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When Waste Disappears, or More Waste Please!
Energy-from-waste plants in places like Britain were designed help reduce waste and carbon emissions, but they have had unintended side-effects.
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Energizing the Spaces of Everyday Life: Learning from the Past for a Sustainable Future
This volume of Perspectives offers case studies of energy transitions within everyday environments over the last two centuries, from Europe to South Asia, to North and Latin America.
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What Consumers in the Past Tell Us about Future Energyscapes
Taylor and Chappells examine changing material cultures of energy in Britain and Canada.
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How Households Shape Energy Transitions: Canada’s Great Transformation
Ruth Sandwell examines people’s energy-related experiences in the transition from the organic to the mineral fuel regime in Canada.
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Who Generates Demand for Sustainable Energy Transitions? Geothermal Heating in Reykjavík
Odinn Melsted traces Reykjavík’s transition from coal to geothermal energy.
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Climate-Sensitive Architecture as a Blueprint: Habits, Shades, and the Irresistible Staircase
Daniel Barber explores alternative visions of modernity in architectural projects in Brazil from the 1930s and 1940s that embraced, rather than excluded, climate.
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Women and Energy
This volume of Perspectives offers a collection of largely untold stories that demonstrate women’s agency in energy transitions.
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Gender and Agency in the Anthropocene: Energy, Women, and the Home in Twentieth-Century Britain
Taylor examines the conflicts faced by women during energy transitions as professionals in energy management and as primary managers of domestic energy use.
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Rethinking the Agency of Women in Energy Management: Early British Debates on Electrification
Gooday challenges established assumptions about the inevitability of modern energy decisions and places the agency of women in the foreground of domestic electrification.
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Switching from the Master to the Mistress: A Women’s Guide to Powering Up the Home
The author explores how the first professional women decorators in Britain helped women gain agency in the home.