Andy Love On Cooling The UK: Buildings, Shade, & Heat Resilience

We spend most of our time in the built environment. If it's not designed with climate change in mind, then we all stand to lose. Our health, our wellbeing, our productivity — all can suffer if we're confined to spaces that can't handle higher temperatures.

Today's guest is working on multiple fronts to make the built environment more climate resilient. Andy Love is the Co-Founder of the sustainability consultancy Love Design Studio and community interest company Shade the UK. Through these organizations, he's pushing for changes in how buildings are designed, with an eye on promoting livable, climate-adapted spaces that center the people living in them.

He joins the pod to talk about the projects he's led on the dangers of heat in the UK — and the policies and design solutions that could help people cope better. He also unpacks the barriers to cooling Britain down and even dives into this summer's big question: should Brits embrace air conditioning?

🔗Links:

Read 'Building Heat-Resilient Neighbourhoods' from Shade the UK HERE

Read the 'Overheating Adaptation Guide for Homes' HERE

Read the Cooling Roadmap for the Greater London Authority and C40 Cities HERE

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