DeepSummary
In this episode of the Climate Changers podcast, host Flavz interviews Joe Petroni, an architect and creator of the online course 'Climate Proof Your Home.' Joe discusses how he was inspired to create the course due to the increasing impact of heat waves and the need for existing homeowners to adapt their homes to the effects of climate change.
The course curriculum covers three main modules: 'Listen' (understanding the context of your land and home), 'Learn' (the theory behind retrofitting for climate change), and 'Activate' (creating strategies for retrofitting, activating your land, and engaging your neighborhood). Joe emphasizes the importance of collaborating with nature and harnessing the potential of the land.
Joe shares some low-cost tips for homeowners, such as installing eaves to block sunlight, utilizing cross-ventilation, and incorporating vegetation around the home. He also discusses his background in permaculture and regenerative architecture, which aims to create a mutually positive relationship between buildings and nature.
Key Episodes Takeaways
- Homeowners can adapt their homes to climate change by understanding their local environment, retrofitting their homes, and collaborating with nature.
- Low-cost tips for homeowners include installing eaves to block sunlight, utilizing cross-ventilation, and incorporating vegetation around the home.
- Permaculture and regenerative architecture aim to create a mutually positive relationship between buildings and nature.
- The online course 'Climate Proof Your Home' teaches homeowners strategies for adapting their homes to climate change through a curriculum focused on listening, learning, and activating.
- Reconnecting with one's home and rebuilding a relationship with it can be an emotional aspect of adapting to climate change.
- Engaging with and activating one's neighborhood can lead to both adaptation and mitigation efforts.
- Understanding the context of one's land and bioregion is crucial for effective climate adaptation.
- Collaborating with nature and harnessing the potential of the land is more effective than relying solely on technology.
Top Episodes Quotes
- “As with many other things, that looking beyond the house and collaborating with nature, harnessing the lands potential is crucial. No amount of technology can help us fight nature, but with a tiny bit of wisdom, we can learn to collaborate with it.“ by Joe Petroni
- “Well, when, quite simply, when permaculture, in a way, it gave way to regenerative agriculture. So did my practice evolve from what is called perm architecture? It's a mouthful, but it does what it says on the tin to into regenerative architecture. And we don't know what it is yet, honestly, but we're making it up as we go along.“ by Joe Petroni
- “And what's beautiful about it is that it stems from the idea that we can do better than just less bad buildings, we can do better than less of an impact. It stems from the idea that we and nature can have a mutually positive relationship, and it's been proven by millions and billions of years.“ by Joe Petroni
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Episode Information
Climate Changers
Ryan Flahive
11/16/23
Jo is an architect specialized in green home design and passive solar strategies. That means, the things you can do to your house that don't cost money running them (unlike your aircon).
You can find out more about Jo's projects here:
https://maven.com/jopetroni/climateproof
https://thecarbonalmanac.org/connect-the-dots
https://jopetroni.substack.com/