Browsing Theses by Subject "embodied energy"
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Exploring the Environmental Impact of A Residential Life Cycle, Including Retrofits: Ecological Footprint Application to A Life Cycle Analysis Framework in Ontario
(University of Waterloo, 2012-01-24)The residential sector is recognized as a major energy consumer and thus a significant contributor to climate change. Rather than focus only on current energy consumption and the associated emissions, there is a need to ... -
The Re-amortization Act: A Material Durational Agenda for Conservation
(University of Waterloo, 2021-05-12)With the urgency of the climate crisis, we need to begin thinking of new systems that properly value the existing embodied energy invested in Toronto’s built forms, challenging existing neoliberal patterns of development, ...