rich 1.0 Action Network https://actionnetwork.org <link href='https://actionnetwork.org/css/style-embed-v3.css' rel='stylesheet' type='text/css' /><script src='https://actionnetwork.org/widgets/v6/event/fuel-for-thought-24?format=js&source=widget'></script><div id='can-event-area-fuel-for-thought-24' style='width: 100%'><!-- this div is the target for our HTML insertion --></div> Energy for All https://actionnetwork.org/groups/energy-for-all https://can2-prod.s3.amazonaws.com/events/photos/003/130/204/normal/Logo_Banner_Fuel_For_Thought(2).png Fuel For Thought from fuel poverty to climate justice Fuel For Thought is a series of monthly collective learning sessions run by Fuel Poverty Action. A space to share research and lived experience, tackle lies, clear up confusion and answer questions. Making retrofit work: for warm homes, good jobs and a safer climate. 21 May, 6.30 PM. Government attempts at improving homes have scandalously failed and destroyed lives in the process. Shoddy jobs cost families their life savings, irreparably damaged homes, and worsened insulation, leading to even higher bills than before. Whereas for workers, badly targeted and unambitious subsidies made for precarious jobs in the small businesses that dominate the sector. Yet upgrading homes with properly installed insulation and low energy heating technologies, is still the best way to lower energy consumption and bills. It's the answer to coming back to comfortable homes, with energy-spending that’s under control. And if appropriately resourced and delivered at scale, home improvements can create lots of high-skilled jobs in every region, to contribute to a fairer, safer and more sustainable future. Join us on Fuel For Thought to talk about the failure of government retrofit, and overhauling it with a long-term, mass public programme delivered by a skilled and unionised public sector workforce. With a focus on the importance of retrofitting for the climate and why policy should be shaped by workers and Trade Unions. Cost-of-living, job insecurity, conflicts, and climate change all link back to our reliance on fossil fuels. An effective response to these crises requires a retrofit programme shaped by workers and Trade Unions, and answerable to communities. The benefits are too big to forgo, it’s time to make retrofit work for us! Confirmed speakers: Ellen Robottom | Unite member, CACC Steering Group member and author of the energy chapter in CACCTU’s “Climate Jobs: Building a Workforce for the Climate Emergency.” Ellen will speak to the importance of retrofit for climate. Prof Linda Clarke | Emeritus professor at Westminster Business School and a researcher at the Centre for the Study of the Production of the Built Environment (ProBE) specializing in labour, vocational education and training, diversity, and industrial relations in construction across Europe. Linda will speak to remedying national retrofitting efforts with special attention to training and delivery. Glyn Oliver | Chair of the Unite Community National Housing Group, on why retrofit is a trade union issue and what Unite Community is currently doing. https://actionnetwork.org/events/fuel-for-thought-24