Home heating: Technologies, practices and prospects. Matt Lipson

Posted on October 21, 2013

Home heating accounts for a significant proportion of energy use in the UK. In this talk, Matt discussed options and possibilities for home heating, now and in the future.

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Interview with Elizabeth Shove

Posted on October 3, 2013

Professor Elizabeth Shove, Co-Director of DEMAND and Professor of Sociology at Lancaster University, gave a seminar on “The Dynamics of Energy, Mobility and Demand” on Wednesday 9th October 2013. Organised by Tyndall Manchester. Professor Shove will “introduce some of the core ideas that underpin the DEMAND Research Centre. The Centre is designed to tackle fundamental questions about…

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Reading Group: 2 October 2013

Posted on October 3, 2013

The second virtual reading group went well with 4 people in Lancaster and 5 on Skype. Some technical teething problems aside, we managed to have a good discussion of the reading 'Energy and the Evolution of Culture' by Leslie A. White.   (more…)

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Reading Group: 25 July 2013

Posted on October 3, 2013

The first experimental virtual reading group went well with 4 people in Lancaster and 3 on Skype. Some technical teething problems aside, we managed to have a pretty flowing and interesting discussion of the reading ‘Energy and Equity' by Ivan Illich. (more…)

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EUED Centres Transport Day, 26 September 2013

Posted on September 26, 2013

Greg Marsden organised a really useful meeting to present and compare ‘transport’ related projects from three EUED Centres: the Centre for Energy Epidemiology, UCL; Centre for Innovation and Energy Demand, Sussex/Oxford/Manchester and DEMAND. Other participants included Simon Roberts and Liz Halsted from TfL and Dominique Bertin from EDF UK R&D Centre. Further details.

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