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Green Buildings: Cooking Without Gas

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Climate One

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4.7585 Ratings

🗓️ 9 December 2022

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

It’s become common for homeowners to install solar panels to provide themselves with emission-free electricity. But increasingly more attention is being paid to decarbonizing things inside the home – the machines that heat and cool water and air, dry our clothes and cook our food. The Inflation Reduction Act includes many ways for homeowners and renters to start to electrify their lives. And in some places, builders are developing highly efficient, all electric homes from the get-go. What more is needed to make our buildings greener and get away from fossil fuels? Guests: Mark Chambers, Sr. Director Building Emissions & Community Resilience, White House Council on Environmental Quality Bruce Nilles, Executive Director, Climate Imperative Contributing Producer: Cody Short, WBHM For show notes and related links, visit ClimateOne.org Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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This is Climate One. I'm Ariana Brocious. Until recently, many of us may not have realized that one of our biggest fossil fuel uses happens inside our homes.

0:40.3

Every minute of every day, 365 days a year, there is a new gas customer added to the gas distribution system.

0:48.3

From a climate perspective, that is known as losing.

0:51.3

But there are better options available to decarbonize our homes and buildings.

0:56.0

We are not in the business of preserving our way of life.

1:00.0

We are in the business, those of us in the climate, the business of changing the way we live.

1:05.0

How can a new influx of federal money help democratize this transition and help those who have been left on the sidelines before.

1:11.8

If we are working towards a clean energy future, if we're working towards a decarbonized future,

1:19.1

then we have to make sure that everyone is part of the process by which we get there.

1:26.0

It's become commonplace for homeowners to install solar panels to provide themselves

1:30.2

with emission-free electricity. But increasingly, more attention is being paid to decarbonizing

1:35.8

appliances inside the home, the machines that heat and cool water and air, dry our clothes,

1:42.3

and cook our food. The Inflation Reduction Act includes many incentives for homeowners and renters to electrify

1:48.2

their lives and should be a huge boost in getting that transition underway.

1:53.0

In some places, builders are developing highly efficient all-electric homes from the get-go.

1:58.3

But this process will take time and be an evolution in how we approach building

2:02.6

new homes and businesses. Bruce Nillis is Executive Director of Climate Imperative, a foundation

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