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Tag: Paul Stoller
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Time to prepare cooling centres in Australia?
Heatwaves with record-setting peaks, duration, and timing are becoming more and more familiar around the world. Last week, the European Union’s Copernicus Climate Change Service declared that June–August – the northern hemisphere summer – was the hottest such period since records began in 1940, topping the previous record by a significant margin. In Phoenix, Arizona, […]
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Project Drawdown aiming for better than net zero
Project Drawdown has announced two launches and the plan to host its second international conference as a virtual event early next year. It will also be a focus locally, with a panel session in AIRAH’s Outlook 2020 International HVAC&R Conference. Founded in 2014, Project Drawdown is a non-profit organisation that seeks to help the world […]
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What COVID-19 is teaching us about resilience
Over the past month, Australia’s measures to control the spread of the coronavirus have profoundly changed the way we interact with the built environment. In simple terms, it has meant people spending the majority of their day at home rather than another workplace. But, according to members of AIRAH’s Resilience Special Technical Group (STG), it […]