{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"Zero Ambitions Podcast","title":"Natural materials, healthier homes, and the culture of sustainable building, with Will Kirkman (Ecomerchant)","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":4575,"description":"We enjoyed the company of Ecomerchant’s Will Kirkman a business that's specialised in sustainable and natural building materials for the building trade and consumers.\n\nWe mainly rambled our way around the culture of building in the UK, how embodied carbon has always been on the Ecomerchant agenda and the impact that sustainable and natural building materials have on the buildings they make and the people who occupy them.\n\nNotes from the show\nWill on LinkedIn\nThe Ecomerchant website\nThe We Build Eco website\nStewart Lee's taxi driver argument\nUBS white paper: Rethink, rebuild, reimagine (on laying the foundation for better buildings)\nUBS  report: Retrofit revolution\nUBS report: Under one roof (opportunities for public and private stakeholders to decarbonize the global building sector)\nUBS report: Building society (looking at the social opportunity of retrofitting and the relationship between retrofitting and area regeneration)\n\n\n**SOME SELF-PROMOTING CALLS TO ACTION**\nWe don't actually earn anything from this, and it's quite a lot of work, so we have to promote the day jobs.\nFollow us on the Zero Ambitions LinkedIn page\nJeff, Alex, and Dan about websites, branding, and communications - zap@eiux.agency; Everything is User Experience\nSubscribe and advertise with Passive House Plus (UK edition here too)\nCheck Lloyd's Substack: Carbon Upfront\nJoin ACAN\nJoin the AECB \nJoin the IGBC\nCheck out Her Own Space, the renovation and retrofit platform for women (but not in a patronizing way)\n\n**END OF SELF-PROMOTING CALLS TO ACTION**","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/imp-PGTK0p-Yir06lCKyRzcHa9UWxL7NtYiXEdkSiXw/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS9zaG93/LzI2NDY5LzE2OTYy/ODc4ODAtYXJ0d29y/ay5qcGc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}