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"When Nathan Howard and his wife Leslie Wright started electrifying their
Southeast Portland home in 2018, they were learning by doing. They hired a
builder friend who helped them renovate their 102-year-old house with an eye to
decarbonizing, and they brought in an expert in hydronic heating and cooling,
John Sorenson. But it wasn’t until Howard reached out to a new nonprofit called
ElectrifyPDX that he realized he was on a mission.
“I didn’t understand that the crown jewel of the whole process was gonna be
getting everything to the point where I could call Northwest Natural and have
our house disconnected from the gas,” says Howard, who is director of
operations at psilocybin training program InnerTrek.
“An ElectrifyPDX member wrote something about how we take it for granted that
this noxious gas is pumped right into our homes,” he says. At the time, natural
gas was seen as a miracle, the article said, but now the research is in.
Studies show that houses with gas-burning appliances lead to higher childhood
asthma rates. In fact, 13 percent of all childhood asthma cases are caused by
gas stove pollution, according to one recent peer-reviewed study. “The big
thing for me, as an expectant father, is not wanting to increase the chances
that our kids have asthma just because we have a gas stove,” says Howard."
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
