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Podcast: Arts & Ideas
Episode: Green Thinking: Energy
Description: Is district heating, not boilers, the answer to lowering our energy use? How should we think of decommissioned factories? Professor Frank Trentmann and Dr Ben Anderson explain the concept of district heating and how cities need to adapt to be more sustainable.Frank Trentmann is Professor of History at Birkbeck, University of London, where he is the principal investigator of the Material Cultures of Energy project.You can find more information at:
http://www7.bbk.ac.uk/mce/about/ Dr Ben Anderson is a Senior Lecturer in Environmental History at Keele University. He...