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Oct. 27, 2021 - Retrofitting homes to fight climate change
10/27/2021 | 1m 15sVideo has Closed Captions
The carbon fight’s mundane frontier: Retrofitting homes and buildings.
Doing the work to make old buildings more energy efficient isn’t as sexy as filling our roads with electric cars, but these smaller efforts are making a difference.
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Crosscut Now
Oct. 27, 2021 - Retrofitting homes to fight climate change
10/27/2021 | 1m 15sVideo has Closed Captions
Doing the work to make old buildings more energy efficient isn’t as sexy as filling our roads with electric cars, but these smaller efforts are making a difference.
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Making old buildings more energy efficient, isn't as sexy as putting electric cars on our roads.
But these efforts are making a difference in the fight to decarbonize Cascadia.
Just ask Portland resident, Francisco Ramos.
InvestigateWest reports that his family's 1944 house previously had no insulation.
Relying on several space heaters and a window AC unit throughout the year drove their electric bills to more than $300 per month.
Thanks to funding from the Energy Trust of Oregon, a nonprofit funded by the states taxpayers.
The Ramos home was upgraded with an electric heat pump and weatherization at no cost to the family.
This cut their electric bills in half, and it's a model other states are looking at.
Often overlooked buildings are second only to transportation as a source of greenhouse gases in Washington, Oregon, and British Columbia.
I'm Starla Sampaco, find the full InvestigateWest story on crosscut.com.
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