A hundred years ago, whooping cough killed more than one in every hundred children born in Europe. Eighty years ago, two women in Grand Rapids, Michigan, developed the vaccine that stopped it. All it took was years of working evenings and weekends, an army of volunteer healthcare workers and lab technicians funded by donations from …
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An exploration of the different methods of energy modelling in our homes and how they can be used to inform work on decarbonisation and tackling energy poverty and health issues. Thinking about accuracy, granularity, what’s ‘good enough’ and how and if modelling matches measured reality and lived experience. Given by Marianne Heaslip, Technical Director, PeoplePowered Retrofit.