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I Turned My House Into A Zero Carbon Utopia - by Leah Stokes with comments from Canada, South Africa, and USA

Leah Stokes -- Eric Jelinski -- Geert de Vries -- John Shanahan
2023
theatlantic.com The Atlantic Magazine
Here is an example of a home in Nepal that does not use fossil fuels. They process and burn cow dung dried on the outside walls of the house, collected and plastered on the wall by hand. "Green" professors in North America and Europe have a long way to go before they completely stop using fossil fuels.

Last April, I decided to break up with my gas company. It wasn’t me; it was them. Like so many other fossil-fuel companies, SoCalGas was lobbying against clean energy while it continued to spew carbon pollution into the atmosphere. Yet here I was, an academic who had devoted my life to advancing clean energy, still paying them money, month after month. I’d had enough.

COMMENTS by Eric Jelinski, nuclear, chemical, mechanical engineer and university lecturer - Canada, Geert de Vries, mechanical engineer, physicist - South Africa and John Shanahan, civil engineer - USA.