered, says minister reut.rs/4fzW85W
Australia's new data centres must be majority renewable powered, says minister
Australia’s energy minister Chris Bowen said on Wednesday that plans by the Northern Territory to use its large-scale shale gas resources to power data centres would run counter to proposed national standards, casting doubt over the Territory's ambition to attract multi-billion dollar tech investments.
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I fear we might see a new alignment between a radical right death cult and a rural revivalist "simplicity" drive, which views collapse and a return to "organic" communities as a solution to decadent urbanism. A century ago this convergence led to a very bad place. www.monbiot.com/2023/10/04/t...
The Cruel Fantasies of Well-Fed People
The astonishing story of how a movement’s quest for rural simplicity drifted into a formula for mass death
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Maybe it's just me, but I'm not hearing anything from politicians about the need to retrofit our buildings and change the way we heat them. Is this intentional, because dissatisfied people in precarious circumstances tend to vote for right-wing parties? Why are the 'social' parties complicit here?
I am a straw builder because it's fun and 1000% worth the effort. The future is right here and it's comfy and regenerative. I will share my knowledge about building passive house modules and retrofit #strawhouse panels on the 1. December. It's free. You can do this. docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
"Unfortunately, this pursuit of self-interest can only take the clean energy transition so far. The idea that incremental individual decisions will be enough to curb the threat of climate disaster is a fantasy. Governments must keep tilting the playing field, for three reasons." Noah Gordon
The global green transition won’t be driven by self-interest alone
States must actively tilt the playing field on renewable energy too
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'The big question in such circumstances is: why are the young often quiescent when their very lives and future livelihoods are in real danger?' Climate change rebellion, anyone? Aussie Gen Z says...Meh! ~ Dr Mark Beeson independentaustralia.net/environment/...
Climate change rebellion, anyone? Aussie Gen Z says...Meh!
Why are the young often quiescent when their very lives and future livelihoods are in real danger?
independentaustralia.net
Emerging Benin-based studio Atelier Ko features in the Wallpaper* Architects Directory 2026 - here, we flag their Maison Itan, a contemporary restoration www.wallpaper.com/architecture...
"On average, property prices in Australia’s eight capital cities are still up by 47.7% from their lows in the early stages of the pandemic, 144% from their lows during the global financial crisis of 2008-09, 365% since the turn of the century, and by 1,007% over the past 40 years." Saul Eslake
Homes in Australia are now cheaper – why can’t the government sell this good news story? | Saul Eslake
Ministers love to claim credit for things like cheaper petrol and cheaper pharmaceuticals – why not cheaper housing?
theguardian.com
The power of the ☀️helps keep tribal elders safe in Wisconsin
Menominee Nation elders are getting solar and battery systems » Yale Climate Connections
The installations help keep electricity flowing at this Wisconsin reservation even when a major storm knocks out grid power.
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"Major European building projects are using biomaterials to ditch concrete" worldbiomarketinsights.com/wooden-high-...
Wooden high-rises and hemp heritage homes - World Bio Market Insights
Major European building projects are using biomaterials to ditch concrete
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Homeowners associations are an often overlooked but influential force in environmental policy. While HOAs often stand in the way of residential environmental sustainability, conservation social scientists believe they could instead build bridges. theconversation.com/hoas-are-oft...
The draft ISO Net Zero Standard is currently out for public consultation. What does it mean for businesses? Join our Serviced Emissions Hub tomorrow from 10:30–11:30am BST for a webinar on what's in it & how to participate in the consultation. Sign up here: luma.com/e16iv97p @smithschool.ox.ac.uk
The draft ISO Net Zero Standard: Headline takeaways and how to participate in the public consultation · Luma
ISO 14060 is set to become the first independently verifiable international standard for net zero transition planning, aligned with the Paris Agreement.…
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“We need to make efforts for a fundamental overhaul of the national crisis system, since this extreme weather is becoming normal.” President Lee Jae Myung
Seoul braces for heatwave sweeping South Korea as death toll reaches 16
Trucks are dousing capital’s roads with water and nurses are checking on vulnerable people as heat heads westwards
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"The climate movement is a peace movement, a movement to end this war and its casualties." @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social
We launched a war on nature. Now we are in a climate warzone | Rebecca Solnit
Summer is not what it once was. We have been robbed of one of life’s great joys
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Back on here to thank @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social "It’s as if we launched a war against nature, and that has turned place after place into something that resembles a war zone. The climate movement is a peace movement, a movement to end this war and its casualties." www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
We launched a war on nature. Now we are in a climate warzone | Rebecca Solnit
Summer is not what it once was. We have been robbed of one of life’s great joys
theguardian.com
Appreciate this is 'make it make sense' howling into the void, but the failure (with some exceptions) of government, politicians, media, and business to point at the heatwaves and fires and state 'this is why climate action matters' is a serious problem. www.businessgreen.com/blog-post/45...
Summertime silence
The right of British politics has stepped up its attacks on climate action in recent weeks, so why has the rest of the political spectrum largely failed to seize the 'teachable moment' presented by cr...
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