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AJ Climate Champions podcast: ACAN founding member Sara Edmonds on ramping up domestic retrofit
Architect and ACAN campaigner Sara Edmonds on forging collaborative networks for household retrofit
Podcasts
The AJ’s podcasts, including AJ Climate Champions hosted by Hattie Hartman. Find AJ Climate Champions on your favourite podcast app: subscribe via Spotify, Apple podcasts, YouTube, Deezer and Podbean
AJ Climate Champions podcast: John Christophers’ zero carbon home generates 40% energy surplus
Architect John Christophers explains how the zero carbon retrofit of his Birmingham terraced home has sparked community activism and a pilot project with Kate Raworth’s Doughnut Economics Action Lab
AJ Climate Champions podcast: Lessons from AHMM’s Stirling Prize-winning Burntwood School building performance study
AHMM associate and building performance expert Craig Robertson shares surprising findings from a post-occupancy study of the Stirling Prize-winning Burntwood School with crucial insights on closing the performance gap
AJ Climate Champions podcast: Judit Kimpian on why building performance studies are crucial for net zero
Architect and environmental design expert Judit Kimpian discusses energy security, spiralling energy costs and her book, Energy|People|Buildings – win one of three copies in our giveaway
AJ Climate Champions podcast: AKT II’s Hanif Kara on CLT virtue signalling and concrete innovations
Structural engineer Hanif Kara, co-founder of AKT II, shares insights from his new book on CLT yet argues that concrete is here to stay
AJ Climate Champions podcast: Marina Tabassum on why climate crisis isn’t a geographic problem
Bangladeshi architect and 2021 Soane Medal winner Marina Tabassum describes her approach as distilling the essence of vernacular buildings into contemporary architecture
AJ Climate Champions podcast: Philippe Madec on sustainable development
‘All architecture is political,’ says architect and urban designer Philippe Madec, a co-founder of France’s growing ‘frugal’ architecture movement
AJ Climate Champions podcast: How France is pioneering contemporary architecture built from straw, hemp and thatch
Natural materials expert Dominique Gauzin-Müller describes France’s growing movement to build in straw, hemp and thatch with a contemporary aesthetic
AJ Climate Champions podcast: Why France is increasingly building with bio-renewable materials
French architect and natural materials expert Dominique Gauzin-Müller describes France’s growing ‘frugal’ architecture movement
AJ Climate Champions podcast: Justin McGuirk on the Design Museum’s Waste Age exhibition
This week Climate Champions brings you inspiration for the holidays and practical tips for the new year